The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-31

cal event of the week. Following the
Remenyi concert the opportunity will be
afforded of comparisons between the play
ing by two of the greatest of violinists-
Nine. Crso is regarded as the greatest OF
artists. Her present tour is the first in
the United States for six years. At that
time Nine. Urso took charge of the adj
Vanced violin classes at the National Con-
servatory of America. which restricted
ner public appearances to New York and
vicinity. -Four Years ago she went abroad
returning last fall. She made her reap
pearance at Carnegie Music hall, New
York, last October. 1t was the occasion
of great demonstration from the large
audience which rose to the artistic in its
enthusiasm. Nine. Urso proved again that
she ranks with the greatest vio.inists in
the world She viii be as
sisted in her concert by
Miss Minnie Methot, prima donna sopra
no. Mr.. Edwin H. Douglass tenor and
Mr.. Geo. H Wesley, pianist. Miss Me-
thot comes of a musical family; she is
the grand niece of the late Theodore
Wachtel, the famous German tenor who
visited America twenty-five years ago.
After her last concert tournee in the
United States, she went to Europe where
she remained two years, making a tour
OF the continent and al last stopping in
Paris, where under excellent auspices, she
appeared in many concerts. The severe
and blase Partisan critics were enthusiast
tic in praises of ia tres jolie Americana"
Miss Methot returned in January last to
New York and made her first appearance
at the Apollo Club with great eclat. Miss
MethotS voice is u pure soprano, very
flexible and intensely dramatic. She is
acknowledged to be one of the prettiest
women on the American concert stage.
Mr. Edwin H. Douglass, after an alb
sence OF three years in Europe comes back
to his native America perfected in his
art and with a reputation acquired in the
large centers of Europe as talented sing
er OF German songs, English ballads, and
oratorios. His voice is a lyric tenor Mr.
George Fl. Wesley. one of the
leading young pianists of the
day, came prominently before the
public through his appearances
during past two seasons as solo pianist
with the principal orchastras and con-
certs throughout America. The sale of
reserved seats for the concert will begin
at Solomons Bull street drug store to-
morrow morning.
A theatrical event of special significance
VIII be the presentation on March 3 of
The Prisoner of Zenda by Daniel Froh-
mans company. Not only does the COM
pany contain Isabel Irving, Maude Odel
Howard Gould, Walter Hale and others
from the New York Lyceum theater, but
all OF the scenery costumes and furniture
will be brought with the company, and
the production of this famous and fas-
cinating play will be exactly as given dur
ing the long run at the Lyceum theater,
in New York
One of the patrons of the theater asserts
that theatergoer who is philosophical can
overlook almost anything-except a wo-
mans high hat.
Jessie Bartlett Davis declares that voice
is only a small factor of the many re-
quired to make a singers success. "She
must be possessed of a good physique"
says the contralto of the Bostonians "a
passably attractive face, good health, pow
ers of endurance, application, determine.
ton, musical intelligence and dramatic
instincts. To attain the pinnacle of sue
cess as singer one must be possessed of
the greatest amount of courage, and cour-
age Of peculiar quality--courage to work.
Without it one is sure to fall by the way"