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THE WASHINGTON POST SUNDAY JUNE 10 1906 Music and Musicians BY BERENICE THOMPSON American composers who are complaining that the present copyright law Is inadequate for their protection criticise the statute In some details but do not mani fest any objections to its provisions as a wnoie According to Arthur Crisneld an authority on the history of copyright enactments in the United States the original provisions of the pountrvn mrvrri ht law have been amended and Increased or J1 onaar I81 pte a novel P1 aaa tn ti tor collecting of funds to apply to by rote and save themselves the expense of buying a copy of the music If no royalty Is paid composers by the talking machine companies it seems at least as though the courts should grant them damages for some of the caricatures played by Uiese mechanisms under the guise of faithful reproductions The Choral Society at Its board meeting last Monday night adopted a novel plan added to from time to time by Congress until now they are the product not only of the minds which first composed them but of the thought and consideration of the various legislators who have passed upon and altered them from time to time Of course the beginnings of our copy Tight legislation were made In the time a hen we were colonies of England and looked to Great Britain for our government During the Revolutionary period each colony for itself attempted to protect authors by copyright law The first to enact such a law was Connecticut when in 17S3 a committee reported on the subject of literary works and a measure relative to such productions was passed Massachusetts New Jersey and New Hampshire followed Connecticuts example in the same year In 1784 acts were put through in Pennsylvania and South Carolina In the following year Irginla and North Carolina passed acts securing to authors of literary works an exclusive proprietorship thereof and in 17S6 Georgia and New York enacted laws for the encouragement of literature and genius Mr Crisneld knows of no copyright law oassed by Delaware In 17K7 the Constitution provided that Congress have power to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for a 1mited time to authors the exdusU right to their respective writings and discoveries By this article the States surrendered to the general government the right to enact copyright laws and patent legislation The first act under the constitutional power thus granted was at the second session of the First Congress in 1790 end was entitled An act for the encouragement of learning by securing tne copies or maps cnarts and books to tne aumors ana proprietors or sucn copies during the times therein mentioned According to this act pased Miy 81 registration of the title of the work to be copyrighted wa made in the Jistrict court and a copy of It was deposited with the Department of State A second act supplementary to this was dated July 29 180 It was about that time a question arose as to whether a common law right of copyright might not exist in the United States Independent of the enactments of Congress This problem was finally disposed of In the case of Wheaton against Peters and the decision made that there was such common law rlsrht In 1S19 and 1S31 acts were passed by Congress amend ing or extending the provisions relative to the rights of authors and their works Inder the act of 1S31 It was provided tr at no person shalr be entitled to the benefits of the law unless he shall deposit a printed copy of the title of such book or other work in the clerks office of the district court of the district wherein the author or proprt tor shall reside and tla the clerk of th court shall coord ame In a book kept for the purpose Tl is art contained provisions relating to the Irertion of a copyright notice In rver ccp of the book or other article copyrighted and for the purpose of preventing the infringement of the copyright and enforcing penalty on those who disobeyed the law a copjr of the copyrighted article was required to be delivered to the district clerk within hree months after the date of publication One June 3 ISM Congress voted to reg ulate the acknowledgment of deeds for next seasons work It wu decided that the society and all its friends should organize a theater party to attend the performance of the Guy Standing Stock Company on Monday evening June 18 at the Columbia Theater This night will be known as Choral Society night and all the members of the Choral Society and their friends are asked to take part in the sale of tickets The net proceeds will be donated to the society by the management of the Columbia Theater and If the bouse auditorium can be filled a goodly sum will be netted for the cause of music