The bold explorers who have reached the remote Opera House,
fought their way past the misanthropic door-keeper, and gained their
seats, are first reduced to a state of mental chaos by the performance
of a maddening overture, and are then fitted to appreciate the play,
which proceeds after the following pattern:
_Act 1. Curtain rises upon a score of Unintelligible Demons_, who sing
this impressive chorus:
"Oh! um um um um
For um um um um
And um um um um
To um um um um."
_Exeunt Demons. Enter_ RUDOLPH THE TEMPTER. _He remarks to the
surrounding scenery_--"ULLERIC'S soul must be mine, or else the dark
abodes of torment await me. I will tempt him. Great Master, appear."
_The Great Master--a major-general of fiends--appears, and, approving
of_ RUDOLPH'S _virtuous resolve, they descend to--well, they descend
below the Erie Building, to drink to his success. Scene changes to_
ULRIC'S _home. Enter_ ULRIC _and family, including Aged Mother, Virtuous
Heroine, Hated Rival, and Demoniac Servant._
ULRIC. "Motherr, this slife is intollerrabble; I will do any thing to
escape frrrom it."
_Enter_ RUDOLPH _and Unintelligible Demons (disguised.) They sing as
before._
"Oh! um um um um," etc.
ULRIC. "The song says terruly. I will go with you, though you were the
fiend himself."
_Consternation on the part of every one. Demoniac Servant remarks, "Ha!
ha!"_ ULRIC _and the Demons sink through the floor.
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