The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1913, Page 11

the women all over the house. Fin- and a very good specch it was, too. | One cold not fail to be reminded | clare his love to her, when she confides of the joyous nights at the Manhat-| in tan Opera House when Mr. Ham.-| te merstein was king after he had pre.|forth he devotes himself to helping sented a new opera or a new atar of | Christian's sult, prompts him what to the frst magnitude say and sing In @ serenade of her, gets public is inore than likely, whatever the learned and judicious may think of it, }¢nding only a few hours after the battle LITTLE HAS BEEN ‘FORGOTTEN | Mr. Gatt!-Qasazza has mounted Mr. Damrosch, through his long asso- ciation with the opera and concert | stage, {8 conversant with the works of most composers; “Cyrano” shows that | he has forgotten it rosch was quoted 4 Yon of haunting memories of Nibelungen Ring” 1s uncensctou: that of strains from the olde Posers and of the moderns Debussy and Puccini. The in for which there was a vodlferous de-} ALDA A LOVELY ROXANNE. mand for repetition, to which Mr. Herte | Amato took Cyrano very seriously. would not yield, cannot fail to make oue | After the third act ho was fairly trem think o: “Thais,” for instance, But If there is Ottle originality or spontaniecty about Mr. Damrosch's music, he has put ale gether an admirable piece of folner | work—a bit of musical cabinet-making, The orchestration 1s happy and pleas- ing, and strong enough without be obtrusive. What the music for the! For fifty years aici have pre- singers lacks ix more lyric quality. A | scribed Father John’s Medicine because few good, plain tunes would be wel- | jt is not a patent medicine and because it is pure and wholesome. Cures| colds, prevents ‘pneumonia and con- *|aumption, Builds up the body andj restores those who are run down to ¢ Lord Howard De Wale | health and strength. Free from nerve- One thin Damrosch’s “Cyrano” “. Wins First Night Success Crowded Metropolitan ¢ Opera House Makes a Gala Performance of His Grand Opera in English— Numerous Curtain Calls, Flowers in Profusion and a Speech by the Composer—A Clever Bit of Musical Joiner Work Built Upon a Strong Libretto by W. J. Henderson. BY SYLVESTER RAWLING, |* hile caretuity avotaing the pitfall of ALTER DAMROSGH'S long|°O™!e opera to which Victor Herbert's taped ~ ONG! “Natoma” came so perilously near, he opera, =“Cyrano,”| ras produced a work that at least must sung in English, got its}command respect, and has biased a first public hearing last night at the| Path for Enwiish opera that may be Metronotttan Opera House hefore a| llowed by himectf and others to the capacity: audience that made the oc-| “'#hest pinnacle of casion @ gala one. Not since the|A BRIEF REVIEW OF THE MAIN first night of Puccini's “The Girl of PLOT OF THE STORY. the Golden West" has there been}? ™&2¥ years have passed since shown such enthusiasm. There Were curtain calls too many to count after every act, in one of which Mr. Gatt!Casazza was persuaded to ap-} principal eharacter, Cyrano de Berger: bear—a very rare thing. There were| poet and soldier, philosopher and awag- innumerable flowers sent up on the! seer, gallant and hero, is cursed with ens. Richard Mansfield presented the Rostand drama here and made it familiar to Playgoers that a brief word about the story may not be out of place. The some in simple bouquets and|@" enormous nose, He is in love with in gorgeous set pleces that ie fee “hie tae tachi "aeuanre: exclamations of “Ah!” : see eden aks tle nt” from | ment will make hopeless the task of winning ‘her. After a syccegsful bout at nee with one of her obnoxious ireray De Guiche, he fs about to de- y, Mr, Damrosch made a speech, im. that she loves Christian, a new uit in his Gascony Cadets. Hence- the pat married, and while off at tho war Weites Christian's love letters for him every day, In the end Christian discovers Cyrano's will be dies the ox.|love far Roxanne and that the latter Ot Me, Henders: | which | !0Ves lim only for the intellect whicn iterature but,|!8 C¥rano's, not his, He gets himeeit nd, is written {| Killed, and In @ battle that follows eh that is singable. It is the work| Crane is wounded. In the play, many n, as well as of an author| Years elipse before the death of critic, And that Mr, Dam-j!0 the presence of Roxanne and the dis- win the favor of the osure of thelr mutual love; but in the opera Mir. Henderson brings about the "is in four acts of tive rano” sumptuously and effectively. Dee tememeanee: interlor of the theatre in the Hotel Rourgogne, Ragueneau's pas square in the old Marrais, Par! camp before Arras, and a convent gar- den, the successive scenes, are well painted