The officers of the Choral Society for the coming season elected last Monday are President Bernard Green vice president Dr Edwin Hill treasurer Staslus Meade financial secretin George Tucker secretary David I Selke and librarian Daley These officers were elected by a single ballot cast by the members present for the ticket presented by a nominating committee Messrs Sonneck John Roberts and Prank By ram A committee of five was named to nominate a conductor and accompanist for the coming season and a resolution looking toward the betterment of the financial condition of the society was introduced Miss Mary A Cryder in a letter from Paris resigned from the board and her resignation was accepted with regret Miss Cryders successor is Albert Osgood The next board meeting will be held June 21 A new opera by Victor Herbert will be produced In the fall It has not yet been named John Philip Sousa left Washington yesterday for New York He was a constant attendant at the copyright hearings held last week at the Library of Congress and was one of the speakers before the Joint Committee on Patents The annual concert by pupils of Mme Keith and Miss Beatrice Keith took place on Tuesday of last week at Typographical Hall when solos were given by Misses Mary Mattingly Mabel Grlgsoy Elsie Berrj Margaret Mathes Florence Hayden Sallle Walcott Ethel Doe Mary Abendschelm Marie Walcott Beryl Trogner Alma Torts Ada Baker Mary Murray Helen Howison Helen Grigsby Bessie Brown Emma Grigsby Celeste Whltacre A Claire Murray Emma Krehbiel Mary Baur man A May Grigsby Messrs Earl Martin Frederick Baker Douglass Gibson Jr Walter Burrit Brock and Loraine Saur Ensemble numbers were given by Iralne Saur and Mary Murray Emma Mabel and May Grigsby Pearl and Mabel Grigsby ImuIs ralbert Frederick and Ada Baker and Sallie Walcott and Louise Talbert special chorus of all the eighth grades A special chorus sang Mammys Voice Loomis Starry Sky Tippet Uy Hearts in the Highlands Jensen and Sullivans The Lost Chord Miss Alys Bentley director of music In the public schools is forming a house party qf musicians who will take a vacation in the Adlrondacks this summer It Is expected that Mme Samaroff will be one of the party A feature of the programme of the fortieth studio recital by the pupils of Oscar Franklin Comstock next Wednesday wIl De ine rnew ive songs the Largnetto from Beethovens second symphony Frederick Field Bullards adaptation of Schuberts Who Is Sylvia Maurice Arnolds tuneful Canadian Boat Song George MacFarrena The Three Fishers Horatio Parkers The Robbers Chadwick The Stormy Dvening and Huss Crossing the Bar A girls chorus sang Schuberts Serenade and Sullivans The Lost Chord ten members of the school mandolin orchestra gave Victor Kerbere Badinage and Mantis Valse Bleue a quartet composed of Misses A Atchi porrand Grossart and Messrs of Jonanes Harnsburger and Woodman Jr mu iii pwasing manner mjvl19 oianie The Bischoff pupils recitals absorbed the early weeks musical interest to the preclusion of other matters save the hearings on the new copyright bill The twenty seven students who took part on Monday evening gave the following programme March Triumphal Buck organ Miss Lila McBath Sing Me to Sleep Green Miss Nan Wheatley Star of My Soul Bischoff Miss Mary Belle Nelson I Love You Sobeski Miss Mary Moore Leave Me Not Mattei Miss Effle Brooke Honor and Arms other article should be delivered to the LI I Hughes brarian of Congress and one the lbri Edith 1 th transfer or assignment of copyrhts from Handel Samson Walter Klm and for the recording of them in the ball Si Jal Tals Jardenler Chamlnade proper office On August 10 1S4S the Miss Reine Rochon My Heart at Thy Twentj ninth Congress provided that one 1 Sweet Voice from Salnt Saens Samson ropj ot anv copyrighted boK nun or and Delilah Miss Ljdia Richards Imperfectus Bischoff Mrs Tweedale In Native Worth nan of tne Smithsonian institution witnn from Haydn Creation Dr John three months after publication Ths McMichael Sunset Buck Miss Bessie deposits were intended for the enrichment Walker Cherry Ripe Horn and of said libraries In 1S55 the econd ss Love Has Eyes Bishop Miss Florence sion of the Thlrtv third Congress i greed a Pierce A Summer Night Thomas that all such articles eent through the Miss lrma Stern Villanelle Dell Ac mails should go free of postage qUa Miss Lena Woodruff Magnetic The act of August 18 1856 passed by the Waltz Ardit Mrs A Drake Oh first tession of the Thirty fourth Con vision Entrancing from Thomas Es prano soloist Miss Eva Frederick Dawson tenorEdwin X4tMil ler bass and Misses Susie Hurwell Estelle Thorn Emma BowenfMMary Schick Mrs Vivian Wood Mrs Frederick Sillers and Messrs Roger Stuart TT Barton Easby James Schick Warned Hollister