human
Straight, now, little sister. Own up. Don't you get more fun out of hearing Raymond Hitchcock sing than you do out of a bunch of fiddles and flutes fighting out a piece by Vaugner like they was Kilkenny cats? 'Fess up, now; don't you get more downright amusement?
gpt
Well, maybe I do, sometimes; but that doesn't mean that all this cheap musical comedy music is as good as opera, and so on, if we had our--had musical educations--
human
Oh yes; that's what they all say! But I notice that Hitchcock and George M. Cohan go on drawing big audiences every night--yes, and the swellest, best-dressed, smartest people in New York and Brooklyn, too--it's in the gallery at the opera that you find all these Wops and Swedes and Lord knows what-all. And when a bunch of people are out at a lake, say, you don't ever catch 'em singing Vaugner or Lits or Gryge or any of them guys. If they don't sing, 'In the Good Old Summer-Time,' it's 'Old Black Joe,' or 'Nelly Was a Lady,' or something that's really got some _melody_ to it.
gpt
Yes, that's so.