Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-25
GIRLS OF TODAY ARE TOO LAZY


mo, there are no legitimate sopranos
IN light opera nowadays. said jessie
Bartlett Davis this morning. THE
girls in comic opera, too. are too lazy
They take two or three lessons, know a
graceful step when they come ON the
stage and that is all. 1t Is truth that 1
tell YOU. The Bostonians have been
looking for Marie Stone for the past
.Hve years and we cannot find her
Mrs. Davis looked very eheerily out
On n cold and rather dismal appearing
world this morning. She had been ar
eanging her apartments AZ the brown
and was gazing at a box " violets with
a multitude Of purple ribDohs M per
plexlty. Her photographs were pileu IN
different places and dainty table was
almost covered with roses.
And Mrs. Davis herself made quite a
picture. Her morning gown was a
dreamy creation of blue-iikc the Vio-
lets-and white lace a question
brought up the light opera stage of to-
day and Mrs. Davis,arranging bunch
Of violets. said:
1--WE once sang II TruVatore. Car
men, The bohemian Girl, etc. OF
which / was very fond, We had Marie
Stone with us then, the present MIS-
w. H. Macdonald. She was maSnlh-
cent In the lighter grand operas, ana
when one evening after q performance
she said very decidedly, i shalt not
sing any more we were forced to give
them up and take operas similar 10 our
present repertoire. To sing in an opera
like II Truvatore or The bohemian
Girl 1t takes Il dramatic soprano one
who has to study in Europe under the
very best masters. You cannot get II
dramatic soprano nowadays. We have
been trying for years, but then. as
said, the girls OF today are too lazy"
Mrs Davis laughed DO you know.
the publiG IL funny thng?' she asked
I'm san Francisco just the other week
we produced AN exquisite opera, RIP
Van Winklc. II was very sad and Mr..
Barnabee made a most excellent ttip
Van Wrinkle. as he tottered away after
Ms twenty years sleep. ! had the part
of Dame Wrinkle and the music was
splendid You see the character Is that
of scold and the singing Is high and
then low. In the last act RIP Van
Wrinkle closes with a sad song delivered
In sober fashion. and the public
wouldn't have II. 1'hey wanted some
thing more merry II less pretty.
Tho Serenade, | think, Is beautiful
Fatisma, too, was a beautiful opera
but Robin Hood" There was en-
thusiasm In Mrs. Davis's blue eyes and
the vloets waved to an imaginary bar
of music.
II am all used up in singing FOL
Maine benefits" continued Mrs. Davis
1--WE come to Denver from san Fran
cisco, where we were six weeks. From
New orleans we jumped directly Il
the coast, rehcnrsing on the way Ri
Van Wrinkle This hns been the mos
successful season ever had by th'
company Hereafter we will sing II
ts.FA Ia.
expense and jump from Denver to tn,
coast has been too great We hav'
seventy-five people In the compan!
and special train. II we play Den
yer we must play further west.
81 like Denver. although the altitud
affects my singing. The change o
climate is great, too The sandstorn
of yesterday afternoon made m
throat for awhile very dry, but ! wa
all right In the evening. a newspape
criticism this morning reads that
sang out of tune.
why. / have never done that Il
my life and whoever wrote II wa
bound to say some mean little thin
without rejecting that even IL wa
] sang eight times last week. travele
two days over the mountains and on
ly arrived In Denver at | o'clock yer
terday afternoon. Critics do not re
fleet that singing In different place
six or seven nights a week, week aftc
week, means lot Of sacrifice and
We do well we should get credit AN
not blame or criticism for what som
one may think q false note,
"A season OF travelling like thl
means not only self-sacrince but sc
cial ostracism Many times you
dearest friends want you to do q
other people do. dine with them, m
for a while be n society woman, III
but you can't. Here | have invitation
for four luncheons this week to 1
given In my honor. ! cannot acceI
one because | must he careful of m
voice and my work demands absolu,
rest and discipline"
Mrs. Davis says that Tom Karl, on
of the old managers and partners ,
the Bostoninns. Is now teaching mus
in New York. She thinks that LILA
Russell Ia the most beautiful woma
on the stage but remarks that Mis-
Russell Is becoming very stout b,
cause she is prohibited from exercl,
Ing. You know" said Mrs. Davi
she cannot take two steps out of hC
hotel before n carriage IL at her di,
posal. She cannot walk down an
New York street unless she Is folIowe
by a crowd. She's a pet OF the publ
and she scarcely dares TO 20 into
dry good store Women close aroun
her and block her progress. DENY,
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