The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-28
Mrs. Henry B. Gray Chan
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Incidents of Musical Interest and CeebrteMary Garden and Kubeik's Accompanst- -Worths and Paquins h.
 teresting Ateers-The Hospitale Generale At Vienna
BY DOLLY DALRYMPLE.

Vienna the center of musical affairs or the world. While there I heard one even ing Cinderella and La Bille du Regiment You know, Cinderella is a pantomime per- formance to the wonderful Strauss music, and 1t is really one of the most beautiful things I ever heard I saw Elektra, too, while in Vienna, and it Is the most ter rible. awful thing that I ever beheld. It just makes one shudder 1t is so intense.'
 q can easily imagine that" I replied, flor I remember when I saw Mrs Pat rick Campbell in the play in New York a couple of years ago I considered 1t the most horrible thing I had ever seen on the stage.'
 T expect you will be interested in knowing that in the pension In which we staid in Vienna, Alexander Raab also lived. He was Kubelik's accom- panist at one time having toured Europe with him, and Is one of the most &C., complished pianists have ever heard. He was greatly interested in our rag time music, and our coon songs, and he said so many Americans had promised to send him copies of different pieces, particularly "The Mocking Bird,' but had never done it, so just as soon as l got back to New York I went to Ditson's and got up quite a collection of things for him, includ- ing Amt It a shame Because I'm Mar ried Now and lot of others"
 
 and recreation, too," replied Mrs. Gray Tt is so quite and placid and elegant In every way. One of the most interesting places, but one of the most depressing I ever saw, Is the General hospital there which is mammoth in size and every dis ease known to the medical profession Is treated there. The grounds surrounding the hospital are wonderfully beautiful and the sight of hundreds of convalescents en- toying the fresh air Is something not soon to be forgotten"
 And when you arrived in Paris after your trip through the Swiss country. Lu- zerne, Interlaken- and the beautiful lakes of Switzerland, suppose you were ready to turn your attention to things that all women love-namely, the ateliers of the Due de la Paix, and you had very little time for other things,'' remarked
 'On the contrary I was perfectly de- lighted to hear Mary Garden as soon as I arrived. It was the first time had ever heard her, and she Is wonderful The opera was Hamlet. and she was mag nifcent and is the idol of the French people, I regretted that Mona Wanna was not put on while was there. Then another evening I went to the Opera Comique and my friends laughed consid- erably when I told them that from the name of the theatre I had expected to see something comic-but instead The Magic Flute was sung and 1t was su- perb.
 And after the opera of course Paris affords the most alluring of opportuni- ties for supper parties and midnight rev els, in the many cafes. restaurants and things of the kind of any place in the world" I su, sested.
 "Oh, yes; but all that was a twice told tale to me, although I enjoyed it immensely We met number of Amer Do, ,;e land we enjoyed a great many delightful evenings with them. Then of course the shops occupied our attention In the day time. I must tell you about going to Worths and Paquin's. I asked friend of mine who accompanied me once or twice on these shopping expeditions to plead an engagement whenever the sales- women began to go up couple of hun dred dollars on a frock And it wasn't very long at either place before the en- gagement was announced, and taking 1t as a cue, I postponed buying the Yrocl until the next day-which of course is un- necessary to say. never came"
 And are the models at these French ateliers very pretty and attractive?' I asked. Mot the clothes, but the women?''
 Some of them are very pretty" re- piled Mrs. Gray, ''and I was so busy looking at the models who wore the clothes that I couldn't half appreciate the new styles. Often, in fact. over there, the woman makes the clothes in stead of the old idea that the clothes make the woman. In many cases the gowns had been tried on so often that they looked very shabby. Particularly was this the case at Drecol's."
 And as we had chosen our favorite top ic--ours and all other women s--namely, dress, we chatted on ad inf1nitum, all of which is too lengthy to relate but very interesting to the participants.