The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-23

amount OF "protection" in the shape OF
public patronage, and the effort now max
Ing at jackson Mound park to give Men,
phis fixed and permanent summer
amusement resort is deserving OF all en-
couragement. The company now engaged
there gives pleasing interpretations OF ia
vorite light operas, and the degree OF pains
that are taken to gain the approval OF the
public are known only TO those who are
enabled to witness the progress OF prepare
lion which all well presented performances
must first undergo. A faint idea OF the
work involved may be gathered from an
interview had with Miss Charlotte lie
Brun, the capable and efficient musical
director OF the company now playing at
The park:
"You want to know something of the
amount of labor involved in putting
comic opera on the stage" said Miss lie
Brun, thoughtfully, after the object OF the
reporters visit had been made known.
"Well, scarcely know where TO begin.
There's vast amount OF work in this
business, to be sure, and very little time
for rest or recreation. One OF the first
steps is to get good chorus, and then to
begin drilling it. In this particular sum
mer opera companies are at great dlsad-
vantage, being compelled to limit their
choruses to small numbers, and TO pay
proportionately small salaries. At the Ca
sino, in New York, where expense is no
object, they pay chorus singers anywhere
4. q. nd hat
they are usually enabled TO secure people
who can read music, and whom Il is no
trouble TO teach. But in summer opera,
where the salaries are lower, the chorus
singers who can read notes are a rarity,
and we have to teach them like parrots"
next to knowledge OF music, what are
the points most looked for in an nccep,a-
BILE chorus girl?"
Good voices, good faces and good fig
ures. At the Casino face and figure is
sometimes considered more important
than voice. ! have heard OF Rudolf
Arenson Offering young lady SO week
TO stand on the stage and not sing a note,
but she was handsome and had shapely
figure. but such offers are rare. Chorus
girls at the Casino usually know enough
10 read music and learn the score rapid
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