A young journalist who is still alive (I will not name him) wrote two advance notices which were intended to pave the way for the failure of my work.
At the last moment the director saw that he had been on the wrong tack and that he might have a success.

As they had played fairyland in the theatre in the Square des-Arts-et-Metiers, he had at hand all the needed material to give me a luxurious stage-setting without great expense.
Mlle.

Caroline Salla was given the part of Helene.

With her beauty and magnificent voice she was certainly remarkable.

But the passages which had been written for the light high soprano of Madame Carvalho were poorly adapted for a dramatic soprano.