The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-07

Any visitor to Aalanta's sepera would voice the corwietionsthattthatsp southern cityshas shown lerksplendid civic strength and patriotism in tthe handling of it's season of opsra. Atlantans. rep resentatives of every elass-one saw the Fashionable mondaire .and the Flaborer as well njoying nightly .the,feastto of music took part In making. g.the.costlysventure success. and how well they slrceededs financially hastbeenttold to theFNorld.
 From an artistic standpoint nothing more satisfying has ever beenI' done in the south than the production of these Tour .lovety operas-Caruso's 's1 absence was felt as a keen disappointment by many to whom opportunity had not come to hear the great tenor, but .in the wealth, of exeenenta voices and the fbrilliant Or chestra one twas given no-cause to note a deficiency. For, totus who heard ethe concensus of feeling was that though parties. might rise, and fall apoliticatr ttations besswept away in one day, all such mundane affairs could trouble us not when we found that Homer Amato and Farrar Aida and uezak were with ,,s still This generation is blessedt in such singers and the audiences in At ilanta were,thricetblessedsn thes oppertun- ity to hear them.
 To the visitor lfrome Birmingham, the first revelation atA the opera. came upon entering the vast stsapditorfum Elnpages ilined the. streets on.either sideaforfseveral blocks beyond theeentrance and several .vigilant policemen vigorously Instructed the drivers as to every move4lest some accident mar any one of thse operatc treats. When after allowing oneself to drift in with the surging sea of music mad humanity that awaited it's turn to enter-for one must enter on tfmeor await the conclusion of an aet-the enormous mass of peopleswas at first blush a dag zling surprise. In the main auditorium, row after row followed in succession so close that notsan inch of space should be wasted, while surrounding and slightly elevated/ were the boxes in which the beauty of Atlanta was arrayed. Behind these were tiers. of Aseats and above was i second great gallery, so that the 7OOC rnusic-loving souls awaiting the parting of the big crimson and gold curtains seemed at the first glance like pigmy people-for the eye, grows unaccustomed in the small audEtoriums of our own city to a building rthat knows magnin- cent distances.
 Closer inspection revealed the real charm of the people who composed this great tide of humanity.
 FLOWERS AND MUSIC
 Essentially southern was the wealth or flowers holding from the ,breasts of beau .tifuIly costumed women and one of the most attractive. characteristic. of the fes- tivai was this gala touch of flower life. Flowers and music, What a beautiful combination with whichsto conjure visions of Atlanta. Pulsating with the breath which was quickened by the music of the orchestra, or stilled by the fierce jealousy of Othello. the Moor, roses shook out their perfume in company with dainty lily bells: and in beauty and sweetness the 1lossoms shared honors with the wom- en near whose hearts they nestled. Look ing over the throng one found many familiar faces. There were the former Birmingham folk, the sometimes visitors to Birmingham, and the Atlantans who are affiliated with our own city be- side the tide of eager music lovers from our city, who were in Atlanta for the