The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-03

beauty of long, flowing lines and a typically Spanish face full of fire and verve. Puccini is said to highly approve and enchores her.
 I'll venture to say, however, off ney own bat" if you will pardon the words, that no singer, be she Spain's most famous beauty or Englands tran cuilest. though she may sing as with all angels tongue, will ever take the place, or, I may almost say, approach, dear, naughty, magnetic and daring Mary Garden in the eyes of New York. To be suxe, she can't sing, but what matters that? To see her, with oppo- site her Edward Renaud in 'Thais,' lis in my opinion to be thrilled and transported.
 However as I said, Mary Garden car ries one along by sheer force of mag netism and intelligent use of all her powers of mind and body. Let us to newer fields, however.
 Strausky the conductor of whom 1t is prophesied that he will take the beloved Mahler's place, if that place can be filled, brought over to this free country bride; hence should at
 tack life with renewed vigor. Person- ally, I think Strausky great must- .oian. He suits Americans, for he is ever on the search for novelties, con corning those who are already in the limelight 3ks
 Freda Hempel is to be considered of first importance musically as she has a ravishing voice and gorgeous good looks to back it up. She is called a 'coloratura soprano" meaning, should say. singer whose voice glows With emotional beauty and sincerity.
 Did I commit the error of saying Maggie Teyte was of the Metropol- itan? If so I retract. We all know she
 belongs to tlie Chicago Opera com
 pany' but they lend their singers freely. want to say just here that l ex- pect from the members of the Music
 Study club the same consideration and
 allowance that one would pay to q
 personal letter. as I verify no facts, but present such gleanings as have come to me from time to time with my real iy exceptional advantages as to such Gleanings, hoping only to entertain. Edison has informed the public that in the Metropolitan opera house one only hears unbalanced music save only in few chosen seats (Shouldn't you think Gatti would discover this, get extra prices for those chosen places?
 One hears too much bass. another the shrilling of the soprano. while yet an other gets the sombre throbhling of | the contralto in excess. Now, then, MT. Edison proposes to construct the por- feet musical instrument, which ono 1 hearing, hears perfectly balanced mu- l sic, Then, too, ile is making stren- uous effort to find out and prove by statistics, though how. I can't for my i life, see. why certain music is tm-
 mortal: why other music of an ephem-
 eral naturel
 l It seems to me this season that New | York is music mad Such a number as there are of light operas. musical plays I---musical any and everything! At the Globe theatre "The Lady of the Slip
 Ter" will be sung for the first time Tn tnis city Monday night, 2S The com pany numbers 150 people, including Lcponkowa, the Russian dancer, wno lis surely an agile fairy The Rose
 Maid'' is to hold the Grand opera house next week. This is most charming little trifle. Mile Bordoni French | singer of great charm and dash Is
 holding forth at the Winter Garden. 1 Auction Pinoehle," new musical com
 eey. will be at A. Philips new theatre on Fifty-seventh street. There is "Oh, nh. Delphine," Count of Luyfmbourg. l Merry Counters and numerops other