Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-12


them, and ladies will step out of
limousines with tiaras and be bathed in
flood of Photographic spotlight, and the most
costly of the seasons feminine wardrobeS will
be on display. 1t is, strictly speaking. little
late in the season for all this, and yet when
the Metropolitan Opera Co. comes to town.
whether in the Spring or even perhaps were
it to come in the heyday of Summer, there
would be that Haunting Of feminine and in
lesser way masculine, Splendor without which
no great opera company would be q great opera
company.
There is cause for much rejoicing this year,
however. The Fox Theater, in the first place,
is giving itself up for q second year to the
operate muse. And there is no opera house
in this wide country more pleasantly adapted
to such musical projectS-even il one remem-
bers Mr.. Tibbett last year year lamenting over
the compactneSS of the dressing rooms. In
the second place, Washington is having the
extreme honor of hearing "Peter Ibbettson."
which fact this city has woken up to with
surprising intensity, there being not SO much
half a seat available in the entire Fox
Theater.
And, in the third place, among the many
great and popular stars who will sing there
win be that young French songbird, Lily Pons,
whose voice has not been heretofore revealed
in these parts, except perhaps over the radio,
and who, with the magnificent Lucrezia Bori,
will have one Of the chief roles in "Mignon"
"Mignon," coming as it does in the early
afternoon Is necessarily attracting the least
fire of the three, and that is unfortunate, be-
cause whether one likes the music or not,
whether one clings to sentimental memories
OF . Garden or q Farrar doing it, one should
positively not miss hearing Nine. PonS whose
singing is said 70 have caused that great and
august group of Metropolitan dictators who
listen to newcomers at q formal tryout to
burst into real and uncomfortable weeping.
fine pOnC lie itnd Twif IN
something like "a curtain calls at her Metro
poIYtan debut, and since then has been feted
in the Skyscraper town Is no one has since
Jeritza shipped the operate crown from the
whiting head Of the lovely Miss Farrar.
Although Peter IbbetSon" is causing the
most excitement, '"ToSca" the first of the
operate feast is very nearly as popular. This
is due not only to the dramatic flavor OF the
opus and its familiar music, but to the fact that
Jeritza will assume the handsome robes Of the
unhappy heroine. Word has come, too, that
this singer will positively jump from the para
pet in the finale and, If memory does not lie,
1t seems as II we had seen this same lady very
fiat on the floor singing one of the best of the
arias with nothing much visible above the foot
lights except her blonde and comedy head.
Thus it win go. And silks and satins and
perhaps a touch Of crinoline viii have their
day-their three days And after these three
days Washingtonians viii have spent the same
to furnish themselves with q symphony
orchestra which could play all season long and
not be tired, or tire, or starve by so doing
SPEAKING Of symphony orchestras reminds
us that Mr.. Kindlers organization has been
progressing in leaps and bounds. At meeting
OF some Of the local chiefs the other day at
the home Of Mrs. Beale Howard such Roadway
was made as seemed Incredible Present, be-
sides the hostess, were the indefatigabe MT
Kinder and Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe, equally
indefatigable. and Mrs. Eugene Byrnes, who
represented the Friday Morning Music Club;
Frank Akers Frost, Mrs. Wilson Greene, who is
taking over the managerial reins of this project
and many other prominent leaders of various
local clubs and organizations, all trying to stir
up interest in the promoting of next seasons
more than probable orchestra. Many interest
ing plans were discussed, and before the meet
ing was over it seemed, from the various
rumors, as If every butcher and baker and
Candlestick maker in town were interested in
helping along the good cause. And incidentally
before this meeting had been under way hour
almost $1,000 had been miraculously added 20
the receipts.