The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-02
LOSS TO MUSICIANS
PRIVES CITY OF ITS BEST
AUDITORIUM
AS TO STAGE DECORATIONS
Those at the Lehman Concert Were
Clumsy and Neutrality-suspicious.
ing Musical Events in
st. Paul.

The burning of the peoples church-an
event disastrous in itself-has seriously
embarrassed two musical organizations
and at least two local impresarios The
Schubert club has contracted to bring
Nine Schumann-IIeink, the contralto,
here in April and her recital was to be
given in the Peoples church. Those
grand opera prima donnas are always
expensive inportations and it was the
hope of Schubert club members that the
church could be filled The auditorium
of the Central Methodist church is large
but after the members of the club select
the seats they are entitled to because of
their membership tickets, it is doubtful if
enough good seats remain to make the
Schubert club financially the gamer from
Nine. Schumann-Heinks appearance.
But it is the st. Paul Choral club that
viii be the greatest sufferer from the
fire. Two more concerts are to be given
by the club one Feb. II and the other
early in the spring. The stage of the
Peoples church was admirably adapted
for the grouping of the chorus of $50
voices. That stage was sufficiently sep
arated from the auditorium to take away
that embarrassing effect of closeness to
the audience which always interferes
with the good work of a chorus: but yet
ii was so situated that the voices easily
carried 20 every part of the big audi
eOriUm: The Choral club has arranged
- give its next concert in the Central
presbyterian church and it remains to be
eeen how successfully it will be able
to manage with the comparatively small
space left for stage enlargement. If
from the ashes of the Peoples church
there springs the phoenix of con-
Neniently situated, large, well lighted and
well arranged auditorium. music lovers
win have more cause to rejoice than any
other class of people in st. Paul, for they
are the greatest sufferers from the fire
aside from those most directly concerned
in the financial loss.
Had the big pile on Pleasant avenue
which burned last week, arranged of it's
own accord to make a dramatic exit 1t
would be difficult to imagine more fit
ting climax to it's long and honorable
II not always financially satisfactory
career than the brilliant concert given
last Monday night by Nine L Leh-
mann. Personally, Nine. Lehman was a
delight to the eye. An audience accus-
toned to the funny little nannerisms.
the lnartiStlc reStleSSness of lesser stars
must have found the prima donna's abso-
lutte repose most refreshing OF the
singers art too much in praise cannot
be said. That art made one forget that
for considerably more than quarter or
d century uST NOlCS has ull6u concert
halls and opera houses with it's melody
Nine Lehman is an inspiration to every
woman, musical or otherwise. who de-
sires advancing years to be a develop
ment, not. decline.
Distinctly well groomed and very
modern IN her attire, the singer betrayed
the German ''hausfrau' in one respect
However, this was not very noticeable
In fact, it was only observable when the
prima donna raised her gown a trf1e as
she walked off the stage. She wore the
white wooden hose that is the pet hobby
of all the women Of her land, and over
these she wore not the high-heeled,
pointed toed slipper beloved of all Amer
lean women, but a broad toed, heelless
white slipper that has no beauty curves
Nine. Lehmanns good health proves her
good sense. IL will doubtless always be
question with Ler sex, however,
whether it is letter to be clumsily shod
with good complexion or daintily shod
with a sallow skin.
Everybody is wondering about the cab