The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-06

ing the season will be Nine. Nellie Melba,
PROFESSIONALLY one of the greatest singers
of the present day. Since her return TO
London from Australia she has sung only
in opera at Covent Garden, but she has
now been engaged to make a concert tour
of the principal cities of America, and her
manager, c. A. Ellis. of Boston, writes TO
this column that she will be heard in this
city. Nine. Melba received a large amount
of money for her last tour of Australia,
her native country, and had been offered a
similar amount for a return tour this sea-
son, but decided to come to America in
stead. Her American tour will begin on
Oct. IL at Montreal. She will travel as
far south as New Orleans and as far west
as Omaha.
Fritzsi Scheff. the pretty German prima
donna, was approached by Director Mailer,
of the Imperial Opera House, Vienna, to
stay abroad under fiattering circumstances if
she could get releasedf from her contract with
Charles B. Dillingham;, but as she has her
heart set on appearing in America in comic
opera, she decided to refuse the offer. Lit
tie FRITZ" as she was called in New York
during her connection with the Metropoli-
tan Opera Company. has been studying her
English to advantage. and hopes to be able
to sing and act her part in her forthcoming
operate venture with only a slight German
accent.
Adelina Patti will sail for America on
Oct. "A. Her manager, Robert Grau, saws
that he is more sanguine than ever that
the forthcoming tour of the famous diva
will be a phenomenally successful one, al
though he will have to pay her at least
100000 for the sixty times she is to sing
in public. ALREADY I have sold outright"
says Mr.. Grau, many of the performances
at a minimum figure of s10,5OO. Under the
terms of our contract, that is the lowest
figure 1 can accept for a concert, as Nine.
Patti is to receive so per cent. of the re-
ceipts when they go above $500"
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Adelaide and Dorothy Meyer, the little
daughters of Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Meyer, will
sing at the concert to be given Tuesday
night at the Flower Mission and Free Kim
dersarten carnival in the new market
house. These children possess unusually
sweet voices, and the elder girl, Adelaide,
was recently offered an engagement on the
professional stage. She will very likely
make her professional debut next season.
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"Moy o San" a japanese lullaby which
opens the third act of the new English
musical comedy, "Girls Will be Girls is
sung with beautiful electrical effects. The
school girls who render the chorus are sup
piled with Illuminated, multi-colored glass
balls, which they toss to one another in the
arkness while interpreting the number.
Polly GuZman, the pretty Boston girl
who abandoned concert work for musical
comedy has. within a year, been promoted
from a minor role to that of prima donna.
She has just been given the principal femi-
nine role in the Eastern production of 1.-THE
Prince of Pilsen"-the part that was said
to nave been offered to Ida Carnahan
feathers, of this city.
Charles Tree, the eminent English BARI
tone, who is soon to tour this country i'm
concert under the management of Loudon
G. Charlton, sang the role of Elijah twenty
three times in Londo last season. fHs
repertoire includes over sixty oratorios and
cantatas, as well as a long list of French,
German, Italian and English songs and
ballads.