Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1927, Page 32

b B MARY GARDEN WIN TRIUMPH IN OPERA “Resurrection” Is Vehicle for Singing Actress—Applause Is Given Generously. Mary Garden, with her vital genius as a singing aetress, came to Wash- ington and won additional honors from a large audience in her newest role to local operagoers yesterday aft- ternoon when she sang Katucha in the premiere here of “Resurrection. presented by the Chicago Opera Co.| at Poli’s Theater. There was but one moment When Miss Garden was not on the stage that she was not missed, and that was when Antonio Nicolich, baritone, sang the most beautiful solo music of the afternoon in his one aria fn “he last act, when, as Simonson, he tells his rival, the Prince Dimitri, of his protective love for Katucha. Aside from the overlapping ripples of applause that recalled Miss Garden herself many times at the end of each act or tableau, as the divisions are called in this opera, N lich's alr veceived the only s neous and extremely enthusiastic applause dur- ing the afternoon. Based on Novel. The story of the opera is based upon the novel of the same title written by the great Tolstoi. There are a few changes for the operatic production. Katucha, the heroine, whose full name is Caterina Mikailovna, is flrst seen secure and protected in a home not her own, but that of Mme. Ivanovna, aunt of Prince Dimitri, and the occasion is the welcoming home at Easter time of the young prince, who has been away ever since early childkood, when he and the adopted little Katucha used to play together. In the mutual amazement at the way in which each other has blossomed during that time and in the voluptuous magic of the Spring night, the two young people fall violently in love. In this scene Lorna Doone Jackson, and Alice 'Hermanoy have compara- tively small parts, but sing them well and give good dramatic touches to their characterization. Theodore Rich, a young singer, is the prince. He is very good-looking, somewhat stiff as an actor and gives a .general appear- ance, both in his role and vocally of being rather worried ‘as to what it is all about and entirely “on the surface” in his work. He is by no means a match for the genius that is Mary Garden, Peasants Add Color. The second tableau is entirely Mary Garden’s, although she is given sup- port by Marie Claessens, and a fluctu- ating group of peasants coming and going from the station add much to the asmosphere. An old peasant pair give a pathetic touch of real interest in a slight episode. In this tableau the young Katucha is tasting the bit- terest dregs of disillusionment, and she is despondent and hysterical by turns. In this tableau the music seems most effective during the en- tire opera. There is the undertone of Russian folk song and fine back- ground for the frenzy that is mental torture to the heroine. Katucha is at the railroad station trying to catch| Dimitri on his way to a train, but at the crucial moment she is pushed aside and ignored and the prince, un. knowing that she is there, goes on. ‘The third tableau presents the heroine in -a brothel, where she is brooding over the past and sometimes boasting. The group is bound for Siberia and exile. Katucha is sent up on a false charge, and the woman who really committed the wrong for which Katucha—known in this tab- leau as Maslova—is paying the penal- ty, sends her a small amount of money and some cigarettes. Prince Dimitri finds her here and., over- whelmed with the horror of what has become of his beautiful little Katucha, he learns of their child, now dead, and asks Katucha to marry him. She -jeers and taunts him by curns and .ends with rolling in a drunken stupor at his feet. In the final tableau Katucha has gotten hold of her faculties and looked the whole situation at last fully in the face; she is repentant and philosoph- ical. She has met Simonson, also an exils, who is devoted to her, and she has said she would marry him. Again, at the last moment, Dimitri comes to ask her again to marry him ~--he has a pardon for her, too. How- ever, she is firm that she will marry Simonson and go on with what she believes is a sacrifice worthy of her passion that has’all this while kept a love of Dimitri alive fn her. They ex- change vows of eternal love—she and Dimitri—and then separate, she to go to Siberia and he ieft behind. Music' is Itallan. Alfano’s music for this opera is decidedly Italian and gently melodious; except in the second tableau the stark realism that is Russian and the grip- ping undertow of the powerful story do not seem to come through in the music. Also, there is nothing but the one baritone ajr that would seem iransferrable to the concert stage. But Mary Garden is quite as wonderful as ever and the muitiple facets that she e —————— e e e e e e e — Dog Nearto Death (3 88823 3882228828282 3883 AR BB REAIRRAIBRZIZZZIZBBL8323 =® Lansburgh & Bro. In Fast of 10 Weeks Taken From Cellar By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., February 18.