The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-27
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and attendants To ride on, telling them
] he viii sound his horn when he wants
/ them. Hans, happy in a discovery he
has made in Logs cottage, creeps forth
Just i'm time 10 hear the order. IL fires
! his brain with plan Tor revenge that
/ takes form q moment later when Logs,
who has absented himself during the
stay of the hunters, reappears.
Giselle, catching sight OF Logs, runs
/ toward him and makes him dance with
/ her. The peasant girls join him. Hans,
/ tormenIed by his great Jealousy,
throws himself in the midst of the
merry throng. and cries out 10 Giselle
that Logs has deceived her: that. in
stead of a simple peasant, her lover is
a lord IN disguise, and to prove what
he says he produces a mobiles sword
and hat he has stolen from Logs
chamber LOys. furious. dashes to-
ward Hans, but the latter evades him
by running behind the peasants. Then
/ Albert goes 10 Giselle's side and en-
deavors TO calm her. Giselle still be-
I leves; she is again happy.
But Hans wishes To pursue his re-
Venge 10 the end. He recalls the order
given by the prince to his attendants:
and, seiZing his hunting horn. he
sounds it. Hunters ana villagers rush
{
Giselle's cottage. Waving the nat
and sword, Hans point to Albert, who
is near Giselle, and all recognize in
Logs. Duke Albert. and bow low to
him. Giselle at the sight of this, real
lies at last that her fiance has deceived
her.
The prince draws near Duke Albert
and asks for explanations Giselle
shrinks from him with dread; she runs
toward her cabin, throws herself in
her mothers arms.
Bathilde, who has come out with
Berthe 10 learn the cause of the ex-
element. is surprised at finding her
unwilling fiance. Duke Albert, in the
garb OF d peasant. and demands eX-
plantations.
Giselle has understood it all In a
sudden parOxysm of despair She be-
comes violently insane. She cries, She
laughs! She grasps Albert's hand,
presses IL against her heart, then re-
pels II with horror She picks up his
sword from the floor, first mechanical
~, then she wants to throw herself on
its point. Duke Albert runs toward
her and snatches the sword from her.
After short pause, Giselle's dis
Jfessed, distracted mind reverts TO the
dance She seems TO hear the JOYFUL
tune 70 which she was dancing with
Logs few brief minutes before. She
does mad step, but in an instant her
strength seems to leave her. She falls
IN her mothers arms. casts a last look
Al Albert and falls a corpse at the
feet of the Wretched man.
Act ii.
1t is night The moon casts fitful
shadows on the little graveyard where
folk laid Giselle TO her final rest.
Hans, the gamekeeper, haunted by
remOrse. seeks the spot. He passes be-
fore the tomb. marked by a simple
cross. and gives vent 10 his emotions.
Pale mists hang over the lake at the
foot of the hill. Moaning winds sigh
sadly through the forest that sur
rounds this halloWed spot The hour
of midnight is at hand. and Hans, re-
membering the old legend, is over
come by fear and creeps away.
Midnight brings Myrtha, queen of
the forest fairies. She dances alone
first. and then, by a touch OF her mag
lie wand, calls forth the fairies. They
begin 20 dance, but at a sign of the
queen they stop, and Myrtha an
nounces that "a new companion Will
join them that night The fairies of
the forest make a wreath Of flowers
for her. The pale moonlight falls on
GiSclle's grave
Giselle energies from her tomb and
draws near Myrtha. The queen touches
her with her wand-and Giselle is
transformed into a sprite. Wings APP
pear on her delicate shoulders; she
scarcely touches the earth now. She
begins TO dance.
A noise is heard and the fairies fade
away.
Duke Albert appears. followed by his
esquire, Wilfried. The duke is sad
and pale The death of Giselle has
caused him to almost lose his mind.
He slowly approaches Giselle's grave.
plunged i'm deep thought. Wilfried
pleads with him not to stop near this
fatal spot but Albert orders him
away.
Once alone, Duke Albert gives him
self up 10 his sadness. He weeps. sud
denly a divine vision appears before
his eyes He recognizes in this vision
GiSelle who cOntemplates. him with
pitying love
albert still doubts; he thinks his
eyes deceive him. Giselle remains
motionless; she calls him by looks
only and Albert. as though bewitched,1
draws nearer and nearer. But as he
extends his arms toward her, she es-
capes from him, floating through the
air. She is already far from him and
is again calling him. in vain. Albert
endeaVOFS 10 reach her Al last broken