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For Exhibitor’s information and house organ,— the players and the story
of “LA TOSCA”
THE PLAYERS
La Tosca PAULINE FREDERICK
Baron Scarpia Frank Losee
Mario Cavaradossi .Jules Raucourt
Cesare Angelotti Henry Hebert
Spoletti W. H. Forestelle
Director, Edward Jose
THE STORY
Floria Tosca is a beautiful girl of poor parents, who has been educated and taught to sing by the priests at Rome, until at the opening of the story, she is the idol of the whole city and a high favorite at court.
She is in love with Mario Cavaradossi, a painter who is working at a fresco in the Church of St. Andrea where Tosca meets him every afternoon.
One day while he is waiting there for her, a political refugee from Naples, Cesare Angelotti, hides in the church where his sister has hidden some of her own garments as a disguise. Mario helps him escape before Tosca arrives, although he arouses her jealousy in the delay about opening the door, and because she fancies he has painted a resemblance to another woman in his madonnas.
Meanwhile Baron Scarpia, the chief of police, has discovered Angelotti * s escape from his cell at the castle of St • Angelo , and traces him to the church, where he finds the fan of Angelotti* s sister, which the fugitive had forgotten to take .
That night Scarpia follows Tosca to a fete at the Farnese Palace where he plays upon her jealousy with the fan in an effort to trace Angelotti. His questionings are interrupted, however, by the news that Italy's army has lost a great battle, and the fete is rudely interrupted. Tosca goes to Mario's villa where she has only time to learn the truth about Angelotti *s escape before Scarpia, who has again followed her, appears.
By torturing Mario, Scarpia at last wrings from Tosca the whereabouts of the fugitive. The news comes too late, however, for Angeloti, discouraged, has already committed suicide when Scarpia* s men find him.
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