Pictures of Act II of the Saturday night performance of Countess Maritza.
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Members of the orchestra |
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A few of the violinists |
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Tassilo (as Torok) is approached by a group of adoring tennis ladies |
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Tassilo tells his fans that he is always ready to serve them |
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Maritza enters to discover Tassilo surrounded by a flirting flock |
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Tassilo answers the phone at Maritza's request |
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Lisa thinks she is chatting with Zsupan, but it is really a silly joke |
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Zsupan enters as Lisa hangs up the phone, laughing at the joke he played on her |
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Zsupan and Lisa discover they both enjoy equally lively humour and are smitten |
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Maritza asks Tassilo to report to her about on estate business (although she only wanted an excuse to be with him) |
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Maritza and Tassilo enjoy each others company |
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Maritza and Tassilo waltz their way into love |
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Maritza and Tassilo end their dance with a song |
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Zsupan and Maritza have a chat |
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Zsupan and the crowd sing about the joys of cabaret night life |
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Maritza tells her guests that she plans on staying for a while |
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Inga Taube, Manja, Priscilla Roberts, Berko and Frank Grant |
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Maritza calls on Tassilo to make arrangements for a grand supper |
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Peter Fries and Popolescu ridicule Tassilo |
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Tassilo speaks to Tschekko while writing a letter to a friend about the insults he must suffer while in disguise |
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Maritza and Tassilo courting 1 |
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Maritza and Tassilo courting 2 |
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Maritza and Tassilo courting 3 |
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Maritza and Tassilo courting 4 |
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As Tassilo and Maritza finish thier love song, Popolescu evesdrops |
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Popolescu attempts to tarnish Tassilo's image by misreading the letter Tassilo wrote and he plants seeds of doubts by telling Maritza that he saw Tassilo and Lisa walking together in an intimate fashion |
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Popolescu tells Maritza the letter is proof that Tassilo is after money, either from her or Lisa! |
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Lisa tells Zsupan that she is over her infatuation with the fool she once fell for |
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Lisa admitts that Zsupan was that fool |
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Lisa and Zsupan openly admit their love, and their desire to be together |
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Berko plays while guests Peter Fries with Lynn Hill, and Raymond and Rita Fromme expertly waltz into the room |
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Berko plays and Maritza sings while surrounded by her guests |
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Maritza, bent on revenge for her mistaken belief of Tassilo's guilt, humiliates him in front of her guests |
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Maritza continues her bitter humiliation of the confused and hurt Tassilo |
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Tassilo is confounded by the treatment he is recieving from Maritza and fights back |
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Berko plays for the heartbroken Tassilo as the guests listen, "Play Gypsy, play with your full might and main..." |
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Lisa enters and embraces her brother, Tassilo, and everyone is shocked to learn of their sibling connection, "Lisa is his sister... Who could have guessed?!" |
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Maritza rejoices at the knowledge that Tassilo's love for her must be real, in light of the revelation that he and Lisa are not only related, but are of noble birth |
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