Identifier: victrolabookofop00vict (find matches)
Title: The Victrola book of the opera : stories of one hundred and twenty operas with seven-hundred illustrations and descriptions of twelve-hundred Victor opera records
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Victor Talking Machine Company Rous, Samuel Holland
Subjects: Operas
Publisher: Camden, N.J. : Victor Talking Machine Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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FROM AN OLD ENGRAVING Tell Saves Leuthold from the Tyrant VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA—ROSSINIS WILLIAM TELL
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TELL REFUSES TO BOW TO THE TYRANT Gessler, who, with much satisfaction, has been watching the populace bow to the capwhich he has had placed on a pole as a symbol of his authority, suddenly notices that Telland his son fail to pay honor to the standard, and he orders them seized and brought beforehim. He asks if the boy is Tells son, and when Tell replies, My only son, a fiendish ideastrikes the tyrant. He orders Tell to shoot an apple from the boys head on pain of instantdeath for both. Tell refuses, but Jemmy urges his father to obey,saying, Father, remember your skill! Fear not, 1 will not move! Tell embraces his boy, and selecting an arrow, manages toconceal another in his coat. He casts a fierce look at the tyrant,then aims with care and strikes the apple fairly in the centre.When he realizes Jemmy is safe, Tell faints and the concealedarrow is discovered. For whom was the second arrow ? de-mands Gessler. For you, tyrant, if I had harmed my child ! Gessler then orders both put to

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