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...fallen. Hector and Achilles are dead. So is the graceful Paris, and by the same curved sword Helen too must die as an atonement to the Greeks. A sorceress learned all this from Muschel, a psychic shell which reported in a bold contralto a vision of Menelaus stealing hugger-mugger into the ship's hold, knife ready. Aithra, the sorceress, had strange powers. Just then she managed a mighty storm to stay the murderer's hand. She blew their ship to bits, dipped them together deep into the sea and brought them up finally on her own Egyptian...
...ensuing deadly hush, he cried: "I protest at the showing of this play in Prague! . . . Many Czechoslovaks, myself included, could have written a better!" Although some who sat near to Playwright Trych applauded his patriotic words, most of the audience took him to be a madman, rushed hugger-mugger from the playhouse...
...Searpias, who wants the lady for himself. The second act will come with his melodramatic crescendoes. Tosca will surrender and Scarpia will supposedly draw up his pardon while Tosca's hand, fumbling, despairing, will find the carving knife on a supper table. She will stab him, steal away hugger-mugger to the condemned Cavaradossi. But Scarpia will have double-crossed her as he has hundreds of performances before, will have served his rival a real execution instead of the blank cartridges promised. And Tosca, her own murder discovered, will jump once more on to the operatic parapet, sing an operatic...
...brother find her fair no longer. Stew Stewa falls in love with another lady. Laca calls on the stepmother. He would marry the girl himself, he says, but damme, he cannot stomach the child. Whereupon the stepmother, on a black winter's night, drugs Jenufa, steals out hugger-mugger into the dark and drowns the bastard in an icy brook. On the day of the marriage feast, the ice thaws, peasants discover a disfigured bundle in the sedge. Step-mother is led off to jail, but iron bars make no cage for her. Her daughter is an Honest Woman...
Jenufa's stepmother, stealing hugger-mugger to the brook...