Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-05

sibie fad as introducing the zinnlas
again into the border and beds.
| The National Capital shares with st.
| Louis the honor of having the com
munity opera Il natiorai innova ton,
! and now comes the news Of elaborate
! efforts in more pOpulouS centcrs- New
I York, Chicago and Philadelphia. New
! York rarely permits another city to
| blaze a path for her development. but
| the MANAGERS of the National Common
wealth English Opera Company Of
| Gotham are frankly initiating Washing
ton in encouraging local talent in the
star roles.
Mrs. Julian Edwards, who is presi-
dent of the New York state Federation
| of Music Clubs. cordially advises all
young singers to devote every spare
| noment to learning operate roles. The
| field she says. will soon be ripe for
big Developments, and those who are
prepared will have unusual oppor
| tqnities. more complete knowledge
and appreciation of good music is no
| doubt the result of the almost univer-
sal use in this country of the piano.
/ player and the photograph. ana to this
may also be described the longing in
every community to have fine music
| obtainable easily and often instead of
as a rare treat, as now. Mrs. Edwards
sees splendid things in the future
when every township has its opera
company and choral, as every German
city had its wonderful orchestra. The
1 community opera is aimed to perfect
versatility. so that star parts will
1 never go as a right to one singularly
| talented person, but will be assigned
in succession throughout the cast
until the unit is perfect, and this
e,evates the whole cast.
| Properly financed. the singers viii
be trained in acting, elocution and in
delsarte as well as in singing and the
In to sj,Itr for r
| ing generation of graceful. cultured
| men and women, and of adding intrin-
| scally to the value of American
citizenship. New York will give an
! experimental series of community
! operas at the Lexington Theater begin
ming next week, and the hope is to
| book the company in every section of
1 the state for a series of performances
| varying from ten to three in rural dis
! tricts and to the same number of
/! is following similar concert and
| Chicago thus far is limiting activities
to the public school children and to
| chora Is rather than to the production
| Of s.ras.
Brilliant ceremonies are few and
| far between during dog days in
Rome, but the British government
surrounded that function in which
Cardinal Camassei, project Of the Pro-
paganda Eide, was invested with the
Grand Cross of the Order of the Brit
ish Empire. with every detail of ira
dition. Count de Sails, minister from
the court of st. James to the Holy
See, was master of ceremonies for
King George while a papal guard
represented the Vatican. An impress
sive company was asked. the eccles-
iastical portion of it wearing full
pontifical robes. with the diplomats
in their most gorgeous rainment and
the military a blaze of glory. The
ceremony took place in the famous
old College of the Propaganda Eide
which is the alma mater of at least
two thirds of the American hierarchy
and of a fair proportion of the British.
Cardinal Camassie. on which such
distinguished honors were conferred,
was patriarch of Jerusalem during