The billboard (Mar 1918)

The Billboard MARCH 16, 1918 fe eyltle Hi a » muine rie il! i Shab ERE tt i i ye 1 ie il q | gentleman was once asked how he liked the address of a certain brilliant orator, and repiled that he didn't know,.as the speaker's per Le forgot ‘to ask her much about .fouiic.” AML of which, in the writer's opinion, is ‘much to the credit of Miss Pyle, as'it is extremely in FIEL D 22—Te NEW-YORK_ ent operatic company in Los Angeles, which will give regular concerts in English at low Prices. POPULAR OPERA ‘The idea of popular opera again raises its head Gefantly in New York. There are those who say the idea ts impossible, but Oscar Hammer stein bas @ penchant for accomplishing the imPossible. He. loves paradoxes—he dotes on tairacles. Four weeks ago be was in the bospital, from which we-were assured he would ‘ever emerge. save in a hearse; today he is in ‘his office’on_ Forty-second street, New York, look WYNNE PYLE ‘The preliminary announcements of the twenty‘fth' annual May Festival at Ana’ Arbor, Mich., have been sent out..'The dates are May 15, 16, tinelli, Margaret Matzenauer, Arthur 3flddteton, Myraa Sharlow, Riccardo Stracciari and Clandio Murio. The University Choral Union of 300 ‘Stock and A. A. Stanley, will also.participate. ‘Other artists to appear.will be announced later. ENGLISH OPERA FOR COAST. Les Angeles, March 10—Arrangement .comPleted between M. DePasquall. founder of the Loe Angeles English Opera Company, and Falgensio Guerrer!, operatic conductor, will make Possible @ season of opera in Engiish, to be given at Clane’s Auditorium the latter part of April, It is: Pasquall’s plan to establish = perma ready expressed nfs willingness to help, and it is Delleved that the Metropolitan Opera Com[pany now sces the advantage of encouraging and even supporting another organization which cam train young artists, and thos become a feeder to the Metropolitan. BREIL WRITING BALLET Cart Brell, the well-known composer and con|dnctor, bas been commissioned to write a ballet jon the subject of Orpheus and Buridyce for Mme. Labowska, the Russian dancer, who will make /a South American tour with her own company. FALLTOUR OF CHICAGO OPERA ‘The annual fall tour of the Chicago Opera As soctation, which takes. place each season in advance of the Chicago opening, will be devoted next antimn to The Barber of Seville, with Btracclarl.as the Barber and Galli-Curcl as Rosina, apd Tosca, with Mary Garden as the heroine, Lacien Muratore as Cavaradoss! and George Baklanof as Scarpia, METROPOLITAN THIS WEEK Bra Didur, daughter of Adam Didar, the Metropolitan bass, made her debut as soloist at last Sunday's opera concert, with Mischa Elmsn, the Violinist, and Jose Mardones, Geraldine Far: rar opened the Metropolitan's eighteenth week in ‘Thais on Monday, with Diaz and Whitehill. Cavalleria, with Easton, will be repeated Fri day night, Le Propbete, with Caruso and Matzenauer, will be the Saturday matinee, and Barber of Seville, with Barrientos, Carpi and De Luca will be the popular Saturday night attraction. MACDONALD GOES TO FRONT W. B. Macdonald, the wellnown musical manager, of the frm of W. R. Macdonald, Inc., 1451 Broadway, New York, sailed last week for England, whence be will proceed to France oa a special mission for the British War Department. Mr. Macdonald is a native of England, and, while his calling has been delayed, it came quick enough at the end. ‘For the present, if not permanently, the r=. W. R. Macdonald, Inc., will continue to manage the popular American tenor, Arthur Hackett, ‘the Dusiness being carried on as usual by Mr. Macdonald's associates. HELEN MOLLER’S “ART” We do not in the least admire what Helen Moller did at the Metropolitan Opera House New York, Monday afternoon, February 25. Miss Moller may bare exposed Greek dancing, but we @oubt it, and we are quite sure that her mest notable exposure was Just solid, bare flesh, with‘ut any such thing as art counected with it. AMiss Moller's child pupils were az sweet and fascinating as children always are. ‘We note, however, that Miss Moller’s dance, advertised to be given in the Metropolitan Opers House at a Inter date, will not be given in that Duflding, as the Metropolitan management doce tinetly worth while on its own merit thing different from that which is currently dooe in New York. TRENCH SONGS promotion are invited to consult, elther DY ‘mall or iu person, The Billboard's concert man, Mr, Witbey, ia the Subway Central Bollaiog, 424 street and Broadway, : New ‘York; telephone, Bryant 6470. This service ts entirely" free, there belng Do charge of ‘any Kind whatsoerer, and concert artists’are cordially invited to avall themsclves of this service.