and Arthur Gash A four aarid Miccompaniment will be given by Aif Wes Helen Calhoun and Marguerite Williams At the Washington College of Music commencement exercises in Columbia Theater next Friday afternoon the pupils who will take part will be Miss Gertrude Reuter Miss Ada Birch Misses Sue Mur ray Mae Buckler Miss Mabel Owen and Miss Ouida Wheelock Harold Eisenberg the new violin teacher of the college will play WIenaWskis concerto the Washington College of Music Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra will play a selection another will be played by the quintet of the college the annual announcements will be made by Sydney Lloyd Wright son the president and an address will be given by Col James Frazer of Mor gantown Va AVpecial course will be open to students and teachers from July 2 to September 8 Messrs Wrightson Smith Holt Koehler Mrs Burroughs and Mrs McKee remaining at the college throughout the heated term Musically inclined persons desiring to attend this recital may secure invitations by calling at the college An interesting musicale was given by the Analostan Boat Club on Saturday last week Tle programme Included Nevus Choristers of Magdalen by the members of the Carroll Institute Glee Club under the direction of William Clbaugh a piano solo Miss Arley Mott contralto solo Miss Lillian Chenoweth tenor solo Elaine Bartlett by Charles Myers violin solos Adoration of Borowski and Dtdlas Serenade Miss Minna Helnrichs soprano solo Aylwards Beloved It Is Morn Mrs Katherine Rogers barytone solos Cuchols Toreadors Song William Clabaugh a group of songs by George OConner and Dudley Bucks arrangement of Robin Adair by the Gec Club The accompanists were Mrs Goodhue Miss Glenrfan Mr Desmond and Mr Muth Wilberfoss Owst a well known composer will spend ten weeks in England this summer He has been engaged to write a musical setting for The Indent Mariner which will be published upon his return to this country He has aisoi promised to write a cantata which he will dedicate to Mr Wrightson and the Washington Concert Choir At the Joint recital of Miss McFall and Mr Arnold last Friday at which George Webber Vail assisted the programme Included Rachmaninoffs Prelude and Chopins Fantasie Impromptu played in a masterful way by Mr Vail Herberts I Envy the Bird Macbowells Thy Beaming Eyes Corliss Star of My Life Metcalfs Absent Verdis La Donna Mobile Troteres Rose in Heaven and Tostis My Dreams by Mr Arnold and Chamlnades LEte Wlels Herbstfruehllngslied and Fruehlingslled Needhams We Two Together Spross Jean and Lanes Tatters by Miss McFall a young singer who Is endowed with very promising musical gifts The programme concluded with a duet We Will Watch Tosti sung by Miss McFall and Mr Arnold Brahms In which the following singers will take part Miss Elsie Sillers so i Smiths spng Night and Tostis Vene Covell Jailor iUiau Sortg Mfss At Atchison 09 gave two soprano solos Miss Grossart 09 two con tralto numbers and Woodman 09 bass selections one of which was Bisch orrThe Rose I Give You The whole concert was skillfully managed and directed by Hblstead Hoover 4 Beautiful renditions by Mrs Blanche Mattingly Rogers soprano Bertha Lucas Stoddard violinist and Mrs Mary Byrd organist made up the music atthe wedding of Miss Joan Reeves daughter of Commander Reeves of this city to Dr Frank Duffey of New York last Monday in St Pauls CatholicChurch Bragas Angels Serenade sung by Mrs Rogers with violin obligate was especially enjoyable Charles Rabold a barytone well and favorably known to Washingtonians both I as a singer and teacher is In Washington and will sing an aria from Sterndale Bennetts Woman oft Samaria at St Stephens Church Columbia Heights this morning at the 11 oclock service Mr Rabold has just completed a most successful year as musical Instructor at Yale Miss Jessie Glennan gave a most enjoyable musicale for her pupils on Monday night at her studio The young students acquitted themselves creditably and pleased the large audience which consisted mainly of their parents and friends Some violin selections by Lillian Koechllng added to the pleasure of the evening Among those who took part were Misses Jennie Atchison Margaret Coyne Dbrothy Daly Margaret Glennan Laura and lrma Boeckstyn Aubrey Leh weltzer and Robert Martin Miss Clara Drew will sail from New York June 20 going directly to Paris where she will SDend most of her tlmel in study On her way home she will isit Germany and England returning on October 1 to resume her teaching and concert work In Washington After an absence of three years Richard Burmelster the well known pianist and head of the piano department of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Dresden will spend the summer in America arriving