Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-12

IGENTtNl act position which Madame Eames
- may justly claim in the song
world. On Wednesday night she labored
under the difficulty OF hoarseness, which
may account for her uncertain intonation
She couldn't seem to place her voice with
that minute understanding which we have
come to expect from singers with her great
reputation The way she switched her
program around was dsconcerting We
especially wanted to hear the Mozart aria
and the duet from Hamlet" but we had
to be satisfied with less ambitious numbers
Madame Games is the most radiantly beau
tiful creature that one could wish to see.
In her gown of silver brocade, relieved
with splashes of soft pink, she was GER
tainly vision of loneliness. Her shoulders
are superb and the poise OF her head is such
as few queens can lay claim to. She is
combination of voice and beauty, with
beauty as the prime factor. This statement
Is not in disparagement of her voice in the
least, for 1t is one of the great ones and
II she had warm, sympathetic person
atty, the magic conditions would be COM
plete. She is cold, she lacks in tempera-
mental power. Once in a blue moon is one
individual endowed with all the gifts.
health, voice, beauty. intelligence and tenn
permanent; the FIVE essentials 70 the per-
tectlon or genius In a singer.
-
II transpires that Games was wretched
with cold on Wednesday night; also she
was not at all pleased with the size of
her audience. She remarked rather caus-
ucally: I've sung in barns before, but
they were full" II these autocratic prima
donnss could only get II into their heads
that when they, sing in a fifty-year-old
western city thew IL
missionary work. and owe us the very best
that is in them, how much pleasanter it
would be. The enthusiastic, appreciatiye
audience which greeted Eames was more
or a compliment to her greatness than
many a larger house in a more metropolitan
city. Neither must we be Judged on the
Mother Goose" order. Melba sang US
Bessie and Buddy and Dorothy May as
an encore. II hurts yet Eames respected
our intelligence. Oh. why didn't she sing
those two beautiful numbers which the
people whom she loves TO sing TO can hear
so many times, while we may not have
another opportunity! Anyway, the concert
was a red letter occasion and one long TO
be treasured in memory. Which artist
could we forget? Certainly not Eames; a
thousand times not De Gorgoza, and. indeed
not Holman, with deep-voiced cello. his
art and his genial personality.
Mr.. Chase reports hne success with his
subscription list and sends the following
program which will be performed on No
Yemoer 2 at the Lyric by Nine Shotwell-
Piper, Nine. Fiske, Mr.. Bispham and Mr..
Kelly Cole. 1t is a pleasure to note that
there viii be short miscellaneous. pro-
gram before the Shakespeare Song Cycle:"
PROGRAM
Madame ShotWell-Pip sonrano. Mode,
Katharine Fisk, contralto; Mr.. Kelley Cole
Tenor Tenor Mr.. David Bispham, baritone; Ethel
PART L
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Mr. David Bispham.
AM MOI OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Bemberls
| u, That We, Too Were Maying -. Nevin
Nine. Katharine Fisk.
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Mr.. Kelley Cole.
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| Nine. Shotwen-Piper.
VINO hnoMsF-..- Max Heinrich
o, For Burst OF Song. .. Frances AlIitsen
Mr.. David Bispham.
PART H.
/ Mrs Grace Wassell's shakespears's Cycle.