The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-01
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN

Probably tho New Workers who go to Bay
reuth during the coming summer will take most
pleasure In the appearance there of Iilli Leh-
mann, who is to sing the Brtinnhiides in the
performances OF the trilogy to which the Bay
reuth Theatre will this summer be devoted.
Many Of the other singers to be engaged there
have appeared here in opera. and among these
Is Rosa Sucher, who sang last winter with Wal
ter Damrosch, and established beyond doubt
the regrettable truth that she is now
practically v~oiceless. She will sing Seg-
lnde in Die WalkGre." Marie Brema,
who sang this year with Abbey q Grau, is
to be the FTfckd in the same opera. Gruening
Vogl, now at Munich, and once here under
Anton Seidl; Gerhauser of Carlsruhe. and sew
eral graduates Of the Conservatory at Munich
are to be the tenors. and Perron. the famous
young basso of Dresden. with Plank, Grengg, and
Fredericks. will be among the male singers. The
Na!kyrie are to appear on real horses with
less. The ada will be sung by a niece OF Wag-
ner's. With the exception OF Miss Brema, the
interpretations will be entirely in the hands Of
Felix Motif of Carlsruhe are to be the directors.
The use OF the horses will be a novelty which 1t
is not safe to reckon on. Usually in the Wagner
operas they add, as they do generally on the
stage and most conspicuously SO in operatic
performances. very little effectiveness to the
scene; There are always plenty OF horses on
view IN the performances at the Metropolitan:
49, - s"DNND 'N"s " '" 80 c'' eAeJ
horse" There was one of n peculiarly docile
disposition in the last performance Of " Cot
terdammerung" at the Academy of Music last
week. Throughout all the scenes in which he
appeared nothing could arouse him out of an
aspect of the most utter boredom. He indiffer-
emily Razed at Frau Klafsky and Herr Alvary.
as though he wondered why they were taking on
at such a rate. and occasionally lifted his eyes
to gaze over the footlights at Mr.. Damrosch and
the orchestra. But nothing could apparently
arouse him to any sense OF his own participation
in the scenes OF the opera.
The discovery that the picture of a well-known
woman in New York society had been utilized
as an ad advertisement by a shoe firm Is said to
have made her friends and family indignant.
The most mysterious feature of tho affair con-
cerned the way in which the picture, which was
one taken several years ago in fancy costume.
got into the hands of the firm. For several
have been using photographs of women we'll
known to the public, but they have always
changed the head. 1t was discovered that
patrons in remote towns were enthusiastic
and fervid enough, but the pictures that
accompanied them were rarely, fashion
able in dress or style. So the heads
were put on to the figures of women well dressed
and likely to attract the eye. Several pictures
of society women were used in this way as well
as those OF actresses. Tho effect was good, and
IL was occasionally surprising to read letters
from small Southern and Western towns and to
see the pictures Of the writers attired in the
latest Paris and London modes. One of the pic
beauty who was married u short time ago. and
another was that OF n well-known prima donna.
1t happened that when the society beauty was
married her picture appeared in n number of
figure and dress were seen surrounds ed by heads
that bore no resemblance to each other.