in New York on the Kaiserin Au gusta Victoria June IS Re Intends to visit some of his friends In New York and Boston Although he recently received a flattering offer from the College of Music In Chicago he will return to Europe In tne rail to fuinu lys numerous concert engagements A recital will be given by the pupils of Glenn Correll Thursday evening June 14 at Carroll Institute Hall Among other selections the first movement of the Mo zart major concerto and the romance from his major concerto both for piano will be Dlayed The eleventh and last recital of the pupils of the MacReynolds Koehle music school at St Johns College last night Introduced soloists selected With great care fiom those who have distinguished fhem selves at former studio recitals this sea son All of the participants are pupils of the primary and intermediate classes and nearly all between the ages of seven and fifteen A noticeable feature of the recital was that every one of the performers had memorized his or her selections Miss Katherine MacReynoIds and her staff of teachers was congratulated for the fine results of the years work The programme was as follows Compositions for violins in unison and piano by Misses Elizabeth Wilbur Edna Snyder Minnie Tromeyer Maria Menzel Olga Menzel Elizabeth Day and Master George Denny Gurlltts Hunting Song for piano Master Francis Waiter Chamlnades Pastorale Enfantlne for piano Miss Helen Swonnstedt a Ger man folk song of Gruenwald for violin Miss Olga Menzel Virgils Valse Lnte for piano Miss Edith Everman another German folk song Master George Denny Splndlers Barcarolle for piano Miss Virginia Silvester a Moszkowskl Spanish dance for piano duo Misses Rebecc i and Martha Rose Sitts Scherzo for lio lln Miss Maria Menzel Klnhners Album Leaf for piano Miss Frances Cis son Sitts Romance for violin Miss Minnie Trom yer Beethovens Album Leaf for piai Miss Gladys Farring ton Sitts Valse for violin Fernand Petit Hummels piano corcerto in major third movement Miss Elizabeth Day Bachs Loure for violin Jlss Mary Wheatley Deli be Valse Lente for piano Miss Edith Murray Moszxowskts Spanish dance for violin Miss Edna Snyder Massenets Arragonale for pl aro Miss Virginia Wallls Starks Bourree for violin Miss Elizabeth Day and the Childrens Symphony a musical burlesque of Haydn for piano violins tov instruments and chorus by thirty pupils Mme Esputa Daly has returned to the city after a weeks visit to Asbury Park and New York At the latter place Mme Daly was entertained and sang at a musicale at the studio of Carlos Sanche a well known tenox She also sang the solo contralto portions of The ElHah with Paul urault another oromincnt tenor of this city whose ew York studio she will probably oc cu during his absence this summer SPECIALS FOR THIS WEEK Large Rattan Rockers full roll all the way down Regularly 4 Thi0 Jr week iHO 3 piece Colonial Mahogany rarlor bultes assorted cover ings Regularly 45 This week 83450 After a Century Italian Will Succeed French Opera in New Orleans gres conferred the benefits of copyright upon the author or proprietor of any dramatic composition designed or intended for putlic representation with attaching penalties for infringement On Feb ruarv 1839 an act was passed providing that all books or other copyrightel material formerlv deposited in the btate Department should be removed to and be under the control of the Department of the Interior In a law passed on February 18 1M1 the right of appeal from the decision of the Circuit Court to the Supreme Court of the United States was extended Photographs wore included in i material to be copyrighted through the act of March 3 1S65 and the word book I nnde to mean every volume or part of a olunie together with the maps charts and engravings belonging to It The vear 1S67 saw the passage of a geneial act which among other things merelda Wiley Davis a concerto of Handel Miss Jeannette Baker EIn Schwan Grieg and Oufre Tes Yeux Bleus Massenet Miss Blanche Browning Israfel King Miss Margaret Standiford Summer Chamlnade Miss Virginia Gertrude Miller aria Roberto il Dlavolo Miss Laura Collison aria Queen of Sheba Gounod Miss Ruth Haves Angus McDonald Roeckel Mrs Richard Burkhart aria Jeanne dArc Tchaikowskl Miss Alleen Miller Magic Song Mej er Helmund Mrs Smart HerbeVs Gypsy Jan from The Fortune Telrer Herbert Law son Rodes Oh Dolce Cante Mrs Isaac Scott On Wednesdav nights programme the vocal numbers were Dnizttis Iuc3 dl quest anima OI rs Elsie Bond Bischoff Ah Moon of Mv Delight from Leh manns The Persiin Girden three lmnosed a penalty of 23 on any one who having secured a copyright failed to I songs of Bischoff Love Sings the Lark deposit a copv of the material in the The Summer Wind dedicated to Mrs LlDrar of