Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1931, Page 95

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—MAY 10, 1931 Grand Opera Heroines By W. E. Hill (Copyright, 1931, by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate.) Mme. Tiney Mutselhauer, the German opera diva, is sing- ing Erda in “Siegfried,” of which we show you ane of the Russian opera heroines have their own troubles, and while _ Yes, this is “La Boheme,” with one of those Saturday night popular- lighter moments,” where Erda_pops up out of the paper- they seldom go wrong, with no mothers to guide them like the priced Mimis, who are usuaily a little healthier looking than the ladies mache rocks and tells Wotan just where he gets off. M’ = ladies in the French and Italian operas, they have just as hard who do their stuff on subscription nights. Mimi has just run in to try is one of those girls who sits at home and broods and s &)m a time of it getting the men folk and their moujiks and their out her little hacking cough on Rudolpho, who is saying. “But. Mimi, you ge‘:s a l;'hance to fl" a word in public. She has a lot to offer boyars away from the vodka jug. are such a big girl to have such a weeny little cough'! when she gets under way. T ITrey - : 3 : “gayiwaras These rollicking choristers are apprentices in one of those big grand These two chorus ladies are dealing with a opera scenes where the public square or the street is overrun with boy situation of great stress in one of the popular urchins who pull hair and poke and play pranks on everybody for the Italian operas—probably “Lucia” or “Rigoletto,” sake of atmosphere. One of the nicest things about life is that there are if we guess rightly. They are telling each other no apprentices or street urchins around like the ones we find in grand that Gilda is the kind of a girl who will come opera. to no good end. An unsung heroine of the past opera season is the opera box guest who hates Wagner and four times out of five is an unwilling Wagnerito. (This is the fifth box party Mrs. Peabody has becr} a§k£q to, and wouldn't you know it would be “Gotterdamerung” again! She’s pinching herself to keep awake, poor girl.) Miss Merle Ogelthorpe, the American soprano, is warbling the voice of the forest bird in the second act of Mr. Wagner's egfried.” Merle hates doing Another heroine of the opera season is the is Brunhilda. This is Grimgerde, a voice ‘,’“ISH(‘ "“-‘“’g she 'Slffa“y a d';"“";; e ladies' retiring room attendant, Mrs. Rose one of the yries in the opera named for those el LML s el s This sweet young girl is one of the “Parsifal” Goldbauer by name, and a hard-working girls, and she is not springing at anything in par- ?ia-m;l Ilnf scenery au%}lc tenor in really big parts flower maidens, and, oh, isn't she being seduction girl she ig ng that ladies don’t leave ticular. She is just up on a scenery rock looking at ike Carmen or Butterfly. itself, hurling cloth roses at Parsifal and calling him their c.guf& s on the carpet and looking the view and wondering if those clouds mean rain. daddy? after one thing or another. U Y