Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-29

turned angler III MS Clu age, ana Wnen a FL
caro- reporter went to interview him he found
fishing for gudgeon on the river side. He
confessed, by-the-by, that he never caught
anything.
The editor Of the Intransigeant processes
to believe that Boulangism will rise from it's
ashes and vows he will not desert the gen.
eral. "At first said he, II backed him,
not because he was al organizer Of war, but
of the national defense. Later helped HIM
because he embodied the hatred of the par
liamentary system"
The editor of the Lanterne, lately the
staunchest of Boulangists, says: "Now
we are alive to the changed feeling of the
country. We have watched the abortion Of
this campaign with the deepest interest. 1t
began so marvellously and might have had
such grand results, but from the day when
the plebiscatory element prevailed In the
Boulangist councils, the dissolution of the
party and its final failure struck us as in
evitable. We are throwing over republican
ism to leap blindly into plebiscatory and
CHsarean adventures"
The Temps, Debats, Matin and other mod
crate republican papers don't mince matters.
They agree in declaring that the general Is
not to be defeated but crusted. The Liberte,
in more courteous, grateful tones, echoes this
opinion.
Frances Maynard, the clear-sighted edi-
tor of the Figaro, after hesitating for a
month, now says: General Boulanger now
is on the road to a probable Boulangist cata-
clysm."
'In politics, as in other things,' frankly
adds Maynard, sit is best to be honest. To
hide ones royalism or Comparison beneath
a Boulangist mask is not only an imprudence,
as people are beginning to see, but a confess
sion of the impotence and unpopularity of
| of the principles one pretends to be defend
ing"
Dramatic and musical interest in Paris
still centers in the Conservatoire During
the week the little theatre in which the pub
lie competitions are progressing, has been
packed with hot, excited crowds. The un-
happy Jurors have had a terrible time, and
one trcmbles for their skins at the thought
of all the male and female enemies they have
made through their decisions.
Ambrose Thomas, director of the Con-
servatoire, kindly took us behind the scenes
| into the Judgment chamber the other day
and had a hurried chat with me about the
concourse. "There are about seven hundred
students at the Conservatoire at present."
said he, "many of whom will do it credit
especially in the opera and piano classes.
I cannot say, however, that any this
| year strike me as Exceptionally gifted
| either in the vocal or instrumental
| sections. There are fewer foreign students
now than formerly. We have been obliged
to limit the number. Several Americans of
promise are amongst them. The American
singers who come here seem to have ma
turally good voices and work hard to i'm
prove them. 1 think the piaaoists did bril-.
liantly at this examination, but 1 don't
expect much of our harpistA" Then duty
| called and the composer had to leave me.
Soon after 1 had a delightful talk with Mas
| ScuCU IOuhS, euS popuioi ~ NAohoh,
"Marie,' "Mandeleine' and L Cid"
eyes, said he, "we have had to limit the
number Of foreign students to two
in each class, but still they form
about a fifth of the total, and any
one may attend our classes. We have stu.
dents from all countries-English, Americans,
Spaniards, Belgians, Italians. myself had
several brilliant American pupils in my com
position class. The brightest was
Lucien Lambert, an advanced must
clan of Wagnarian tendencies not 9
mere writer of pretty ballads like SC
many. l hope great things of him. We have
had American instrumentalists and sing
ers at the Conservatoire, but, alas, l cam,
recall names-your dreadful foreign names
Stay, 1 remember one singer-Miss Moor
Miss Griswold, l think, was also 6
pupil. AS a rule American versers
astonish rather than charm the French ear
quisite and accomplished artists, but the,
lack something. Their pure and crystalline
soprano don't quite touch our
hearts. They lack passion. I have
been struck, too, by the superiorit.
of the American soprano over the American
Mezzo. Yes, it is strange you have no com
poser yet, while the English have so many
Admirable composers they are too, especial,
Cowen, Frederick, Clay, Arthur and Sulli
van. How delightful those Tennyson song,
of Governs are and what a pity it seems tina
such a fine musician as Sullivan should b
content to write operatta.n
"You will have composers in time,'' adde,
Massent. "You are a young nation. VIVA
do / think of Italian Composersl There ar
hardly any real Italians left among them
Verdi himself and all the rest, are growing
German. All follow Wagner. So, to b,
sure, do we Frenchmen more or less. /, lik
the rest"
Apropos continued. Massent, II am nov
writing a work especially to suit a youn
American artist, Miss Sibyl Sanderso
Landy, who will startle us all some day. Sh
is an exceptional singer, another Nilsson, an
she has that very touch Of passion W