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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VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA —THE KINGS CHILDREN
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PHOTO WHITE DEATH OF THE KING S CHILDREN who declared she had deceivedthem in her promise of a new ruler.A troop of children come to begthe Fiddler to lead them in a searchfor the lost Kings Son and hissweetheart, and he gladly con-sents. The Woodcutter and theBroommaker arrive and go into thehut, and hardly has the sound ofthe searching party died awaythan the Kings Son and Goose Girlappear. They are half famishedand beg of the Woodcutter some-thing to eat, and he finally givesthem some poisoned pastry whichhe finds in the hut. The outcastseat it and die, and when the Fiddlerand the children return from theiruseless search they can onlymournfully bear away to the hillsfor burial the bodies of the poorKingly Children. KONIGSKINDER RECORDS (In German) Lieber Spielmann (Dearest Fiddler) Geraldine Farrar, Soprano 88405 12-inch, $3.00 The song of the Broommakers child, who is spokesman for the throng of childrenwho come to the hut in Act III to beg the Fiddler to lead them in a search for

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