Congress within oie month Bayly and The Rose I Give You from the date of publication to this Donizettis scene and cavatina Anna Bo time copyrights had been secured bv i lena Miss Edna Scott Smith BischofTs proceedings taken in the clerks office Good Night Sweet Dreams Columbia of the district court of the district where Quartet Club Verdis Bolero Vepri In the applicants resided An amend Sicilianl Mrs Shir Cliff de Ko ment was added to this in 1870 nowever vens Legend of the Bell from Rob wherein It was provided that all records in Hood Miss Smith and choir Meyer ad other matter relating to copyright beers The Monk Herbert Lawson which the law requires to be preserved Verdis don fataie from Don Car shall be kept in the Library of Congress los Miss Pauline Whitaker Salve jnder the Immediate care and supervision DImorah from Faust Gounod of the librarian The librarian was in Nevins The Rosary Mrs John Hum structed to prepare a seal which he did end this seal is still in use in the copyright office By the ect of December 1 1873 it was provided that all records and papers in connection with copyright processes should be authenticated by this seal Further amendments were made June 18 1S74 relating to prints and labels in the act of March 3 1879 with reference to the transmission of foreign newspapers through the mails and on August 1 1882 in connection with molded and decorative articles On March 3 189L the law now in force known as the international copyright act was passed and under this law citizens or subjects of foreign countries arc allowed copyright privileges In this country after complying with certain requirements In foreign countries only one condition must be compiled with in securing a copyright but 4n this country there are three all of which must be fulfilled One troublesome provision for foreigners is that they are asked to place their articles on public sale or exhibition on the same day in both Europe and America Since 1S91 there have been several small enactments relative to copyright that are for the most part lessjmportant than those heretofore men tioned The section of the new copyright bill which is troubling the composers is as follows Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America In Congress assembled that the copyright secured by this act shall include the sole and exclusive right to make sell distribute or let for hire any device contrivance or appliance especially adapted in any manner whatsoever to reproduce to the ear the whole or any material part of any work published and copyrighted after this act shall have gone Into effect or by means of any such device or appliance publicly to reproduce to the ear the whole or any material part of such work The manufacturers of talking singing and playing machines argue that the reproduction of a copyrighted piece of music on a cylinder is not dissimilar to the per forming of It by a singer on the stage The composers viewpoint is that the two are vastly different for stage rendition kelps the sale of musical works whereas the reproduction of a song in one of these machines Induces people to learn the sons phrey Rossinis Inflammatus from Stabat Mater Mrs Shir Cliff and choir She Alone Charmeth My Sadness from Gounods Queen of Sheba Walter Humphrey Verdis cavatina from Erna ni Mrs Clay Browning and selec tions from Barnetts Ancient Mariner by the choir The vocal numbers sung by Mrs Dayelle Taylor Welch on Tuesday were Mozirts Vol che sapete from Le Nozzs dl Figaro Haydns My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair Arnes Polly Willis Coleridge Taj lors Loves Passing Del Riegos Happy Song Massenets aria Le Cid Prochs Air and Variations and the cycle Summertime of Ronald Genral comment anent the greatly increased richness of Miss Morans voice and the finish of her Interpretations was heard at her song recital in Mrs Oldbergs studio last Friday Her programme In which she was assisted by William Clabaugh barytone included the aria from Goring Thomas Nadeshda The accompaniments were beautifully glven by Mrs Oldbcrg and Harrison Moore Mr Clabaugh gave an excellent rendition of the von Fielltz cycle Eliland At the musicale in the Eastern High School on Friday afternoon a chorus of children under the direction of Mrs Frank Byram and Miss BenUey sah several selections with good intonation enunciaUon and rhythm Of especial note was the work of the boys who showed much talent and adaptability Miss Bent ley sang several numbers and received a deserved ovation from the 500 admiring children present The programme included Schumanns Hey Baloo by girls of th eighth grade Mendelssohns Autumn pupils from the Edmunds School and his Greeting by students of the Hayes and Blake schools Tauberfs Good