A operetta of three acts. The was written by Mr. Scantisek Storm. Music by Hammer, a promenade also a chamber orchestra.
The event took place under the of the Krkonose mountains in the summer and of the year 1913, Anno Satanas.
Atrament = a student, occultist and adventurer.
= a daughter of Spiritus the landlord, a well known medium.
Clement von Satrapold = the new Jilemnice Captain.
Poebeldorf = the Captain's aide-de-camp, and a vile
Blether = a groom of stabled and a denouncer.
Spiritus = a landlord of the inn.
A overview of the liberetto:
We have emerged now in Jilemnice in the 1913, and, therefore in the period the popularity of spiritism (brought Bohemia by Etrich as early as 1880) is at its peak. At first it had performed mostly by Kckonse weavers at Trutnov, but soon it spread all the county, and so from the beginnung of the new century, there had been plentiful spiritistic seances at Semily, Nova Paka, Jelezny and Fielemnice, attended by both young and old - a physician sits there with the undertaker, a clerk by the side of a blacksmith, a thief with a gendarme. The farming, and cosequently, all of the economy is naturally being neglected, and the demoralized. That is why the new Jilemnice Captain has appointed. He is to rid authorities of bothersome spiritists, who have even refused to pay taxes. On the day Captain is due to over his duties, A Prague student named Atrament to Jilemnice. He is a free-thinker of a character, but he is extraordinarilly witty. Besides that he is thoroughly in spiritism...