The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-07-26

play for her. to be produced season after
| next.
The London newspapers are raving over
an electrical ballet now a hit at one of
the leading theatres. They credit IL 10
Edison or Loie Fuller. The truth Is il Is
duplication of the electric dance which
iNlaw a. Erlanger presented In Chris
and the Wonderful Lamp last season.
Frank Mckee begins the rehearsals, of
his musical farce. Hodge. Podge a. Co.
I'm which Peter IT, DAILY will star, August
2d. Christie Mcdonald, who is temporarily
playing I'm 1.-THE Cadet Girl" will have an
Important part in this piece.
The trick mechanical elephant Marc
Klaw purchased I'm Europe for "The Rog-
ers Brothers I'm Central Park" is as large
as the late lamented Jumbo"
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1t Is not strictly true that Rita Elandi,
who has been engaged as leading So
prano for the English company at the
Metropolitan. has never been heard In
her own country in opera. Her name Is
Groom and she comes from Cleveland
Ohio. and most OF her career has been
spent I'm England. There she was men,
ber OF the Carl Rosa Opera Company,
and appeared I'm various other perform
ances OF opera given In England. But
Miss Elandi sang in her own country be-
fore that time. She appeared first I'm New
York on Oct. ., 1893. at the Garden Thea
tire as Santuzza I'm "Cavaleria Rusti-
cana" under the management OF Gustav
Heinrich: her associates were at that
time Alfred Guile, Giuseppe Campanari
and Selma Kronoldt Miss Elandi also
appeared i'm Faust and in one or two
other operas given during the two weeks
sf al.
singers have like her become known III
England where their own country heard
very little about them Ella Russell,
popular singer in London and In the
provincial towns, has never been heard
here in opera. although she has large
repertoire. Zelie de Lussan made
greater reputation I'm England than she
ever did here. IL stood her In good stead,
for she returned as full-iedged prima
donna to the Metropolitan. Miss Elandi
Is fortunate to get the opportunity TO re-
turn here, as most of her compatriots,
however successful they may be abroad,
are usually willing to return at the first
intimation that their presence is desired
at a satisfactory sum.
Mabelle Gilman. who is just now en-
joying in London the same sort of success
that went to Edna May two years ago,
has astonshed one OF the London inter-
viewers, who found her quite unlike the
ordinary American actress because she
neither spoke with the nasal twang,
chewed gum nor sprinkled her converse
ton with strange and picturesque Am
erican slang. Nothing seems 10 have sur
prised this particular interviewer so much
as the lack of the qualities apparently
connected i'm the English mind with
American actors. Miss Gilman used 10
make New York audiences shudder oc-
casionally by the reverberations of her
RS. but i'm other particulars her speech
might not have shocked an English au-
d'ence by it's pronounccd Amoricanism.
At all events. II is fair to say that her
demeanor off the stage which caused such
surprise to the y 'glish world comrafe
favorably with that of the average Eng
glish actress who comes to this country.
1T may be true that ait of them do not
drop their his and speak with rich
cockpey accent that could never have
originated outside of Whitechapel scat
ter their dyed yellow locks i'm confusion
all over their heads and dress with a
tasteless shabbiness that is almost patht-
tic. Not all of them may be addicted to
these peculiarities. but IL is true that
most of them arc and any exception to-
this rule would create the same astonish-
ment that Miss Gilman's qualities did In
London.