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[ . 8 THE NiSW YORK HERALD, SUtNPAY, NOVEMBER l;3, 1921. A OPERA 0PENING VITHNEVV STARSj\ND NEW/~WORK FOR FIRST° WEEK . I! A mp.rirn n Ssrhnnl Galli-Curci in 'La Traviata' f Viennese and Italiari Sopranos Who Make 1'heir Debuts and Ame;rican Who Returns | i A If r J Wigs Helped I of Music in France George Arliss to Make Met Debui i ropolitan Ir^r Success First Yeair Become Star Koragold's "Die Tote Staiclt" With Viennese Sopranc Novelty of the 0[>ening Week. Story * Miss Ethel Host of New Yorlj As u Youth He Bewail Writing1 ^ '* ' Playlets to Fit of the >few Work. l; I Among' Thoso Receiving Awards for Singing. Headgear. By W. J. urvncocnw A Is an 'iui u. ui iuc House One or the ' wig innocent looking object. | upfia Metropolitan Opera, will beglr interesting developments ii devoid, it would the music world seem, of ail j to-morrow evening, when ]Vlme. Amelita Galli-Curci will emerge tho last year was th< tion unless to u hairdresser. YetinGptra8even A . as a member of tiie comp any, singing the melodious music ir establishment of t'.:o American tho homeliest and lowliest of objects at the may act us a spur to tho imagination. which Verdi sighs out the woes of Jfile. Violet ta Yahry, a somewha Palaco of FontalnbleauConservatoryWigs helped The first report of the school was mad<' George Arllss, star or emaciated sister of Camillc. Mmle. Galli-Curci's impersonation of th< "Tho Green Goddess," now In Its tenth yesterday to tho American executlvis month at the Bootli Theatre, to get cough haunted heroine has long b< en familiar to her numerous admlreri into the committee at tho home of Mrs. Gcorgt}' profession of acting and also in this citv. It remains to be seen whether the will be wors< only cough Montgomery Tuttle, 103 Kant Into his "side lino" of play writing. or the singing better in a new entoiiirago. When the star of the William Archer street. She is presidentSeventyfifthof th<5 advenutre To the more studious of play was 14 years old his patrons opera who always attend Saturday American committee which is worklnf» adventure play was 14 years old his matinees the production of young Erich KorugoltKs "Die Tote Stadt" ot with the French Government to cst&b. a young cousin and many other children were Invited. The Saturday afternoon will be the principal incident of the first week o:r m lt»h the for stu cousin asked if lie m conservatory American might bring along two boy the reason. dents. of a musical comedy star friendssonsand her Korngold, the sou of a music critic in Vienna, is now 22 years old Kighty-flve Americans, constitutlnff husband, who also was upon the stage. The cousin Biisnresfrri that ha«lnr» aneH the largest of students ever sent t< He came before the world as a juivenile prodigy of composition when i; body theatrical luminaries in Uio tho Franco at one party, mere child. As lately as October 7, 191S, Violet Ewart. an Australiai time to study art, children should give a play. This was pianist, played his suite "Fairy Fi<:tures" in Carnegie Hall. On February) the school from Juno 25 to attendedagreed upon, but when tho day of the 25. The work was carried ou t party arrived tho cousin was unabio 21. 1914. in Aeolian llail. Miss Adicle Margulles and Septemberto Leopold J.lchtenberj under the direction ot' the French attend. Tho sons of tho musical played hiss sonata in G lor ;ind violin, a work artificial comedy star, however, did come, and piano cruelly ir; V of Beaux-Arts and tho miuiicl f istry they that Arliss fill melodic, harmonic and ids out MinI suggested young rhythmic as, displaying mastery of form am; * v ipallty of Fontainbkau. The historic oleI in for his cousin in the play. bold in !. That was originality iustruinentatioc The trio of the scherzo is beautifu place was turned ever to the student! tho first appearance of , Arllsa in a he ant" the slow movement shows a' of in a by the French Government for their us« George play, but made mazing maturity feeling boy many more was the % before ho first seen Rut oli" Canz had first brought Koi ugold's music to our notice in a > throughout summer. Mrs. Tutth before plant "'liit' gave pers>nu! supervision to the school professionally the footlights. He reel al two or three seasons earli er than the of the was fascinated by the glimpse into the production sonata of tho Amcrlcar1 ' taking general charge land of make believe was To operagoers his name will be er new, students matriculated there. and the prime itirely mover in the formation of a little A pamphlet a of "Dio Tote is Tho work of the