and set. The costumes are rich and tasteful and the bearing of the actors of old time courtliness, These, Bar Eur ihe IAntueoe oe Ganka [aS doubt, had much to do in arousing I affects him, No daubt the avalmi. |the interest of last night's audience, as T and remembered In ‘a recent interview Mr, Dam- ing that he was, ~/all the subscribers before the season | ends. rmezto, | AMATO EFFECTIVE AS CYRANO; he Meditation from Massariet’s |miing with emotion as he said to me ave never been se absorbed In It to me ri at least, Mr. Damrosch has He has effaced the sans ani of Prv Children of Don." which | deadening drugs or weakening stim: | produced at his 1 ‘ ulants, a fio The Famous $1.50 and $1.00 Simplex Brand Shirts And a Number of Our Own Make $1.50 and $1.00 Shirts. About 260 dozen in all, including plain and pleated negligees—the finest shirts ever offered at such a ridiculously low price. 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I hope I have made it effec tive with the audience.” More of swagwer, perhaps, would have been ac- ceptable, but {t was the poetry and | sentiment of which ie made the most. Im the duel with De Guiche, to his tm- Provised ballad “I touch as I end the refrain,” he was excellent; but he was better In the serenade; and he was best in the death scene, a really moving bit of acting that held the audience bre Jens to the fall of the curtain, His Nah would have been clearer if he had not been afraid of it, At that, it an improvement on his exhtbition the dress rehearsal, and it is bound to Rrow more perfect as he gains confi- dence. Most of his singing was reatiy beautiful. Frances Ala has never risen so high artistically as in her Roxanne, She a lovely vieton, in rich gowns and she- tracting cloaks and hats, and she sang with beautiful clarity, appealing charm ar fine diction. Hers was Bnglie) as Aelightful to hear as {t was understand. able. Riceardo Martin dressed Christian with the care that he always displays in hie costuming, and he acted with realistic effect. It may not be said that he was happy In enunciating Eng- leh, although he was better as the opera proceeded. Hix singing, too, was not as pleasing as it has been of late, It reverted to a certain constricted and ptriden: quality that he showed at his} earlier appearances at the Metropolitan. Putnam Griewold was a handsome De Guiche, his singing admirable, his act- Ing distingutshed, his English perfect. Reiss added another character to his portralt’ gallery with his Ragueneau and sang “How to make almond cheese cake,” to the patter accompaniment of his cooks, with unction. His “Let it) bake adagio” brought forth Irresistible | laughter. Ae to English diction, Will- jam Hinshaw, as Le Bret, was perfect. Not a word of his was lost. | Lambert Murphy as Montfleury and a | THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1918. |the second act, a stirring thing into which Mr. ‘Damrosch has put some of tis most effective writing, After the third act, when Mr. Hender- |#on had been brought before the curtain j With the others, Mr. Damrosch said, in response to calls for a speech, that the last act was the test of an opera and if |the audience wanted to hear him then he would respond. Apparently it did, and Mr. Damrosch made, as was said at the beginning of this article, an .ad- Mirable speech. He paid graceful trv ute to Mr. Henderson, to Mr. Gat Casassa, to Mr. Hertz, to te singers and to the men in the orchestra pit. Then he said that, as hie father, twen- ty-weven years before, had had the honor of beginning the crusade which had established German ra in Amer- fea, he hoped that his “Cyrano” might be @ stepping stone to the establish- ment of English opera in the same way. DOUBLE OPERA BILL GIVEN FOR A MID-LENT MATINEE. “Haensel und Grete" and “Pagtiace!” tn double bill were presented at a #1 cial mid-Lent matinee at the opera house yestentay, The cast of Humper- dinok's charming fairy opera was fa- jroMiar, Inclwting Bella Alten, Marie Mattfeld, Lita Robeson, Rita Fornla, |Stetla de Mette, Lenona Sparkes and Otto Goritz, But there was anot conductor than Alfred Horts, who reserving his strength for “Ci the evening. It was Richard Hag mann, an assistant conductor, who 4 it known a4 @ plano accompaniat |bore himself with credit. In “Pagliacel Karl Jorn was Canio, Dinh Gilly was Tonio and Lucresl CASTORIA| For infants and Children. Cadet sang well. Marie Mattfeld made | Bears the Ht atrongly. Curtis, Florence M Basil Ruysdael, Coral, Austin Hughet Hertz conducted with splend and manifest sympathy. HH. Jules Speck, the stage mani © | made to share in the recalls, |HOPES HE HAS DONE SOME- THING FOR ENGLISH OPERA. 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