Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-01-17
GOOD THINGS AHEAD
FOR LOCAL
THEATER
Haink to Give
Splendid Program in Con-
cert Thursday Night Good
Bills Next Week,

II Is 4 very attractive program oil
Offerings that the Elks' heater holds
out to Amusement seekers during the
next Few days What with the schu-
mann-Heink concert on Thursday
night, and THE Lilo and the Mouse
and "Forty-Five Minutes From Broad
way old but %tunefui, for the first Of
next week, there is something to look
forward to.
The program for Nine. %Schnmann-
Helms concer is one calculated to de-
light the hearts Of those who have
heard the wonderful singer and 1t
offers a world of surprises to those
who have not. The program is di-
vidcd into -four parts, the first being
the recitative and aria 'Nitellia from
Motzart's opera Titus. This is suffi-
cicntly pretentious to satisfy the most
.eXacting. Part two will be from Saint
Sacns. Wagner and M~eyerbeer, part
three Includes Schubert, Schumann,
Brahms. Richard Strauss, Felix Vein
GARNER ana l.. stein, a galaxy Of the
worlds masters of song. Part four
will be lighter. but none the less de-
.lightful for it win include Nevin's
" Rosary Chatwiok's "Oh, Let Night
Speak 70 Me, 4fiis LULLABY by Bonds
ana Love in a Cottage" By Rudolph
CAM. It is a program which viii APP
peal 10 every musical taste and it will
be surprising If there is a vacant seat
in the theater.
Nine. Schumann-Heink is an Amer
lean citizen. although born IN Lieben,
near Prague, Bohemia. When asked a
short time ago why she preferred
America to Austria and Germany, size.
replied ''All my luck, All my for
tune, came to me here. want to be
an American, but most of all, ! want
my children TO he Americans. In this
wonderful country everyone Is esti-
mated according 10 his worth for here
work is respected. no matter of what
sort II is. In Germany one must have
titles, riches. position to be anyone at
an. Here / shake hands with every
body. all are my friends. South, east,
west. north-eVerywherc ! find such
frieds. The southern people are
the lovcliest know off"
Some statistieally inclined person
has discovered that contraltos lead all
other categories of singers in the size
OF their families. Few operate stars
consider themselves able to afford the
luxury OF children. Who ever knew q
famous soprano with more than one
Baritones and tenors are al
equally conservative. though
Campanaii thrives in spite Of our i'm
pcdimenis hut contfaitos seem deter
mined on %petpetuating their own
ia their children. The bright
ana shiuing example is Nine. Schu-
mann-licinl. who always speeds from
her triumphs Ia the bejeweled metro
polls to spend her few hours of leisure
in the bosom Of her famous family Of
eight. In the name OF the last acces-
sion to the Singas household, George
Washington Schumann-iIeink, the
singers intense love for her adopted
crops TO the surface.
Although proud Of her progeny. the
star Is equally fond Of a lest between
whirl of her profession and the
dignity of staid maternity What a
position for a mother Of eight chill
she once flashed down TO the
faces of the orchestra when.
Al "a monotonons rehearsal of "Das
Rheingold. Schumann-1Ieiuk was
Tossed high in air towards the wavy
branches of the wings as one of the
daughters. The group on the
stage could not help smiling, some
perhaps "a trifle e%nviously, for there
was an immense degree of complac-
sncy in the mothors chuckle over her
position.