The New York herald., 1921-11-22
Miss Farrar in
Louise Heard at
the Metropolitan
Messrs. WhitehilI and Harold
Also in Cast of Charpen-
tiers Opera.

Die tote Frau-die tote Stadt."
moaned Paul in Erich Korngod's opera
on Saturday afternoon at the Metropoli-
tan Opera House. THE dead wife: the
dead city" The curtain fell on both to
rise last evening on a live city, live
girl and a live artist.
1t does not take from Saturday after
noon to Monday evening to travel from
Bruges to Paris, but perhaps so long an
interval was good to have between
korngold's "Die tote Stadt" and Char
pentier's Louise" To bring them too
close together might accentuate the diff
ferences between the opera or the dead
and that of the living.
The performance OF Louise" had no
new features. The Louise OF Miss Ger
aldine Farrar shows no material changes.
Perhaps she did not sing the music quite
so loudly as she used to, but this ought
to be accounted to her glory. since most
things are habitually too loud at the
Metropolitan. Miss Farrar sang with
care, and while the volume of her voice
was not large the quality was better
than 1t was in the same part last season.
Mr. Whitehill's impersonation of the
Father remained the outstanding one
among the principals. This excellent
artist sings and acts the part with feel
ing and with a keen sense OF dramatic
values. He wins for the character the
sympathy it requires and deserves. Mr..
Harrolds Julien Is cast In sfalwart
mould There is a touch Of the cave
man about him and no one wonders that
he carries off such a weakling IS Lou.se.
DrAlSewOrtnY
always, as the Mother.
The scene Of the street cries and that
of the sewing room were gener ally well
done, while. Of course. the good old
fashioned opera of the Montmartre fes-
tvel went with sorority and spirit. In
fact Paris, Of which the very name
seemed so thrilling to the people who
had lived there all their lives, was a
genuinely gay old town and every one
in the audience knew 1t. Nc wonder
Louise wanted to get out and enjoy ia
liberte" against which her father vaInly
inveghed. Mr. Wolf conducted, and
though he had just come from Paris
was the only person not in the least
excited about 1t.
There was a fashionable audience to
mark the beginning Of the second week
at the Metropolitan. With Mrs William
K. Vanderbilt I'd in box were Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson Mrs. j.
Purroy Mitchell Messrs. Frank A Nun
sey, Alfonso de Navarro, Charles Hay
den and Lawrence Waterbury.
Mrs. NJ. Orme Wilson's guests in box
3 were Mr.. and Mrs. B. Sumner Welles,
Jr. and Mr.. and Mrs. r. Thornton VIII
son. Mr.. and Mrs. Richard T. Wilson's
guests in box / were MIR. and Mrs John
Aspegren. Mr. and Mrs. Beverly Bogert
Messrs. Harry 8. Black and Sidney Dill
Ion Ripley. Mrs. Wilson also had box
23, her guests there being Mrs. T. ].
oakley Rhinelander, Mrs. Crawford Hill
and Count de Perigny. Mrs. Frederick
Pearson, Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer. Messrs.
Benjamin S. Welles and Charles E..
Sampson were with Gen. and Mrs.
Charles Sheriff. in box Z.
Mr. and Mrs. Willard s. Browns
guests in box 26 were DIR. and Mrs.
Preston Pope Satterwhite. Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfonso p. Villa and Mr.. w. Stephen
Van Rensselaer,. Mr. and Mrs +
Egerton Webb were with Mrs Hamilton
Nick. Twombly in box H. with Mr.
and Mrs. John North Willys in box rs
were Mr.. and Mrs. Ansel Phelps and
Mr.. and Mrs. William McNalr. Mr..
and Mrs Mansfield Patterson and Mr..
and Mrs. Francis l.. V. Hoppin were
with Mr.. and Mrs. John S. Rogers in
box 2. Mr.. and Mrs. George Henry
Warren's guests in box IL were Mrs
II. Casimir de Rham. Mr.. and Mrs.
George Henry Warren. Jr., and Mr..
George Ledlie. DR.. and Mrs. Norman
E. Ditman and Mr.. and Mrs. Lyttletor
Fox were in box 20 with Mrs. Peter
Larsen. Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus L. Patter-
sons guests in box 33 were Mr. and
Mrs. James B. Duke. Mrs. W. De Lancey
kountze. Mr.. Frederic Potts Moore and
Mr.. Goodhue Livingston.
With Mr.. Reginald C. Vanderbilt in
box 81 were Mrs. Oliver Hartman. Mr.
and Mrs. w. Seward Webb. Jr.; Mrs
Louis Ralston and Mr.. Henry F. Ed
ridge. Mr.. and Mrs. Lucius X. Wilmer.
ding and Mrs. Ad rian Iselin were in bo,
2S. Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Cooper Bryce
and Mr.. and Mrs. r. Penn Smith. .Jr,
were with Mrs. G. Henry Hartman in
box ..