The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-11-30

Music and the d~ebutantes. They have
made the week a merry one. OF course. II
rained and poured the night of the Apollo
CONCERT. Somehow II always does; but no.
body seemed to care. The Odeon was just
exactly as full of pretty clothes on Tues
day as if a full moon were beaming out
side. And how those boys did sing,
The Apollo Club has arrived. No more
trifing with gay little ira Ia la college
glees, and no more noticeable paucity oil
tenor voices. We always knew that some
day they would not disappoint us. and
Tuesday night proved the truth of our
prophecy. The material Is there and Will
Lowry Galloway as somebody calls him,
put It into active service. i have never
heard a finer bit of mems singing in St
Louis than that Saint -Saens "Saitarelle.
which was a frightfully difficult compost
ton and full of the worst sort of pitfalls
foprthe unwary singer. But only wary ones
stood on the platform under the red baby
carriage lights Tuesday night; and they
deserved every bit of the storm of applause
that came unhesitatingly from those VINO
went to cavil and remained to praise.
,One thing 1 was glad to note-that as an
encore after this self-same Saltarelle. Mr.
Galloway made the club sing the climax
again. instead Of switching OF to some
light composition that would be way out
Of focus so far as the atmosphere of the
Saint-Saens music was concerned. AS a
1QQler, Inc IrdRaie N6uO MdCSdithS Sah'
fbuch our own Lulu Kunkel. Anton van
Rooy, big and burly Dutchman. was a
positive treat.
Does everybody have reminiscent operas.
I wonder-operas when you've always had a
thoroughly good time; when the singers
have always been to your liking, and when
even the first bars Of the overture set
your pulses beating with a delight that you
can't define, and don't in the least under
stand? Operas. when even one tune ground
out on a street piano. as you hurry over
Michigan avenue or turn a corner near the
Boston Common. make you stop for ten
seconds and think ack-oh, lots Of things.
Let's talk about the other "dofngs' last
week before 1 wax sentimental.
This is a good time to scold just a little.
And some of the big audience at the Apollo
concert deserve a really severe word Tor
leaving seats after the Carmen encore and
streaming out to the foyer. ! took down
names of fourteen persons who are as well
known socially as Mrs. Cornelius Wander
bilt and Harry Lehr. and this fourteen
we're only a small proportion OF the bad
manners. Really, 1 don't know what to
think of us when we can't sit through the
last number on a short programme as that
of the Apollos, when the programme ex-
pressly stated for all who can read English
that carriages might be ordered at half
after ten-surely none too long for a con-
cert that began at half after eight.
A = iS-ih pidlu tCiLiS~lLs tuuGot PoSSipAS
manners and the grossest impoliteness to
the singers when people surge out before a
last number. as If to say: I'VE don't want
any more. It's time to stop" And let me
tell you something in the privacy of our
own family, which / hope won't be seen by
any one except us, that st. Louis is getting
"a very, very unpleasant reputation about
this rudeness of theater and concert audi
snres. Actor people and other entertainers
have gone away and said things about us
THAT are not nice, but painfully true. When
PERFORMANCE lasts until the edge of mid
night and We have one of those joyful
p webster cars to catch. why, the case diff
sxers. but when we all live, this side of
SEHarest Park. and as 1 said before. the con-
cert is over at a reasonable hour. do let's
rstay in our seats. even IL II hurts us a lit
: lie. Nothing but nervousness, you know.
That's all.
The rapt and breati.sss attention-yes.
hat phrase is overworked. but nothing else
suits SO well-with which the Choral-Sym
phony audience listened on Thanksgiving
{ night shows conclusively that st. Louis,
has developed in most wonderful manner in
its liking for classic Music the last year or
two, and would have made Mrs. Appolline
.sBlsirs heart leap high with joy had she
<been there to witness.
Apropos this same lady, Of whom we are
all more than passing proud. 1 saw in
dozens of Eastern papers last week men
p,tfon of the vast aid exceeding legal knowl-
edge. the keenness of perception. and the
sharpness of wit. with which she presided
rat tine meetings held by. the Board of Lady
Managers. OF stage fright she VOTED not.
and for regally splendid presence she took
the frosting right off the wedding cake"
Comparisons are more or less unfair. but
can't help recalling one or two business
meetings in Chicago when Mrs. Potter Pal
r.o~ ha1 tho phofr and rrhap N claaE- r0ofod
mustached individual sat directly behind the
lady on the platform, to whom she turned
every few minutes to be coached OF rules
OF order.
There wasn't any coaching. masculine or
feminine. last week in New York.
The debutantes at last are having a show.