. The wastrel hoard; a drama of the greater love. ead. As herhead falls, herlips touch the flag held in herfolded hands. Awakened to consciousness of theflag, she regards it a moment through her tears,raises it slightly in both hands, lets it drop, raises THE WASTREL HOARD. 90 ?ier head, swallows, assumes an attitude of reso-lution, brightens up, und looks for a considerabletime into space, as if into the future, until thefall of the curtain.] CUETAIN. ACT Hi. Before the rising of the curtain, the orchestra playsselections from Madame Butterfly, the Tavan ar-rangement, with emphasis upon and r
. The wastrel hoard; a drama of the greater love. ead. As herhead falls, herlips touch the flag held in herfolded hands. Awakened to consciousness of theflag, she regards it a moment through her tears,raises it slightly in both hands, lets it drop, raises THE WASTREL HOARD. 90 ?ier head, swallows, assumes an attitude of reso-lution, brightens up, und looks for a considerabletime into space, as if into the future, until thefall of the curtain.] CUETAIN. ACT Hi. Before the rising of the curtain, the orchestra playsselections from Madame Butterfly, the Tavan ar-rangement, with emphasis upon and recurrence to themelody of Un bel di vedremo. Andante mdlo calmo. J • . m cu/ - J^ . sfrc • fWCOR-/w del ijlll ^^ via re. MftIDOCINI. And then fbe ihip ep . {war - isg ACT III. The Ante-Chamber of the Hall of Arbitrations of the Palaceof Peace, at The Hague, two years and five months afterthe close of Act II. The stage is divided as in the firstand second Acts, the pi ncipal room being at the backof the stage on a higher level than the Ante-Chamber,and seen through a wide door in the centre of the the bench and extending its full width is an im-pressive symbolic oil painting. It is the allegoricalgroup of the great French painter, Albert Besnard,entitled Peace. A female figure is seen seated, lis-tening to the pleadings of two litigants. One of theseis arguing with vehemence, and the woman lifts ahand to stop him that she may hecr the other are two armed warriors, who, their differenceshaving been settled, ride off in opposite directions. Inthe foreground, and seemingly detached from the restof the composition, the symbolic figure of Peace risesas an apparition carrying a child in her arms. TheHall of Arbitrations is lighted
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