The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-15
Letting Your Photograph Give You the
Inside Dope on Grand Opera at Hone
By Observer

Grand opera is no longer the dis.
ease tonic" for the alleged highbrow.
Grand opera often is great music.
Depends when and where it was
written and then depends when and
where You hear it.
The monograph today makes it
possible to have the greatest posi-
BILE casts in your home.
Just for fun let us either refresh
our memories or even get acquainted
with "Pagliacci," known as THE
Players" dramatic opera in two acts
by Ruggiero Leoncavallo.
The Brunswick catalogue lists
the arias from "Pagliacci" as fol
lows:
u, BallatelIa-"Che volo daugellr' eye
81 BIRDS without NUMBER Act l 1Leoncaval-
Csrmen-Je dis que rien ne m'epourvante
S S,Mlea,elas Air. Act III (BizetJ Soprano in
rrench-Florence Easton
Prolog Leoncavallo) Baritone in Italian
a. giuseppe Danlse. Tine Masked Ball-Er
" e6 enc m1aWc Sl1!v rs II Thoul Act III,
seppe Danise
y Selection OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Italian
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The Story
There Is lot of musical wealth
along historical lines of the opera in
a Brunswick catalogue.
Brunswick describes "Pagliacci" as
follows:
r Dramatic opera in two acts by Ruggiero
iitSSo9DDcaVallo. First produced In Milan.
II opens with the world famous PRO
losue IN which Tonic, the clown OF the
slr9Iiing players parts the curtains and ex.
pans thAt the play is taken from real
ire; reminds the audience that actors are
D o men with passions and emotions like
our own ana that the author has tried to
express the real feelings alsi sentiments
OF the characters. The l"PiSlogue' ends
"h men Tonic orders up the curtain.
Oh OF players returning from parading the
village. He. announces that the per-
and taxes W aaF Ses R r. PeDb that evening H5E
lleauinl. Tonic remains behind and makes
LOVE- love TO Canios wife. Media, but she
scOrns linn, striking him with her whip
venged '' ~ " ~ AZ
sy Nth zelda SS YOUNG na v bs be4 is al also s
With him. She refuses but vows that she
owes him. This is all overheard by the
Eanio., Canio comes to kill Neddas's
dover but arrives too late He demands
hh eN eyer that she Ten him the name o.
pare for the evening performance
-. In Act III the audience is assembled and
the play begins. situation is then pre-
scented which is very akin to the drama OF
actual life which we have recounted
punehinello, tCanio) arrives and surprises
he loses his head when he hears Colum-
bine (Nedda) repeat the very words he
h hGSS. her say to her lover. Columbine
lighted with such realistic acting" He
Media. stung by his taunts. defies him
tCanto) and Is stabbed by him. She falls
calling for Sivio. who rushes to the stage
the dagger of the enraged husband
d. AZ cani9 stands ssnpetied he drops the
And Brunswick has beautifully re-
corded the music from this opera.
T. l. T.
Indianapolis theaters today offer:
1.-THE Black Pirate" at the Circle;
Fig Leaves" at the Colonial; 1.-THE
Waning Sex" at the Apollo: THE
Waltz Dream" at the Circle; TOO
Much Money" at the Uptown. and
movies at the Isis. On the stage,
Chatter Box Girls" at the Mutual;
THE Rhapsodians," at the Lyric,
and Dan Fitch's Minstrels, at the
Palace.