# Bottoms Up: An Application of the Slapstick to Satire

Author: Nathan, George Jean, 1882-1958

Genre: Category: Humour

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66775

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Bottoms+Up%3A+An+Application+of+the+Slapstick+to+Satire+Nathan&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

At Tonio’s signal, the curtains open disclosing a cross-roads with a rude portable theatre and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt with a party of débutantes. The distant sounds of a cracked trumpet and belabored drum call the peasants together, and they greet with joy the familiar characters in whose costumes Canio, Nedda, and Beppo enter simultaneously with Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont’s party, Mrs. Otto Kahn’s party, Mrs. Goelet, in mauve _faille d’amour_ silk, and a party of young people chaperoned by Mrs. Douglas Robinson. Silencing the crowd (on the stage), Canio announces the play for the evening--and is heard. Canio descends and boxes the ears of Tonio, who loves Nedda. Tonio, and two old gentleme...

## Chapters

- [Act III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bottoms-up-an-application-of-the-slapstick-to-satire-66775/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Act I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bottoms-up-an-application-of-the-slapstick-to-satire-66775/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Act III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bottoms-up-an-application-of-the-slapstick-to-satire-66775/chapters/2/index.md)