Tetrazzini a chance to sing the bell song.

Altogether I know of no more singular history than that of "Lakme" in New York.
Lakme is a child of the theatrical boards, who inherited traits from several predecessors, the strongest being those deriving from Aida and Selika.

Like the former, she loves a man whom her father believes to be the arch enemy of his native land, and, like her, she is the means of betraying him into the hands of the avenger.

Like the heroine of Meyerbeer's posthumous opera, she has a fatal acquaintance with tropical botany and uses her knowledge to her own destruction.

Her scientific attainments are on about the same plane as her amiability, her abnormal sense of filial duty, and her musical accomplishments.