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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er them. They are awakenedby the Dew Man, and go for breakfastto the house of the Witch, who plansto eat them; but when she opens theoven to see if it is hot enough to cookHans, she herself is pushed in byGretchen. ACT I The scene is laid in the house ofPeter, where the two children arebusily working—Hansel making broomsand Gretel knitting a stocking. Grere/be-gins the old German folk-song Susie,What is the News? with its nonsenseabout the geese going barefoot becauseof their lack of shoes. Hansel, think-ing more of his stomach than of thefeet of the geese, asks when they are likely to have something to eat. Little Gretel reproveshim for making a fuss about something which cannot be helped. He says he will not workany more, and proposes that they dance instead. Gretel is delighted, and teaches him the steps. Dance of the Children By Sousas Band 1 7103 10-inch, $0.75 Suse, liebe Suse (Little Susie !) By Alma Gluck, Soprano, and Louise Homer, Contralto (In German) 88418 12-inch, $3.00
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THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

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