night children from the Brent School Kovens Recessional chorus from the Peabody School Blue eyed Grass Gil chriso Hilton School pupils Clayton Johns Wind of the Sea chorus from the Towers School two songs by all of the eighth grades Blow Blow Stevens pupils from the Wallach and Gales schools Gilchrists Norse Lullaby children of the Maury School Loves OU Sweet Song pupils of the Lenox School and Old Kentucky Home by the bovs of that school adaptation by Tracey and Sweet Spirit on Summer The Feast of the Trinity will be observed at Trinity Church to day by the singing of an elaborate programme of music as follows Morning complete Communion Service in Calkin offertory Thus Saith the Lord Behold I Will Create from Gauls The Holy City ascription Thou Art Worthy Lord Gilbert ablution anthem Psalm CXVII Gregorian tone No 1 There will be a choral service In the evening consisting of Proper Psalms Anglican chants the evening service in Calkin anthem I Will Sing of Thy Power Sullivan offertory Thine Is the Kingdom from Gauls The Holy City and ascription Thou Art Worthy Lord Gilhert All will be under the direction of Oscar Franklin Comstock the organist About sixty five of the violin and niano pupils of Wilberfoss Owst will partlci 1 pate in Ms annual recitals on Thursday and Friday evenings of this week at Pythian Hall The pupils will be assisted by Miss Mabel Bendler soprano on Thursday and by Miss Bertha Hansen soprano on Friday Miss Grace Stratton of the Virgil Clavier School this city and Miss Georgia Miller the director have spent the week in Frederick attending the commencement exercises of tne Womans College there On Thursday morning Mlsa Stratton gave an Impromptu recital at the Academy of the Visitation affording pleasure to all present The closing pupils recital of the Washington Conservatory of Music on Thurs day evening was attended by a large audience which filled the rooms the institution and left standing room at a premium Those who took part were Misses Ida Douglass Elsie Brown Jane Ryder Mary Johnson Emma Patterson Clara Sheafe Kathleen Peebles Gladjs Freeman Eulah Ross Rosabelle Lane Bessie Patterson Belle Wilson Edna Grey Ruth Grlmshaw and Holcombe Master Hvland Hayes and Messrs Ernet Amos Arthur Hurley Frank Brown ad Grant They gave musical numbers by Low Behr Henkel Beethoven Schar wenka Schuett Bach Tctaalkowsky Durand Grelg Heller Salnt Saens Cho pin ccKen nuiiaK apmi Jclerldge Tay lor and MacDowell and recitations from Dunbar Will Carleton and Sir Walter Scott The entertainment was under the direction of Miss Harriet Gibbs Spciil CoiTponIenc of The Washington Post New Orleans June 6 HE French Opera House Is for the first time in its history to abandon the opera with which its history has been connected Sometimes there has been no season of opera at all At others there has been opera bouffe or a dramatic company has been brought over from France but whenever here was opera that is to say the regular season of the theater it was in French Occasional companies sang In English German or Italian Next season there Is to be a season of opera in Italian Then weeks have been granted by the French Opera Association to an imDresario who promises perform nnB in Italian Alice Nielsen is to be brilliancy the theater was totally destroyed by fire It was promptly rebuilt by John Davis In 1826 Lafayette visited the theater and listened to a cantata composed especially in his honor There were still disputes between the managers of the old theaters St Philllpe and the Theater dOrleans but the artistic importance of the former was declining rapidly Both English and French performances were given there Tyrone Power who came to this city at the time found the theatrical life of New Orleans more interesting than that of New York or Philadelphia There was drama in plenty in those days and the rival managers sought to outdo one another in their generosity to the public Sometimes both an opera and ances in iiau the light soprano of the company and I vaudeville would be given on the same Bnm of the other singers to be associat ed with her will be Mmes Nordica and Various causes have led to this radical change The companies at the French Opera House have not been up to the standard in recent seasons Critical disapproval was expressed so strongly in enmo niiartora last winter that the impre sario retorted with libel suits It is plain popular singers in opera tnat tne opera evenin and a drama was rarely offered alone In 1831 a Spanish troupe came from Havana and played to crowded houses at the Theater dOrleans They sang In Au bers La Dame Blanche Excellent companies were brought out every year from Paris and in 1837 came Julie Calve destined to be one of New Orleans most Miss Marie von