The modern comic opera is decidedly the metier of the Willard Opera Company. They made a decided success in Falka, and a still greater one in The Beggar Student, which was given on Saturday, the much larger audience present helping, no doubt, to inspire the artists. The theme of the opera much resembles that of the Lady of Lyons; the baffled Saxon Colonel Ollendort dresses up the beggar student as a prince and procures his marriage with the haughty Laura. When the beggar has been stripped morally of his disguise, the gaoler shoots a Saxon sentry, and the supposed Print Kibytski is hailed as Count Simon, the saviour of Pvlaud—unfortunately only temporarily—and all ends happily. The scene being laid ly Cracow, and the period
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