Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1923, Page 11

SINGERS OF 0. 5. VIE " FOR WORLD HONORS Five Making Debut With Met- ropolitan Company This Year. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 80.—Amer- fcan singers are beginning to vie seri- ously with Italians and Germans for honors on the operatic stage, accord- ing to musiacl critics, who declare that Americans have won spurs of stardom not only with opera com- Papies abroad but also with the Met- ropolitan Opera Company, which for many vears has been a stronghold for forelgn talent. Five American singers are making thelr debut this year at the Metro- politan, which recently began its fortieth season of grand opera at the famous Broadway opera house, which has heard the finest vocal efforts of Caruso, Melba, Calve, Scott! and many other internationally famous foreign singers, Miss Nanette Guilford, eighteen Years old, of New York, who made her debut in a part of “Rigoletto,” Is one of the youngest sopranos ever to come to the Metropolitan, Two other American sopranos ars Miss Louise |y, Hunter studiea Phradie gperatic role: hile teaching muslc e State Teachers' College at Kirksville, Mo. o Other Newcomers. Other American newcomers are Miss Merle Alcock, also of Missourl, and Lawrence Tibbett of Bakersville, Calif., who made his concert debut in Los Angeles and won & prize at the San Francisco exposition in 1815, Misg Alcock I8 a solo contralto and Mr. Tibbett a baritone. The presence on the board of the Metropolitan’s stage of Americans ¥ho have joined the company during the pust few years evoked memories when Europe held undisputed sway there. Veteran opera goers recalled the first opening night of the Metropol- itan October 22, 1383, when Christine Nilsson sang the principal role In “Faust” and Adeiina Tattl was sing- ing downtown at the Academy of Musfe. From then until the early German opera and German held sway. ng that decade artists w! were to become the of Ohio, who and’ Mrs. various names names throughout there—Melba, Calve, Scalchl, the brothers d cona, Plancon, Vignas, Sembrich, Homer, Reiss, Journey, Fremstad and others. Coming of Caruwo. Nordiea, Reszke, An-. Castlemary, Scotti, GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT |SHOWS ENGLAND BEHIND TRACED BACK TO INDIANS Highway Improvement in Amer- {cas Initiated by Tribes of Co- lombia, Archeologist Says. By tho Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 30.—The good ronds movement in the Americas had its inception at least 500 years ago among the Indlans of Colombla, Dr. J. Alden Mason, archeologist attached to the Fleld Museum, here, has found. Long before white people had any thoughts about the two American con- tinents the Indians of Colombla were walking on paved streets, according to Dr. Mason, reporting on his re- cent visit to that country. And at that time the road builders, instead of building to keep their feet dry, are said by the report to have been inspired in all probability by a desire to keep off tlcks which Infest the territory. Dr. Mason found streets paved with stone running in all directions on the sites of prehistorle Indlan villages. He brought back large guantities of relies showlng the old inHabitants to have been especlally skilled in the making of beads and gold ornaments, The pottery made by the aboriginal Indians of the district, Dr. Mason said, was among the finest to be found anywhere on the continent. — nearly twice what it was two dec- ades ago. Each performance during the twenty-four weeka' season of opera this fall and winter will represent an aggregate cost of from $12,000 to $13,000, while before the war the cost s! 00, Twent s about years Operagoers who flock to opening nights of new productions face the consummation of long weeks of work representing a financlal outlay of from $50,000 to $70. Although the stars of the world- famous company are being paid sal- arles commensurate with the gen. eral increase in expenses. officials of the company sald the greatest in- crease in expenses.had been in “Inci- dentals” or in the materlal appur- tenances of the operas both on and off the stage. The season at the opera, once six- teen wecks, Is now twenty-four, one week more than last year. The pro gram for the current year includas seven revivals and three entirely new operas, while more than fifty new scenes have been added to the back stage properties at an expense In pro- portion with the increased cost of labor. The sway and popularity of the opera among music lovers and social leaders ia on the increase rather than the wane, it was declared by opera offi , wh said this y subscription [ist $75,000 gr than that of 1 And then, in 1903, Caruso the in- comparable came and swept all before him, and shortly afterward Farrar Joined the ranks. These twin stars twinkled brightly in the operatic firmament for many years, and then came the lamented death of Caruso and the retirement of Farrar from the Metropolitan to the concert stage. The public has not ac claimed the artine! Tosca and Gigli, while Farrar's being sung by Jeritza. 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