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Scan 164
Voice and violin, 1898
14 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 144. See the scan on archive.org.
1greater part of it ready, but the most essential part is still wanting."
3"What is that?"
5"My beard."
7"But I should imagine you had plenty of choice," and Cherubini pointed to a table whereon a pile of wigs and beards lay in a confused mass.
9"Well, there are fifteen beards that Michelet has sent for me to try, but there is not one of the right colour," ejaculated Martin; and he gave the composer to understand that unless he could procure a beard of the proper tint, his part in the new opera would be a failure.
11It was in vain that Cherubini exhausted his arguments upon the obstinate singer; eight days elapsed before Martin appeared in Lodoiska, with a beard that was in accordance with his tastes.
13Believing that it would be useless to appear under his own name of Michelet, our ballet-dancer violinist changed it to Arthur St. Léon, by which he has been known ever since. How he rose in his career, or where he was taught music and dancing, I do not know; but this I do know, that he was the most charming violinist I ever heard. When at the zenith of his reputation, he was a man of about medium height, thin, but muscular, of good figure, with a long, oval, serious face, bronzed features and dark hair, but not particularly handsome. The principal characteristic in his
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