Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-02-20

The American baritone, Mr., Sidney
Biden, gave a recital in Berlin last
month, which was favorably comment
ed on.
Nine Gadski has brought suit against
Clarence Graf to recover $1,000, the
amount she claims is due her for con-
cert tour made last season.
George AIDE is to write the book and
John Philip Sousa the music for new
musical comedy in which De Wolf
Hopper will be seen next summer.
Since the opening Of the new Eolian
hall In London that city has in Its
central part, room for 90 concerts a
week-l6 a day--a situation full of ter
ror for the musical critics.
Lillian Blauvelt. whom Salt Lakers
may have the good fortune to hear next
month. Is singing to houses Of large
size on the Pacific coast, and Incident
ally making sure her calling for future
return to the cities OF the Golden West.
Madame NordIca will give series Of
Wagner recltals at Carnegie hall, in
March, In conjunction with Walter
Damrosch and the New York SYM
phony orchestra, Madame Nordica has
not appeared on the concert stage In
New York for several years,
Word comes from New York that
Calves Carmen" has grown cold. she
probably has been doing In the Metro
poitan Opera House what she did in
San Francisco, says the Chronicle Of
that dramatically aesthetic city-not
taking the trouble TO make a fire.
Lillian Russell, now with Weber q
FIELDS, Is waxing ambitious once again.
II Is stated she may be at the head OF
her own opera company next year. The
story is that she Will star with her own
money, made out Of energy given to
her present employers for some years
past, and that she will star In Victor
Herbert production.
Mrs. Roosevelt was one Of the en-
thusIastic auditors at the Washington
opening OF Henry w. Savages Grand
Opera company last week. The entire
marked by audiences not alone numer-
lcaly large but of uncommonly dlstln-
guIshed quality, Several OF the foreign
legations reserved boxes for each
change OF program.
A correspondent writes from Ken
lucky saying that the Blue Grass coun-
try has been entertained OF late by a
musical production called I'm Old Vir-
ginia," which Is looked upon as quite
new, but which this authority alleges
Is almost a complete duplicate Of John
Brougham's great buresquc OF "Po-
cahontas," which was produced In New
York before the war.
A new overture by Carl GodmarlS
] was produced ut the sixth concert of
| the Philharmonic Society Of Vienna,
under the direction Of Ernst Won
Schuch. II was received with great en-
| thusiasn. and the critics predict that
| II will nj once begin triumphal tour
| through the worlds concert halls, II Ia
entitled IN Italy" and Is full Of life
and local color. Everybody was sur
prlsed by the melodlc freshness and the
exuberant animal spirits displayed In
this work, for Godmark will soon be
| rs years old The audience tried hard
| TO make Herr Won Schuch repeat II,
Alice Nelson, according to reports
| from Naples. has made distinct hit
| there In grand opera, She appeared In
"Traviata" recently and was so en-
Enthusiastically received that the queen
sent for the singer and decorated her.
Miss Nelson's beautiful voice Is well
known 10 American theater-goers, al
| though her efforts here were confined Ia
| comic opera. She has been abroad for
nearly three years now continuing her
musical studies, and her success In
| Naples looks as II the time was most
prohtably employed.
Marion Winchester. the American
dancer who has been appearing In the
various Partisan houses the past year,
| Is reported to be engaged to Count
Robert a. ID, Orenty, scion OF one Of
the Oldest families IN Belgium, Miss
Winchester used to be looked upon as
an ordinary dancer IN the cheap thea
ters throughout the country Suddenly
she burst before New York audience
In a new dance that won instant app