The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-30
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From the Excited Woman With Her Camera and Score to the Fashionable Mondahe and Enthusiastic Music Students
 There Is Much to See and Hear
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE.

beautiful creation in Thais, Mauon Lescaut or Boheme-just so long as the loveliest of love duets rose glorlously in linked sweetness long drawn out'-don't you suppose?'
 Certainly" answered Alice Blue but let me show you the type that does care. Look away over there at that fluffy blonde with the chewing gum and the camera. Do you see?''
 "With the row of cream puffs and all those Billy Burke curls hanging so coauettishly from her coiffure?' inquired Ashes of Roses.
 "Yes; that's the one I mean," answered Alice Blue Well now with her music means no more than box of Willard 8 chocolate creams In my species of musi- cal types I label her a hero or heroine worshipper, to whom the music and art world are merely mediums for the ex- presson of the singers personality. She has chosen her seat so that she may beam down on the adorable Walter, and see ev- cry expression of his face and every movement of his musical fingers. She will applaud louder than any one else and VI Miller or MT. Saslavsky, you will hear i her shriek to her next door neighbor, wouldn't she make an ideal JuietteT or Isn't he just too darling and good looking for any use and I wonder when he and Miss Van Der Veer are going to get married and all sorts of things like that"
 And see over there' continued Alice Blue, lis the type In close conversation with her neighbor regarding the American presentations as compared with foreign productions. Their heads close together they are probably saying. Now take the Prize Song from Die Meistersinger when we heard the opera in Dresden you remember it began at 6 o'clock and we had to go without dinner, but we had such cozy supper in our room when we got home Do you think after all that the American orchestras are quito as satis- factory on the whole as those permeated with the German atmosphere? You see what I mean by that type, don't you? And then she'll switch off to something totally nal apropos of music and tell probably of a play of Molieres she heard for the first time in Paris, that reminds her of what they were saying about Ger man orchestras, and mention Coquelin Cadet and Coquelin Aine, and with such a jargon of French and English that you think that you are at Esperanto congress instead of music festival"
 And over there is the camera fiend," laughingly continued Alice Blue. "She had rather have a snap shot of MT. Dam- rosch than a new Buick machine. and she can tell you something about every not able musician whose name can be men, toned. This type is almost ubiquitous. Seat yourself in nearly any favorable To- cality and you may learn all there is to know of the doings of the men and women of the music world. It is sort of g chron- ique scandaleuse, and has many phases. For instance, they'll start like this: There's no use to lose your head about Damrosch; they say he simply adores his wife, or, Why. of course everybody knows that Flames and de Gogorza are perfectly crazy about each other, and that they are going to be married as soon as things can be arranged;' and, Why, of course, Scotti and Geraldine Farrar are engaged, and mercy! They say Mary Gar den Is just wild about a Russian count, and all sorts of things like that. No mat ter how slight the evidence. nor how cold the scent may be, gossip is repeated about
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