The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-19
NEW YORK
 MUSICAL REVUE
(By Dixie HineS)

New York, July 19, 1919-Music progresses, but not without an effort in its management The impressarios ana the managers hesitate to create and execute innovations. If a cer- tain thing is existent, it pre-supposes that 1t cannot be changed. This con- dLtion is manifest more and more each year. The music critic especi- ally the New York music critic be- HeNes that concert may be review eo While Witnessing only a brief part or a programme. When summer comes we may have concerts but not opera The organ is no instrument 10 win success in concert, and singers are more in demand than instrurnerl- tallsts Oscar Hamm erstein will con- fide to the public that he will do certain thing and is certain to do an other thing. These and many other theories hcF1 the music world in teri tacles of custom, and when some one comes forward and does a thing that has never been done before the first disbelief gives way to the theory that it was an accident of choice and ncth- ing else.
 Last year this was exemplified in a dozen different cases in New York
 
 of 9 young singer from the Metropol- itan who, tiring of waiting for the big chance, decided to burst forth as q concert artiste. She was a singer of personal beauty, possessed of en- viable personality and a voice of glorious volume and sweetn ess. These the average person would Surmise would be sufficient to justify her in seeking to establish herself as a. con-
 
 her nay. She must have a. longer ex- perience in America The fact that she had sung brilliantly. continuously and for a considerable duration in Europe, and came to New York with a contract for the Metropolitan earn ed because of her former successes did not alter the decision of the man agers that she should have more American experience. Then she did thing which might have been ex- peCtcd of an American girl-she de- cidcd to give the concert with her own money and through her own ef- forts.
 And she did. She gave it at Car negie Hall, and she packed that great auditorium and she won, by sheer force of her art, the critical approval of New York and she found herself launched as a success, and the announcement now comes from her engagement that she is to sing clear across the American continent.
 This is the brief resume of the career of Helen Handlers She was born in California which perhaps accounts for the fact htat she did things that the managers told her could not be done. She had as par entS a Russian and a Belgium, which gave to her that surpa assing beauty and the gift of a wonderful matur- ed art. And now she announces three instead of one appearance at Carnegie Hall. Carnegie Hall is institution in the musical world. You are not supposed to appear there unless you have done the towns halls of the rural route. And if you are old enough to do it anyway, then the prediction is freely made that you will sing to empty benches, than to q. house which represents complimentary admissions only.
 The whole world progresses, but music, seemingly, is still held in charge by the retro gressionists- As a result, the foreign governments by q wise and efficient prop ganda, have made deep tnroads into our musical e2lcheQuers-