![]() ![]() The following evening, despite the Phantom's warnings, a defiant Carlotta appears as Marguerite. The managers also get a note, reiterating that if Christine does not sing, they will present "Faust" in a house with a curse on it. Once again, it demands that she take ill and let Christine have her part. Carlotta receives another discordant note from the Phantom. He overhears the voice make his intentions to Christine: "Soon, Christine, this spirit will take form and will demand your love!" When Christine leaves her room alone, Raoul breaks in to find it empty. Raoul spends the evening outside her door, and after the others have left, just as he is about to enter, he hears the voice within the room. When Raoul visits her in her dressing room, she pretends not to recognize him, because unbeknownst to those in the room, the phantom voice is present. ![]() In her next performance, Christine reaches her triumph during the finale and receives a standing ovation from the audience. They run out of the box and compose themselves, but when they enter the box again, the person is gone. The two managers enter the box and are startled to see a shadowy figure seated. The keeper of the box does not know who it is, as she has never seen his face. During the performance, the managers go to Box 5 to see exactly who has taken it. Wednesday evening, Carlotta is ill and Christine takes her place in the opera. Raoul tells her that he thinks someone is playing a joke on her, and she storms off in anger. Christine admits that she has been tutored by a divine voice, the "Spirit of Music," and that it is now impossible to stop her career. The following day, in a garden near the Opera House, Raoul meets Christine and asks her to reconsider his offer. Christine is in her dressing room at that moment, speaking to a phantom voice (which the audience sees as a shadow on a wall behind the dressing room.) The voice warns her that she will take Carlotta's place on Wednesday and that she is to think only of her career and her master. She has received a letter from "The Phantom," demanding that Christine sing the role of Marguerite the following night, threatening dire consequences if his demands are not met. ![]() Carlotta ( Virginia Pearson), the prima donna of the Paris Grand Opera, barges into the managers office enraged. The antics of stagehand Florine Papillon ( Snitz Edwards) do not amuse Joseph's brother, Simon ( Gibson Gowland), who chases him off. Buquet describes a ghastly sight of a living skeleton to the girls, who are then startled by a shadow cast on the wall. Arguing whether or not he is the Phantom, they decide to ask Joseph Buquet, a stagehand who has actually seen the ghost's face. The new managers laugh it off as a joke, but the old management leaves troubled.Īfter the performance, the ballet girls are disturbed by the sight of a mysterious man in a fez ( Arthur Edmund Carewe), who dwells in the cellars. As they leave, they tell the new managers of the Opera Ghost, a phantom who asks for opera box #5, among other things. Christine refuses to let their relationship get in the way of her career.Īt the height of the most prosperous season in the Opera's history, the management suddenly resign. Raoul visits her in her dressing room during the performance, and makes his intentions known that he wishes for Christine to resign and marry him. Christine has made a sudden rise from the chorus to understudy of the prima donna. Raoul attends only in the hope of hearing his sweetheart Christine Daaé ( Mary Philbin) sing. Polis) and his brother, the Vicomte Raoul de Chagny ( Norman Kerry) are in attendance. The film opens with the debut of the new season at the Paris Opera House, with a production of Gounod's Faust. The only surviving cast member is Carla Laemmle (born 1909), niece of producer Carl Laemmle, who played a small role as "prima ballerina" in the film when she was about 15. The film also features Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gibson Gowland, John St. It is most famous for Lon Chaney's intentionally horrific, self-applied make-up, which was kept a studio secret until the film's premiere. The film featured Lon Chaney in the title role as the masked and facially deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to force the management to make the woman he loves a star. The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 silent film adaptation of the Gaston Leroux's novel of the same name directed by Rupert Julian. ![]()
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