The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-21


with great success for several
years until the washington
Opera Company IL % safely e.
tab1ished that washington can
no longer be held up to ridicule
az the one civilized capital IN the
world without It's own opera.
There Il much to be accom-.
piished vet. Of course, for we
should have an opera season 81
several weeks instead 81 the two
performances Of '.RigoIetto,s,
which are scheduled for this
week, and the brief season 81
Carmen again one evening
performances and matinee We
are promised in February. But
the worst Of the struggle il
over. All that Ii needed now Il
time and money what has been
accomplished has been done on
the proverbial shoe string and
the loyal support Of the citizens
Of Washington. And then. be-
fore long. wen have ID opera
organization 10 rank with the
best.
The visit 81 the chicako Grand
opera Company. Oh Fehruary {,
8 and Z. with such stars Is Rosa
Paisa, the inimitabIe Mary car
den. Edith Mason, Baklanoff ana
the rest, should give fiIIip
to Washington's interest III the
opera situation. And here's hon
ing that the result WIN Be IN
annual visit from the Chicaso
Opera and such enthusiastic s,ap-
port Of our own company that
by another year the Washing
ton Opera Company can put On
q season OF ct least two weeks
and can make the older organiza-
ton look to its laureIs.
THE reception at the Pan Amer
lean Union win be preceded
by q small dinner for the official
delegates to the conference and
their wives. The guests will be
limited to fifty, and they win be
seated in the ''HalI of Patriots''
the official name Of the balcony
overlooking the palm-filIed ratio.
It is whispered that . marimba
orchestra-the marimba IL an in
strument native to Guatemala
and marvelousIy adapted to jazz
is to be imported from New York
for the occasion, 80 there 10
every promise that this win be q
wonderful party.
RY way Of ian extra added a.
traction the Congressional
Club will have that brilliant young
singer, Cecil Arden, among its
guests tomorrow evening, and
during the course Of the recep-
ton sne WIN sing two groups OF
songs. Miss Arden is q mezzo.
soprano, one OF the youngest
singers on the roster Of the Met
ropolitan Opera Company, who is
rapidly becoming famous for her
beauty as well as for her lovely
voice.
She is an American, her mother
having sprung from old Ken
lucky lineage. while her fathers
ancestors settled in South Caro-
lima in the early Eighteenth, cen
fury. Yet she recently was pre-
scented with the Italian Order Of
Merit, which is given for the nd.
vancement OF Italian culture cut
side the realm.
As for the week Just past, e
has been as crowded as the
week to come gives promise of
being. There has been the usual
grist Of dinners, VIGOROUSLY Wash.
ington's favorite indoor SPORT
dinners for the Coolidges, dinners
for the Hughes and dinners for
the strangers tlnostly Hritishers
within our gates. And there have
been dinners-most enjoyable din
ners-preceding the two or three
worthwhile dances for the people
who were not corrailod for the
formal dinners ''in honor Of some
more or less notable notahiliey.
Then the dances-the Navy and
Marine Corns danes % &enaASh