New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

bered glance into the setting sun over h..
childs cradle" s'
"The Evening Post" employed the ado
tives, Subtle, graceful, dreamy, poetic
pathetic" and added: "How beaut;
full she looked, with that glorious cat.
ract of hair, which plays such proniner.
part in the opera! She sang, too, 50 70,
as the composer permitted" "The BrooL.
lyn Eagle" found her performance smo,o
convincing than ever" and observed that
cher scene in the garden with Pelleas v.,
scarcely Of this world, so evanescent and
80 weirdly beautiful was it," Grepvn,.
Vernon, who, in The Tribune, noted the
fact that the other roles created bv Marv
Garden are all notably vivacious. founa
that "in 'Melisande' her natural vigor van.
ishes into thin air. She is wrath of wist.
fulness; her veins are bloodless. Hers ia
supreme triumph of art over nature. T.
marks Miss Garden as an actress of ey.
traordinary imaginative power and tech.
nical versatility. She was never mora
beautiful nor more poetic" This same
writer well voiced the prevailing opinion
of the work of the other leading artists
upon the occasion under comment. II
wrote:
"The Golaud of Hector Dufranne was al.
ways admirable, and the ten years that have
passed since he first gave his conception to
US have left it untouched. Jean Perrer is
no longer the Pclleas, but in Alfred
Maguenat the Chicago company has found
worthy successor. His impersonation was
poetic and his diction superb in its clarity
Louise Berat was equally as fine as Gene.
We've, and Gustave Huberdeau admirable AZ
Arkel. In short, aside from the stiff scenery
and poor lighting the performance reached a
| more perfect unity than anything the Chi
cago company has yet offered
CALLI-CURCI has gone on to fresh
~ triumphs. Her singing in Lucia" in
"Dinorah" again, and in concert on
Sunday night at the Hippodrome seems to
have deepened the first impression. The
public continues to applaud with thunder.
Gus fervor, the critics to spend upon her
genuine wealth of enthusiasm-all EXCEPT
the critic of ''The Evening Post" who in
sists that "she does not possess the Melba
trill' and that her voice "has not the
purity and luscious quality" of the voices
Of Patti, Melba and Sembrich." "But"
he admits, ''as a rival of the flute, she once
more won brilliant triumph" in Lucia"
While most of the critics have mentioned
what they esteem minor flaws, such as an
occasional falter from pitch, only "The
Evening Post" has criticised severely. It
was even suggested in the editorial col.
umns of that paper that she may have &C.
qulred her remarkable staccato by rapidly
pronouncing her own nafne. The other
papers find in Galli-Curci an artist whose
fame promises to endure. Incidentally
she goes on record with the information
that she isn't a suffragist.
This resume must not be concluded with
out celebrating the temperance of Melba
as Marguerite in Gounods "Faust." "The
Sum-" which admitted that cit would be
idle to deny that the voice is no longer in
It's b!oom," yet contended that "she sang
with all her early authority, with her beau.
tlful quality of tone in many places and
with her skill in tone emission" A very
human note was struck by "The World"
which wrote:
Many citizens with the best part of their
lives behind them pounded their palms for
sheer Joy--Chauncey NJ. Depew among them.
so Nine. Melba sang on, and to very good
effect"
1t was called her "silver jubilee"
Nor must mention fail in the case of the
brilliant young dramatic soprano, Rosa
Ralsa, whose Aida was warmly praised.
In one place it was recorded that "such
wealth of tone and intensity has not been
heard in this city in many years." In an
other appeared the information that in the
"Patrla mia" air she "took high G, and,
not content, as other sopranos are, to
reach that without mishap, she made su-
perb crescendo, or swell tone that fired
the house" "The Herald" thinks Nine.
Raisa "has the best dramatic soprano
voice heard here since Miss Emmy
Dcstlnn." Superlatives also greeted her
singing of Santuzza in "Cavalleria Rus
tlcana." Miss Raisa," one critic decided,
was one of the most intensely interesting
not to say compelling, Santuzzas heard
here in long time
The French singer, Genevieve Vix, re-
gained, to revert to appropriate phrase
ology, quite little lost territory in Char.
pentier's Louise"