Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-05-08
As for Van Zandt, she must do more than

As for Van Zandt, she must do more than
regain Partisan popularity. That jury trial
made woman Of the girl. and, trust
more earnest artist. She must consider her
work more decply-as work, not play. She
must not think to ''eat her cake and keep it,
must give up gay society. take constant, con-
scentiouS care of herself, husband her
strength and 80 come up to her place i'll art,
which is a hishe~ one than even she has ever
claimed. Delicate and dainty as she is
there are great possibilities i'll her
voice. 1t has in the upper notes a
lovely, airy, lark-like quality, which
takes one UP with it ito heavens gate"
easily. gently. without hitch or a jar. Bril-
liant vocal exercises which with others of
her guild are tours de force, seem with her
half-unconscious play. do not say that if
she KEGS on she will he the second Patti"
am irorally weary of hearing that proclaimed
Of s;r::.r after singer We hear it said of
son" '"rr Young aspiia ants. and afterwards
not; more said. They are, perhaps,
sino; ~ under their imaginary llurels.
am l.. 49, Il to believe that the empress
queen --l,i l;na-will hold on to her crown to
the Ia I. and that it Will be buried with her
Our Princess Iarie has gifts enough. is orig
inal enough. TO lie the second" of nobody. 10
copy nobody, to suggest nobody but herself.
Let her be, and make it worth while to be,
the first Van Zandt"
To-day II Monde Artstico brings us news
of another great success of our countryworian
at ST. Petersburg i'll Diuurah, a part which
She invests with wild. strange grace an al
most weird charm. a sweet madness, gay, vet
most pathetic. Again the theatre was crowd
ed and the enthusiasm unbounlied SO 'All
is well that ends we'll" Had it not been for
these cOnSoliEg triumphs | might have cnti-
tied this article The Done to-Death Diva. or
the Pteous story Of Prima Donna"
The same musical Journal records a won
derful farewell ovation given and almost
royal honors paid to another American
singer at Warsaw, Miss Ella Russell, a ma
tive, think, of Cleveland, and a pupil of
La Grange-a pretty, graceful and gifted
young woman, who has been for several sea-
sons on the lyric stage, but of late has been
winning fresh and more abundant larrels
like to record such things. for in this toll
some and uncertain career, MANY are called"
or think they are called, but few are
chosen"
have written more than first thought OF
writing of Marie Van Zandt have been led
on by my Indignation as n woman, and An
American woman, over the outrageous trent
ment she has received, and also by my per-
sonal interest i'll my subject. remember her
as | saw her tirst-a little girl. merry and
restless, whom patient artist mother was
trying to teach, but who preferred to
sing as the birds sung. She was then
delicate child-and she is still delicate So
fral has she looked for the past year that
many feared the worst for her health when
they heard of that disastrous night in Paris
For some weeks before she had been suffer
ing from nervous prostration. Once she
had tainted on the stage. She had anxieties
and strange misgivings in regard to the
new role, though everybody said she would
make an exquisite Rosina. An obstinate
presentiment that the part would in some way
bring her ill luck worried and wore on her
till the night came, and justified and full
AMI retirement at Fontainbleau, when she
may have thought of poor Napoleon and his
abdication she had to make a long journey
into strange, uncongenial clime-to brave
the critics and public Of st. Petersburg with
that clond upon her. As we know, she went
calamity through the acknowledgement
the battle on the Neva, and was victorious.
That she was able to do all this after all
she had suffered in mind and body is to me
proof not only Of admirable courage AMI
strength of will, but of an admirable method
the BEST most reliable method in the world
the method of the first master of singing in
the world. Francesca Lampcrti. But Of that
method and of this great master | wish to
speak more fully at a more convenient seq
son. GRACE GREENWOOD