The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-07
MOVIE OPERAS
NEW DIVERSION
FOR NEW YORK
Orchestra Will Interpret Scores
While Films Reproduce Sing
ers and Gorgeous Scenery.
on CHARLEs HENI,N NIEIlTxER.

ny CHARLES HENRY NIEITXER.
Especial Gable to The Times Dispatch.l
Paris, September 6.-'Movie opera"
viii delight the eye and cultivate the
popular ear OF New York next season.
At frst an orchestra, with large
pipe organ, will interpret the operate
scores. but the moving pictures will
reproduce in pantomime. with elab-
crate costumes and scenery, every
movement dramatic or. eNhilarating.
sad or joyous, in twenty favorite
operas.
IL H. Hanson, tho Kew York i'm
presario assisted by Albert AEilden-
berg. the American composer. will
give to New York its movie opera"
Mr. Mndcahcrg has been here for
months perfectinE the novel and inter
ertinS plan. He says the Academy OF
Music and two other New York play
houses will be reserved for the cine
matoEraph opera next season.
Some OF the operas 10 be so given
are Carmen Samson ct Della"
Aida" "Rigoletto." I'll Trovatore,"
''Manon." Ia Gioconda." 'NIeAstofele,"
"Tannhauser.'' ''Lohcngrin," "PaS
liacci" and "Cavalleria Rusticana."
Wolf Ferrari once said he thought
X very possible that grand opera will
he changed some DAY by replacing the
Carusos and tie Destinns OF our time
by accom- plished mimics. who viii. act
their parts TO the accompaniment Of
r noble orchestra. Then, ut last
opera may be really popular"
Cavalicri VIII Not We'd
In operate circles 1t is again ru-
mored that for reasons said TO be con-
nected with \ certain singer, Maestro
Toscanini may prefer not to return to
the metropolitan Opera House this
autumn Such stories have been cur
rent here before, and have been
promptly contradicted. William Guard,
the Metropolitans press representa-
tive. assures me the latest tale is false.
Another tale can be denied with
authority. There is no truth, de-
spite gossip, in the report tpat
Nine Lima Cavalier viii soon marry
the French tenor Muratorc. When I
saw Nine. Cavalieri at her country
house near Pontoise few days ago,
she laughed ut the bare thought of
again rlungins into matrimonial
waters.
Il an, hard at work now said the
charming singer. ''rehearsing several
and Chicago. They include Conchita
and Francesca di Rimini, the heroines
of Eandonaiss TWO operas, besides
Charlotte. in Wyrthenin.'"
In ali those works Nine. Cavalieri
will have the cooperation of Mura-
new and trying roles with Tournan.
her accompanies, La Belle Lima plays
=, farming. trims roses in her lovely
park and gardens. For some years she
has preferred the p-ace she finds at
her own country home TO the more
frenZied joys Of Deauville and the
spas
Opera I'm Central Park.
During his recent stay in Paris
Comptroller Prendergast took an hour
of to investigate al fresco" opera.
told him OF the popular performances
which take place in the garden of the
Tuileries and asked him about the
possibility OF giving entertainments OF
the same sort every summer under
municipal auspices in Central Park
Like Park Commissioner Slower. OF
New York, Mr.. Prendcrgast seemed IA
rorably Impressed by the idea, at least
in theory. He may forget IT, though
before ne sees New York