A classical operetta of acts. The was written by Mr. Scantisek Storm. Music by Hammer, a promenade although a chamber orchestra.
The event took place under the of the Krkonose mountains in the summer and autumn of the year 1913, Satanas.
Atrament = a student, amateur and adventurer.
Calamaria = a daughter of the landlord, a well known medium.
Bombastus von Satrapold = the new Jilemnice Captain.
Poebeldorf = the Captain's aide-de-camp, and a thief
Blether = a groom of castle's and a denouncer.
= a landlord of the Jilemnice inn.
A brief overview of the
We have now in Jilemnice in the year 1913, and, therefore in the when the popularity of spiritism (brought Bohemia by Etrich as early as 1880) is at its peak. At first it had performed by Kckonse weavers at Trutnov, but soon it spread all ober 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 and old people - a physician sits there along with the undertaker, a clerk by the of a blacksmith, a thief with a gendarme. The farming, and cosequently, all of the economy is quite naturally neglected, and the demoralized. is why the new Jilemnice Captain has been appointed. He is supposed to rid authorities of spiritists, who have even to pay taxes. On the day Captain is due to take over his duties, A Prague named Atrament comes to Jilemnice. He is a free-thinker of a character, but he is extraordinarilly witty. Besides he is thoroughly interested in spiritism...