The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-09-28

Mus. Doc. Racine College for his opera
! Cavaliers Rusticana." 3 clever study IN
| Dagonian numbers which has achieved
great popularity. particularly the Inter
memo. which keeps operagocrs from tread
ing all over each other between the acts
| Other operas have been Romeo ct JUL
cite" Carmen" La File de Nine. An
| got "Boccaocio'' and 'rSieefried," the last
of which has been attributed 10 Wagner.
| tn wonderful range of these Indicates The
thorough mastery of the ompose over the
| grand adaptive and brayura nervurA, IN
| which he is without an equal
| His aida" shows very strongly the in
| nuence OF Verdi. and there are critics who
| have objected TO his Faust" a. being
| reminiscent of Gouncd. but these persons
sre hypercritical and have accepted his
"Tannhauser." which IL thoroughly Wag-
merriam from beginning to end. without com
ment. II is said that "Iohengrin." one OF
his early essays IN German music. Is. on the
1 whole. the most popular opera ever writ
! ten. but there are those whit pronounce
lie Nozze di Figaro" an imitation Of
Mozart. the greater gem HIS "Parsifai"
| is expected to run a hundred nights during
the coming season. merely IS one OF VI.
Grau's novelties
Composer also Of many songs. notable
among which are Sally IN Our Alley"
Some Day in Your Eye" "oh. Promise
Ne That You Won't Sing Again" The
Star-spangied Souxa-s Captain links OF
the Horse Marines" Yankee Doodle"
Columbia. the Gem Of the Ocean" and
Harry b. Smith. Ny B. Smith" q tender
little ballad Of early days In Chicago. His
Rob Roy" an operetta In three aatA four
sharpe and two rests, ran through n whole
season some years ago and his recent
lighter operas. such as Dolly Warden"
Weber and Fields" The Rogers Broth
ers.- Oscar Hammerstsin.- Abe Hum
mel" and Ter Nights With DuS." have
been very popular.
SMITH. HARRY BACHE
The William Shakespeare Of comic opera.
the C1vde Fitch Of musical comedy. and
champion lightweight hbrettist of the
world. Was put on at Buffalo by the
MUSES. OF Comedy In lisa. and has had q
Studied human nature at Buffalo and love
making az Niagara Falls. which accounts
for the ro~bustuosity of his comic char
acters and the honeyed sweetness Of the
sentimental passages Of his operas
After being graduated from the Niagara
College of Honeymoonlng. and taking IN
"a b" at the F1nky Common Academy Of
Humor in the Hotel IroQuois. he ran away
to sea as g stowaway on q canal boat.
where he studied ocean life at close range.
winding up at Chicago while yet a boy
Here he attended the public schools with
Sreat asiduity. learning the English
language frora such masters as Professor
Bathhouse John and Doctor kohisaat end
acquiring an unusual mefricel felicity from
a keenly analytical study of the fyrics OF
the Michigan School Of Poesie under such
eminent masters as Carter Harrison Pot
ter Palmer. Roswell Field and Professor
Triggs OF the Standard on University.
The last named n said TO have observed
Of one CT young Smiths early iyrics that Il
flowed more smoothly than OIL burned bet
ter and left no unpleasant odor In It's train
IA criticism az searching n kindly and
quite as apt as the same gent2emanfs de-
hghtful comments on the works OF Lon
fellow. Shakespeare. John W. Gates and
the Right Reverend Mr. Rockefeller Of New