Identifier: victrolabookofop00vict (find matches)
Title: The Victrola book of the opera : stories of one hundred and twenty operas with seven-hundred illustrations and descriptions of twelve-hundred Victor opera records
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Victor Talking Machine Company Rous, Samuel Holland
Subjects: Operas
Publisher: Camden, N.J. : Victor Talking Machine Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Why not excuse them? They are tired!Plunkett (firmly): Too much kindness will not do. However, even the gruff farmer has realized by this time that these are servant girls ofa most unusual kind, and hesitates to scold them. Plunkett: What names bear you?Harriet and Nancy: We?Lionel: Yes, you!Plunkett: Yes, of course!Harriet: Martha is mine.Lionel: Martha? Plunkett (mimicking her): Ju-oo-olia! Youre proudly namd girl! (With exaggerated courtesy.) Julia! Be kind enough— If your ladyship so please it— (Gruffly) To hang my hat and mantle up!Nancy (indignantly) : Do it yourself! Harriet:Yes! Plunkett (to Nancy): Well, and yours?Nancy (aside to Harriet): (What shall I tell him?)Plunkett: Well, dont you know it?Nancy (hesitatingly) : Ju-ju-julia! Plunkett (taken aback): Bold! by the prophets!Lionel (to Plunkett): Not so bluntly give your orders, Rather wishes breathe, like me: (Very politely) Martha, take these things, prithee! (Harriet takes them, but promptly throws themon the floor.)
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metropolitan setting of the fair scene Presto, presto (Spinning Wheel Quartet) By Frances Alda, Soprano; Josephine Jacoby, Contralto; Enrico Caruso, Tenor; Marcel Journet, Bass (In Italian) 95209 12-inch, $5.00 By Victor Opera Quartet (In English) 70052 12-inch, 1.25 Lionel and Plunkett, astonished at such signs of insubordination, unheard of in servantsof the seventeenth century, decide to learn what accomplishments these strange domesticsdo possess, and request them to show their skill at spinning. 300 VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA-FLOTOWS MARTHA Plunkett: Quick now, fetch the spinning-wheels From out the corner!Harriet and Nancy: Do you want us then to spin?Lionel: Yes, most surely.Plunkett: Do you think That for talking we engagd you?Harriet and Nancy: I la, ha, ha! To see us spinning!Plunkett (angrily): Ha, ha, ha! To see us spinning! If you want your wages paid You must earn them first, my maid. Come and make then a beginning. Fetch the wheels now!Harriet and Nancy (with mock humil

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