The Auction and first Performance
Lot 665, ladies and gentlemen:  a papier-mache musical box, in the shape of a barrel-organ.  Attached, the figure of a monkey in Persian robes, playing the cymbals.  This item, discovered in the vaults of the theatre still in working order.
Carlotta in Hannibal
Christine in her first performance
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