Inschuld returned Sat urday from her Western trip having Deen especianv successful in a concert given before the Federation of Womens Clubs a convention of 5000 women which held its fifth biennial meeting in St Paul Minn She reports several new engagements for next season and resumes her Washington classes on Monday The annual spring concert of Central High School Friday evening maintained the high standard of concert performance Washington people have come to look for in the public schools A chorus of 225 voices carefully selected om among first year pupils sang with a fresh resonant quality and faithfulness of expression Edgar StIIlman Kelleys arrangement of PROFESSIONAL CARDS Virgil Clavier Piano School 118 St Phone East 438 NORTHWEST STUDIO 1329 HISS GEORGIA MILLER DIRECTOR Ortlflcat tmpll A Virgil CUM ml PrlTtU Lmaon Fhnlcal Cultars Clrenlv tn Kew Orleans however Is not up to the standard that a city of Its size should expect Although the Grau company which brought the leading singers of the world to New Orleans played to enormous business the press was not disposed to consider the performances superior to those given by our own company That was mere loyalty to a home institution however and the public saw the superiority of the New York organization to a degree that created deep dissatisfaction In the same way a traveling opera company giving performances in English showed its superiority to our company Its performance of Die Walkuere made such a profound Impression that Char ley impresario of the Frencn opera House invited the singers to appear at the old theater on the Sunday night following their engagement at one of the city tljeaters New Orleans is proud of its history as the only American city besides New York that ever supported grand opera continuously The French Opera Associate makes liberal enough terms to the Impresario For ten weeks he has a guarantee of something like J70000 In addition to this sum there is the assur ance of liberal patronage if the performances are good But the French performances are ended at least temporarily after a continuance of more than 100 years de Baron celle who has preserved In very Interesting fashion the records of the French theater In New Orleans finds that it began in 1791 when a troupe of French MRS OLDBERG TEACHER OF 8INQINC Studio Belaseo Theater MRSDF BARR1NGER 92 1 Street Graduate of Prof Rohrers Institute ot New York and Paris gives Sclentina Treatment of Face and Scalp by the New ELECTRO VIBRO SYSTEM For special appointments phone Main B90 players arrived here under the direction of Louis Tabary They played In one place and another under a tent like their distinguished compatriot of the present day and finally settled In a house on the Rue St Pierre which Is to day known as 716 There were many exciting scenes In this first French theater for most of the actors were sympathizers with the revolution then raging in France and never hesitated to interrupt the performance to sing Xa Carmagnole or Ca ira Every night before the rising of the curtain the stage manager would recite the events of the day It was not until 1803 that these performances became artistic enough to merit notice Between that time and 1807 when a row between police and citizens led to the closing of th theater serious dramas and an occasional opera were performed The first regular theater built here was to succeed these productions which had been made In a transformed dwelling house In 1808 the Theater St Pierre built by a syndicate on the same site opened its doors In this theater operasx were sung including Brieldieus Ma Tante Au rore Its career came to an end In 1810 In a measure because of the popularity of the newly opened Theater St Philllpe which had been built by a company on the site of the present school of that name It brought singers and actors from France and one of their novelties was Une Folie byMehul For brief season in 1817 an English company under the management of Ludlow played In this theater appearing first In Tobins comedy The Honeymoon This was the beginning of the English speaking theater here There were French plays the next year but James Caldwell destined to make such fortune later by introducing gas into New Orleans began In 1820 a season of English plays He continued there until 1832 As early as 1809 the Theater dOrleans was planned It was finished late same year and was regarded as architectural ornament to the Rue Orleans In the I a great I Rue St I This old lady who later married Charles Boudourquie a director of the opera house died here in 1898 For many years she was a beloved singer In the opera house appearing in a wide range of parts which included such divine roles as Ro salna and Leonore in La Favorita But