Show FARRAR FARRAR GIVES j jCARMEN I CARMEN VIVID I TOUCH CH OF NA NATURALNESS NATURALNESS' I C Carmen the fascinating and ard I able little gypsy of the opera Carmen written by Georges Bizet has been portrayed portrayed portrayed por por- perhaps most effectively by Gerldine Ger- Ger Farrar tho the famous American prima donna who won fame and praise In Ia this role several years ago Carmen Is a tragic opera in four acts and was first produced at the O era In 1875 The Tile scene Is laid in Seville Spain about the year 1830 The scene opens Ina in ina ina a large square which is used for drillIng drilling drill drill- Ing purposes and Don Jose a handsome Sp Spanish lieutenant is seen in with a detachment of soldiers on the field fleM Near the square Is a cigarette factory and ana the soldiers are waiting for the appearance appearance appearance ap ap- ap- ap of the girls who are ale employed In the factory Soon they appear and among them is Carmen a fascinating but wayward gypsy beauty who perceiving ing lag the han handsome some Done Jose seated alone anI and ana pensive on the bench near by I throws the rose V she h has a in her hair to him I He e catches he heh the h rose O and i glancing Into her eyes at the tho same samo time sh sIt fascinates him and bewitches him with her wild beauty and vivacity A few tew minutes later Micaele l a pretty but plain little girl gill who is his village sweetheart in the little village where he lives with his mother comes to him and tells him of her love and asks him why he does not return home where his mother is waiting for him He has become so infatuated with the little gypsy that Miracle Micaele returns home alone and sad A short time after his first meeting with Carmen Carmen becomes involved In a fight In the factory and Injures another another another an an- other girl and to save her from fram arrest Don Jose connives at her escape and ar arranges arranges arranges ar- ar ranges to meet her at a lone inn in a a. afew afew few hours Carmen goes to the inn where she meets with her people who are in reality a band of smugglers and who whop p persuade her to entice the young oung lieutenant lieutenant lieu lIeu- tenant to their hiding place in the mountain mountains moun moun- I tain and so make him Join them When Don Jose arrives the other gypsies are gone While at the Inn the young lieutenants lieutenant's lieutenants lieutenant's lieu lIeu- tenants tenant's superior of officer ricer comes to him and commands him to Join his company campany While the two are talking Carmen ar arranges arranges arranges ar- ar ranges for some same of her people who are in hiding to attack the soldiers who ac accompanied ac- ac companied the tho superior officer to the inn and during the scrimmage she and DonJose Don DonJose DonJose Jose escape to the mountain retreat of smugglers In act 3 Don Jose Joe is still at the mountain mountain moun moun- tain taia retreat and there is also Escamillo the most popular toreador who has followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol I lowed Carmen there and who Is gradually gradually ally winning Carmen's favor or away away- from II the young oung lieutenant The men have a bitter hatred for each other and many times they are held from killing each other by members member of the gypsy band While there th the thee ever faithful Micaele l who who has followed him from place to to place comes onies to him and tells him of his Ws mothers mother's mothers mother's moth moth- ers er's illness s and h her great desire sl to see sha ha him His heart t softens Ct and he leaves a with Micaele for far tile the little village where I mother lives A short time before I o Escamillo leaves for Seville where he heIs heIs heis Is to bring more glory and honor to hImself himself himself him him- self by a fight with one of af the most fero fera ferocious ious lous fighting bulls of the country and he invites all of them to come and see the fight In Act 4 the crys of the excited spectators spectators spectators spec spec- of arena can be heard as Escamilla Is meeting much success in his fight Just outside of the arena Carmen is Just preparing to enter to witness the fight when Don Jose who Is mad with Jealousy over her attentions to Escamillo confronts confronts confronts con con- fronts her and begs to give the bullfighter bull bullfighter bullfighter fighter up and declare her love for him She haughtily refuses and pitches his ring to him In In scorn acorn His rage and chagrin overcome him and In a fit of frenzied anger he snatches his dagger from Crom his girdle and stabs her to the tho heart Just then the victoriOus us I Escamillo Escamillo Esca- Esca millo rushes from fram the arena In search of his sweet heart eart only onty to discover to-discover her dead deada aj af the feet of D Don n Jose |