schoo. was carriet pany to The and containing newspi per opinions Stadt" on under the give plays. cousin com! personal direction of suet the two eons of tho were before tlte writer. The general comsenaus of Teutonic reviewers is thai as PaaJ stage prominent French officials, eluded. A stago was fitted up in theIn1 this opera is the young man's best work, that it makes remarkable ust Leon, director of Peaux-Arts: Francif' home of Mr. Arliss's parents in Londou of the material in the Casadesus, director of the Fontainbleai1 and a long line of there, psychological libretto and that it contains some school: Maurice Frngnand, Charles plays produced B'«> Costumes and stago settings were a admirable characterization. Let u 'j Marie Widor, organist and perpetua rarity, but tho young Thespians had fervently hope that we shall fim f > secretary of the Academic Francaiue. wigs in plenty.obtained from the tl1 The first season of tho Fontainbleai mu' this to be the case Certainly if at sical comedy star and her husband. It Opera Metropolitan school was most successful. A se'ectei' seemed a pity to the young actors to there is there i3 - characterization, mme. marie jeritza !. AMELITA GALLI CURCI group of representative American mush let the wigs go to waste, as Mr. Arllsa clans went to ' something that has been absent frotin OPENING NIGHT. who her metropout MAKES HER METROPOLITAN France, and every courtesj explained the other night whilo he makes ' was shown them the French Govern opera or very feeble since Verdi' 8 by made ur> for his first act entrance In MONDAY. debut in" die tote stadt 'BUT zji"LA TRAVIATA ment. The Governors of more thai1 "The Green Goddess." So "Falstaff." The of a the dead M/SMKtN they put Etory the open "L.i Travlata," with Mmc. c city} © thirty-six States added their persona 1 their hoads together and invented a is not easy to tell. The book pron: Curci, Messrs. Glgll and Do Luea.Galll1- recommendation to that of tho leadinf" new play to fit each new wig as it musicians of the students' local com r ises well for am i made its appearance. The practice thus stage presentation WEDNESDAY. p munities. New York was representee1 gained stood Mr. Arllsa in good etead «ontaina excellent matter mus i- students. The Frencl for "Lohengrin," with Mmes. Easton and Vivid Dream by twenty-one tiuringr tno ten years tnat no spent eal exposition, but it ia hard to corl- Matzenauer, Messrs. Harrold and Stars of Musical Says Government has announced that ar travelling through the British provinces WhltehiU. rangcnients will be made for tho aceom in in old plays dense into a Sunday morning narrs 100 repertoire, doctoring if Charles Frohman modatlon of students in 1922, am and in writing new ones. The tlve. The book by Paul Scbott i 3 THURSDAY. World Will Be the committee is planning for tho ex instinct thus early aroused "Lucia di aminatlon of all applicants by this storytelling founded on Rodenbach's "Bruges 1 4 Lammernioor." with Mme. W "W « « spe' boro much fruit Mr. Arliss haslater Xort." Galli-Curei, Messrs. Gigli, Danlae Her in Role cial music board. written more than half a dozen plays. and Marjones. neara in concerts Helped Awards and highest honors, ineludlns Mis first professional appearance was The hero is the victim of an in medals, diplomas and prizes, wcro made at the age of eighteen upon the FttlDAY. ferred honor curable grief for his dead wife. Ife Hiss Helen Was 1 upon special studentscon.bj boards of the old Elephant and Castle surrounds himself with "evcrythln "Tosca," Miss Karrar, Messrs. Mi < Elisabeth Schumann to Hayes Tutored tho French Governinent after the Theatre In the East End of London, and BcottL course. In singing the followingsummer the of J. A. Cave. He ^ that keeps her image fresh in hia * Martlnelli in flie Art management under of Acting by awards were made: went en only a3 a us extra memory. Heneo when there s SATURDAY. Sing at First Strauss Viral ni-iMt V.llial Waal V.>« "super," appear men were then called, and had no before his unhung mind a dancer wli o Matinee . "I>ie Tote Stadt," Mme. the Late Producer. York; Arthur Kreeokman, Chicago, 111. lines to He received six ahHi is the SubscriptionEvent. Airs. speak. of living image the dead he eon Jeritza, Messrs. S em bach and I Clara Oakes Usher. Hlainvllle. tngs a week, equivalent to 11.00. By ceives a mad passion for her. Shci Meadtr. Evening . "Faust." with Conn.; Miss Ruth Kellogg Walte, the end of the ho was getting Bo* year must take the place of the wife. Theia Mme. Easton, Messrs. Chanilee, Do Miss Helen Hayes, who plays the Airs.