El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-12
Hinc lilac Lachrymae.

The great Scaichl is no longer
great. She scored bad vocal fall
down the other d 4y 10 Denver. at the
Broadway theatre. and it has become
more than ever evident that the once
noted cantatrice is a back number, an
cient history, a magnificent vocal ruin
The Denver Republican says of the
funeral Her worshippers got sa d
blow at the Broadway theatre. Her
voice fell flat, and in only one selec-
ton did she stir the audience - The
sad, sad narrative further states that
there was no soul in her singing,
whereat ''sorrow was expressed in
many faces Again the mortuary
critic in the Denver paper wipes the
fast falling tears from his blurred Op-
tics, as with forced nervous effort he
writes the following Grape trimmed
sentimentsi
! ''Couid it be that superfuous lags
the veteran on the stage must at
length be applied to her who in
formeryea rs II ade the blood Of Europe
flow faster with her magn ficent
voice AMI her rare hist ionic ability ?
There was sigh of relief when some
time later one of the singers appeared
and apolOei lied for the Sca'chi, who
was suffering from cold ard who
also was overcome by high temper
AZURE in her dressing room.
ga feeble attempt was made to en-
core the star for the aria, but it was
scattering and insincere aud she did
not respond.
pointn eut when Nine. Scaichi had
concluded the singing of saliivan's
'Lost Chord" 1t was futile expert
ment on the part of the management
to cater for q few shekels, for it could
not be that Artistic Schalchi had
chosen to put this piece in the pro-
gramme. 1t was written in reverence
and the music is devotional. Scalchi,
who gain d fame by making the
music of Verdi and Meyerbeer glow
and pulsate, cannot bring her voice to
been emotional she was bravuru,
defiant. The audience did not encore
her.
''Thus the first part Of the
programme consisting of concert num-
bers ended coldly. 1t was considered
very unwise to put Scalcbi to singing
"a a concert singer. If her admirers
will Ia don the smile it was like
harnes ing saddle horse to sulky."
However, amid all this suggestion of
''hark from the tOmbs a dOleful sound"
there seems to have besn one little
CLEAN of light, of sunshine to at least
partially lift of burden that was weigh
lug heav ly on the fainting souls of the
admirers of Madame Scalcht, Ike
pig of lead. The critic was able to hail
with delight milady's appearance in
operate act as follows:
"Then a gocd portion of the last
scene from II Trovatore' was given,
with Scalchi as Azucena, and all else
was forgotten. AS the Gyrsy, the
great contralto was Transformed, and
she sang as of old, and the voices
around her were like Gagged song birds
t , a nightingale. So it was not all dis
appointment"
Mcqueen, the te-or, who appeared
with the eX-Diva here, does not seem
to bave done even as we'll as be did in
81 Paso, for he was recei, ed with
'grav. yard silence" in the concert
says. But when it came to opera ic
work, and Mac got on his 10Th century
duds he shook Off his C gar makers
Indian demeanOr, and mad the su-
d:ence imagine he had swallowed
a spring mattress. The audience felt
much relieved AZ wtOoped Mac up for
an encore. The quartet Favored the
audience" with the great quartet from
Rigolet o, but it seems the audience
was ''favOre d" only by very elastic
ope at on of the magma ion, for the
mum Der was but impassivelv given. Ye
Gods a-d little fishes. Singing that
great quartet without spirit. No won
d. 7 it ct ike sOdden dough upon the
stomachs of the audi G,
The only ooe of the company to re-
ceive much of any mplimentary no.
tice was Nile du Betat, or Bedad. Or
Begorrah. or some 9th err FIR. nc h-Ir sh
name. She was the delightful person
who showed her ribs, and collar bones
so charmingly to The audience in El
Paso AID they thought-rot of her voice
but of the lath wall Of q hen pen wav-
ing in aud out with the wind. So the
great Scale ii has fallen, 1t was notic-
ed in her appearance here that her
voice was not any too strong though it's
roundness and melod iousness ss.med