Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-04-23
ANNA CAROLLA.


changing words with the othel
employees who passed in, keeping
the while sharp lookout for th,
manager. One of these choru,
singers, a young and beautiful
italian girl, standing just within
the extreme entrance, with her
mantle wrapped close about hei
throat, suddenly remarked:
ave must do our best tonight
for the Emperor is coming"
"Is he! How do you know
Who told you, Anna Carolla 2"
"One of the band," answered
Anna Carolla, quietly. "Carl Ros-
enfeldt. There he comes with his
VIOLIN"
With some others of the opera
band there approached tall, hand
some, young Hungarian, who paus-
ed to answer the girls eager in
quiry:
"Had he said the Emperor was
coming!"
eyes; the Imperial Guards have
just passed by to take up their
place at the grand entrance. The
ho,co mill ba o,o,uIoJ
Then passing inside, he stopped
to whisper to Anpa Carolla, with
a smile in his deep blue eyes.
"Anna, / lead the violins tonight. !
Stendgal is ILL.,"
She put her hand in his with the
sweet, perfect trust of one who
knows she is loved.
81 am sorry for him; but for
you, Carl, my heart must be glad"
"Here they come together p cried
a girl outside-"the manager and
the chief d'orchestre. Away I"
The new leader of the band hur-
ried away as the chorus trouped
in, and Anna Carolla followed them
into their dressing-room. There
she soon donned her stage dress,
and slipped away to see the house
filling, and above all to hear every
note of the exquisite overture to
Oberon. Z
How fast every place was filling
from floor to gallery. The audi
forum was one blaze of splendor,
and as she gazed, the poor friend
less chorus singer, whose dramatic
talent and splendid voice ought, if
she had only the fortune to get the
first lift, to place her high on the
lyric stage, wondered if such
chance would ever come to her
If not, Carl's father would never
consent to their marriage. And
now the whole house arose as the
Emperor entered his box, splendid {
ly dressed, glittering with jewels of I
rare value, which flashed thou
sand rays as he bowed right and {
left with his usual courteous grace.
Then the band struck up the over |
ture, and with the last bar the cur |
tain drew up. O
Fitting here and there during {
he performance with eyes and ears D
or everything. the manager noticed b
he Imperial visitor indicating to a
gentleman beside him some one L
n the chorus. IL was Anna Carolla, s.
vhose beauty had attracted his eye, a
those rich voice his ear had caught u
bove and through all the others. Ell
The first act went splendidly, and
ne second act soon commenced u
ut fate had decreed that il should w
ever be played out that night. q
[alf way through, as the manager,
leased and complacent, was stand
q back in one of the wings, he ".
lddenly felt his left arm grasped, "
I'd turned sharply to see Anna ~
srolla's lovely face, so full of de- a"
and character, at his ~
ie. u"
"Hush !" she said, very low and :.
ietly; snake no EXPLANATIONS, '''
{ go and see to IL before It gains v"
is discovered. The theatre is y"
fire somewhere back of the pe'
The company can 10Y
ve by the stage door. Co." 20
Bat, child, II there is the least .
{ Of alarm, look at that honse. Car
" will be crushed TO death in as
r terror and crowding to get -
Ros
LISTEN" said the italian, in the rare
. calm, self contained manner A