A classical operetta of acts. The liberetto was by Mr. Scantisek Storm. by Master's Hammer, a although also a chamber orchestra.
The event place under the slopes of the Krkonose mountains in the summer and of the year 1913, Anno Satanas.
Atrament = a student, occultist and adventurer.
Calamaria = a of Spiritus the landlord, a well known medium.
Clement Bombastus von = the new Jilemnice Captain.
= the Captain's aide-de-camp, and a vile thief
Blether = a groom of castle's and a denouncer.
= a landlord of the Jilemnice inn.
A brief overview of the
We have emerged now in Jilemnice in the year 1913, and, in the period when the of spiritism (brought Bohemia by Etrich as as 1880) is at its peak. At first it had been performed mostly by Kckonse weavers at Trutnov, but it spread all ober the county, and so from the beginnung of the new century, there had been plentiful spiritistic at Semily, Nova Paka, Jelezny Brod and Fielemnice, attended by both young and old - a physician sits there along the undertaker, a clerk by the side of a blacksmith, a thief with a gendarme. The farming, and cosequently, all of the economy is quite being neglected, and the demoralized. is why the new Jilemnice Captain has been appointed. He is supposed to rid authorities of spiritists, who have even refused to pay taxes. On the day Captain is due to take his duties, A Prague named Atrament comes to Jilemnice. He is a free-thinker of a doubtful character, but he is witty. that he is thoroughly interested in spiritism...