—Almost at the point of death from an enforced fast of 10 weeks, Sappo, a Llewellyn sotter owned by Dexter Rood, was found in the cel- lar of & barn near its home last night by two workmen. The dog. which is 11 years old, had dropped from 54 to 20 pounds and had to be carried home. The veterinaries said the animal probably would live. The dog apparenily jumped into the cellar through a broken win dow the day it disappeared, De- cember 8. Since then a wide search had been made. USE OF PUBLIC SPACE FOR STORAGE PROBED Police Chief Orders City-Wide Sur- vey Relating to Autos and Other Materials. Members of the Metropolitan Police Department were ordered today by Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent, to make a city-wide survey of the use being made of public space for the storage of automobiles or materials of any kind. The police also were di- rected to make particular note of all locations where it has been the cus- tom to, repair automobiles on public property. i The order came as the first step in the campaign of the Commissioners to break up the practice of storing auto- mobiles and materdals of all kinds on public parkings. A committee has been named by the Commissioners to make an investigation of this prac- tice ard recommend actlon to abol- ish it. Maj. Hesse explained in the order that goods, wares and merchandise displayed outside of business premises, under the provisions of existing police regulations, should not be noted in the survey. . MINOR FIRE IN THEATER. Ignition of Broken Film Caused Slight Blaze. “The Igniting of a broken film in the operator's booth of the Empress Theater. 416 Ninth street, caused a minor blaze last night shortly after 10 o'clock. The patrons of the motion picture house filed safely out after being noti- fied by James S. Willlams, box office manager, of 219 Tenth street south. west. The fire was put out quick The amount of damage is as vet undetermined, according to Marcus Notes, proprietor of the theater. e fills with glowing life in the character- ization of Katucha are a revelation sufficient to provide an absorbing three hours of the performance. This matinee of “Resurrection” was the end of the Chicago forces’ current ‘igeason” in Washington. They com- pleted the season in Baltimore last night in a_production of “Tristan und Isolde,” Wagner's superb music drama, under the baton of Glorgio Polacco, the leading conductor of the company, who was so ill with tonsillitis that he had to give up two_perform- ances—one here and one in Baltimore. He was welcomed last night with an ovation by an audience that packed the Lyric Theater in Baltimore to over- flowing capacity and that blazed with all the jewelry. one could ' possibly imagine to Le hung on feminine necks and ears. Bonelli Scores Again. In “Tristan und Isolde” there is music in abundance of glorfous calibre. It is not without reason that many authorities consider this opera to be the greatest plece of music writing ever produced. It was beautifully sung and played last night. Richa Bonelli, the barytone, who won such high-heaped laurels for his singing in “The Masked Ball” in Washington Wednesday night, again almost stole the top honors from the temor and soprano in his fine einging and inter- pretation of Kurvenal in “Tristan.” Elsa Alsen, Junoesque dramatic so- prano, was at her best in her famous role of Isolde. Her singing of the “Liebestod” was worth staying to hear, though the last notes didn’t die away until after 12 o'clock, and those who went from Washington for the performance had to wait until 1:30 o'clock for a train home. Cyrena van Gordon, the American contralto, who is a favorite in Wash- ington, was beautjful and completely in character as Brangaene, the well meaning meddler, who brings so much tragedy in her wake. In the first act in particular Miss van Gor- don sang superbly. Charles Marshall was a fine Tristan, although there were times when one suspected that his volce was not quite of the huge timber demanded by this part. 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