Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-11
MARY GARDEN Wins
OVATION IN LOUISE
Larger Audience Than on
Opening Night Enthusiastic
Over Performance.

Mary Garden is always wonderful
in the magical way in which she
Invests every operate character which
she portrays with magnetic person
atty and dramatic effectiveness.
Last night in CharPcntler's Louise"
G standardized Mary Garden role, she
won ovation after ovation in this. the
second opera presented in Washing
tom at the Washington Auditorium
this @eaSou ?y tho Chicago Civic
Opera Company. y much larger
audience was pres ont this second
right and seemed tull of HnthuSia SIN
Gud admiration for Miss Garden. the
other leading singers and GiOrGIO
Polacro.s marvellous conducting Of
III" subtle. exquisite" StralnS o! Char
lcutiev'a music. The orchestra seem
Cd an entirely different organization
s""rn that which gave beautiful but
extremely fpryis,ino rendition Of PUc-
,ini's music the night before.
Mary Garden sings increa singlv
Wen. The famous aria "DepuiS lie
Jour" was highly successful.
Miss Garden wisely insists on Ans
scau and Baklanoff in the principal
male roles in her production Of
LOUISE for they give her perfect
support MIR. Nn&seau. the French
tenor. vlho signs Julien. the lover. has
beautiful VOICE, Which he handles
with intelligence. lie is dramatically
fine foil for Miss Garden. and their
duet in the third act was beautiful.
Mr.. Baklaroff has the finest voice Of
the group. a wonderful. resonant organ
O. remarkable depth and volume. In
tho role of tho father he was ideally
hA ha q
strong. deep coutralto. which. how
ever, comes through only internit-
t""llv, was fine as the mother. Jose
NriiCa. Mexican tenor, who gave Miss
Garden tine support in "ThaiS' last
vc4r and later was heard in Washing
ION in the leading tenor role of The
1;arher of Seville" made the most of
IiS three characteriZatioaS, the King
Of Fools in which he Wore gorgeous
CoiorfuI costume; Noctambulist the
Man About Town of Paris Of the early
dawn ana a Song Writer.
Others in the lengthy east of
those singing important bits 10 give
atmosphere and dramatic values to
the work included: Alice dllermanoy,
Jean de k"yser. ErneSto Tort,
Iugenio Correnti, Louis Derman.
pcsirc Defrere. Antonio NiColich,
Idouard Cotreuil, Anna Correnti,
Howard Preston. Elizabeth Kerr,
Giuseppe Minerva, Ruth Lewis, Elise
tic Nalois. Helen Freund, Irene Paw
ioSka, LodoyiCo Oliviero. Mary G'lil-
lermo, Constance Ritterl, Devera
NadWorney. Clara Shear, Grace Gun
bingham. Rose Salvina and Tolande
TroSZherE.
The ballet under the leadership Of
Mo. Sanunls, gave charming Incl
drutal dances. The entire frolic set
ting and acting was admirable. Al
of the sets were carefully planned
p to the finest detail. Miss Garden,
Miss Claessens and others all con-
trihnted to the reality of each act
with we'll handled bits of stage husi-
-lcss The orchestral prelude to the
second act, "A Montmartre Cross
way" was another high light of eff
fec.ive staging. mining and musical
interpretation.
In short. Louise" as staged last
night. proved extremely successful
operate entertainment from every
point of view.
Tonight the company is scheduled TO
play Verdi's Masked BALI in Balti-
more. Tomorrow afternoon the extra
added performance for Washington
music lovers who were disappointed
with a substituted opera Tuesday
night, will be given. The opera to be
sung will probably be Flotow's Mar
1ha." with Edith Mason, Irene Paw
loska. Antonio Cortis and Virgilio Laz-
zari in the leading roles. and Polacco
conducting 1t will begin pormptly at
. o'clock. Saturday afternoon. Mary
Garden will sing in Carmen" and
Tito Ruffo is scheduled to appear in
.Rigoletto" Saturday night, closing
the season. II. f.