The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-19

 to be enjoyed by American audiences in several years. This opera, having lain dormant for many seasons, has come into sudden popular favor, and will later be presented by the new grand opera company at the Lexing- ton Theatre, which will begin next week a season of light and grand opera in the German language, the incipient opposition having apparently died out. With the opening of these two seasons, and the activity in the Metropolitan Opera House since the return of it's manager, and further evidence of early approach of oper- atic activities with the fusilade of press notices from the local camps of the Chicago Opera Company leaves no further evidence necessary to her aid the approach or the new season.
 The company at the Lexington, which is to be known as the Star Opera Company, will have a mixed bill as it's premiere, the remainder of the week being divided between ''Czar and Zimmerman and Der Fledermaus'', each of wnIcn wI1l be sung for half a week, and thereafter two operas each week will be sung. The company is composed of young
 
 A large percentage of them are Amer icans-Otto Goritz is authority for the statement that more than seventy per cent. of them are American-and the chief conductor is Theodore Spiering, an intelligent and thoroughly experienced conductor of not only of grand opGra, but symphony orches- tras as well. Although MT. Spiering is an American by birth, his most in teresting American experience was result of his engagement in Vienna by the late Gustav Mahler for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, of which MT. Mah1er was conductor and who was succeeded by MT. Spier- ing after his unttmely death left the post vacant. Since then MT. Spiering's name has been conspicu- ous in connection with several inn portant posts to be filled. notably the Boston Orchestra and the new Symphony Orchestra of Los Angles, His Americanism, apparently, was the only disqualifying condition making him ineligible as a successor to the foreign predecessor.
 In this connection it may be re- marked that the symphony season opened in New York last week with
 
 new orchestra which has Arthur Bo- dansky as conductor. This is called the New Orchestra, which appears to be a misnomer. True it is new organization, but it's policy and prfn- ciples appear to be the same as the older organizations. The fornulae orchestras is very simple Chiefly it is to select foreign conductor and American subscribers These retails having been completed, the next step is to place the fore.gn conductor in full charge of the artistic end and an American in charge of the finan- ciaL The former proceeds to fill his orchestra with foreign musicians, and the honored positions of soIo;sts with foreign artists. That done they are ready to appeal to Americans for sup ! port on the grounds that it is good for native art Our noted critics, who ] fill reams of space with dissertations on native music and its chief claims 1 have entirely overlooked this feature l of all our symphony orch estras. There i is room in this country for an orches- 1 tra directed by a native conductor 1 and with native solofsts if for no l reason than to tour this country as a curiosity.
 acCOn1D1Sn- ment is being strongly urged by the Department of Education and the De- . partment of Health of New York City. It is the belief of the gentlemen un- l der whose direction the destinies of | these institutions fall that dancing 1 if more universally practiced, would , prove beneficial to morals and i health. They have taken the subject 1 matter of interview recently | published which credits Madame Lu- bovska with expressing the conviction ! that dancing, when enjoyed properly, 1 makes for better morals as we'll as i better health. And in keeping with ] this new dance period, Famous moving picture company is to Ire lease" shortly the history of the 1 dance, dating from the period of | Eve to the ultra modern jazz period, l and Madame Lubovska, as a premiere American dancer, is to be the star of | this series, which is to be contribu- ted by other noted dance experts as well. Madame Lubovska, however, will begin the period with a repro duction of the earliest dance move ments known, and these the brilliant dancer expects to trace directly to Eve in the guise of a nature" dance. The series is to be highly illustrative and will form the notable contribu- tion to the dance that has even been conceived. The creation of Lubovska are among the most original and ef- fective of the series which will include more than 60 illustrations, half o1 which are to be done by Lubovska. In the general exchange of noted representatives of the arts between the Oriental and Occidental countries it is interesting the record the early departure of a dramatic organization headed by a sterling American ac- tress, Wanda Howard, which will take a group of. principal American stage ) China, Japan and Inr~a. This organ. ) izatfon will sail iron, San Francisco , in fortnight, making the first stoI at Honolulu, thence to Singapor' , where a season of three months wi! be enjoyed. China and Japan vii have an opportunity of witnessing American plays produced under ia } vorable conditions and acted by company which will be artisticall
 notable. Miss Howard, who is tn ] chief artistic reliance, has been re g cruited from the moving picture an