she was at her best in the light soprano i oles It was through a happy meeting with Rossini that she came to the operatic stage She was a poor girl daughter of an officers widow in Toulouse when the great composer heard her singing and gained her a place In the Conservatoire at Paris When she was graduated in 1834 it was with the highest honors possible She had only been out of her school for three jears when at the age of twenty two she came to New Orleans bringing her singing teacher along with her When Emma Cilve had her first great success here the former favorite WTOte her namesake of her great delight that another Mile Calve was winning honors to the great glory of France No other woman was so closely allied with the history of the French opera here Her American fame extended beyond the borders of this city for she appeared with success in Philadelphia and New York The repertoire of the Theatre dOrleans In these days makes interesting reading Then were in their prime works long since out of style Aubers operas were in thejr first bloom and Les Domlnos Noirs was a great favorite Donizettis Anne de Boleyn was received with great favor In these years the orchestra consisted of thirty two men which was certainly a sufficient number for the music it had to perform In 1840 August Nounlt tae tenor brother of the greater fenor of the same name came to New Orleans and in Meyerbeers Robert le Diable then a novelty became the idol of the public In 1813 La Favorita was one of the successes of the season Among the most popular novelties in 1847 were La Fille du Regiment William Tell and La Juive Henry Clay witnessed some of the performances during the winter and VIeuxtemps the faimous violinist gave several concerts at the opera house that year It was a luxurious wealthy pleasure lovlhg public that patronized the opera house then and the seasons met with great financial success John Davis the director was compelled in 1845 to put a third balcony In the tlfeater to accommodate the slaves who accompanied their masters to the play There were some interesting Incident connected with the last years of the Theater dOrleans destined soon to lose its glories as the home ot opera The packet boat Louisiana blew up that year In the river killing more than 200 persons and for a month the theater was deserted At about this time Lucia di Lammermoor had its first appearance and Halveys Charles VI et ses Vassaux and the same composers Val dAndore were sung for the first time Mme Devries a famous dramatic sonrano and first of the family of that name was singing with great success tn New Orleans at this time She Introduced Donizettis Lucrezia Borgia and La Reine de Chypre An Italian troupe under Max Marttzekcang for a short season Lola Montez after making her debut In a smaller theater had to come to the foremost playhouse ot the city and appear In MHe de la Seig Here She had a great triumph The glory of the Theater dOrleans as the home of operadeparted forever wnen the present Frencn opera House was Anne In 1813 after a career of great1 built An accident tothe old house made We Extend Credit at Cash Prices Magnificent Mahogany Dressers with large French plate mirrors Ree ularly 26 This week 1800 This Handsome White Enameled Bed including iron frame woven wire spring and good felt mattress Regularly 35 This week iPOw Genuine North Star Refrigerators cork lined quality guaranteed bpecial cut price 35 75 Massive All brass Beds of high grade construction Regu larly oo 1 nis week 2250 We Guarantee AH We Sell This high grade Reclinine Go cart finely woven reed body best steel gearing rood parasol Regularly 14 This week S925 UUL Polished Quartered Oak Box seat Dining Chairs SpeciaHhis ety week LANSBURGH FURNITURE CO Inter Ocean Building 512 Ninth Slreef it plain that the city needed a theater worthy of Its size and importance The present theater was finished in November 1859 and opened with a performance of II Trovatore on December 2 There wis a dramatic company as well There were excellent companies during the succeeding years and artists who were subsequently applauded In New York sang first at the famous French Opera House Anna Belocca Castelmary Louisa Lallache Marie Litta and Petrovitch were some of the artists who came to know this country first in New Orleans Adellna Patti sang with the company from time to time and Amalia appeared at the opera house in concert In IsCb there was an Italian trotrpe for a few per formances but the language of opera here had to be French In 1887 Pappen helm brought Adelaide Phillips Charles Adams and Tagliapletra and Gerster came In 1881 with Strakosch Throughout all these years the French opera continued the 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