Show I SI PS l iNI FLATS Alice In grand opera In London line has been a I pleasant to friends shook their heads doubtfully when the American glut girl Who ho so SC great a n favorite In comic opera announced her Intention of ot del dei It mind and aiming at the highest Hut there thele Is IH no doubt now that the time former l Teller Know she was about lice Her debut In London lust last year lIr In Don 1 on Giovanni was ns 08 so no sue suc successful that the time Convent Conent Garden man a ment risked little In selecting her to slug sing to the till Don Jose of or Car Caruso uso lillO but her Interpretation of ot tie 18 role rola nt at the Opera House Houle have 1110 th their r Miss 1 ringing pinging of ot tho the principal role In 1 Ii La 1 established Item lur still further It H Is well known that owed much touch of ot his hili In Jim the tha l to the tho fact that the time ot or heed hint him ns 1111 a 1 battering batte ram rain lately I I h lies has Iwen beell n a lull In III the propaganda the Of or Max Kal becks life lite of ot that luH does iloe It mean It means m ane n a change chongo of oC tactics and of or Time Tile remain Ing of ot Wagner Vagner are arc now mak ing InA Strauss litmus their er or It Is very ery er funny but It I Is a fact tet Strauss 3 l Is on nil ardent admirer of ot Vagner an on Intimate friend of ot his hll family QUill but that doc not mint prevent a II certain clans dan of unintentionally funny tUlln mOil men from pushing him forward as cue the new now musical who makes Wag tier lieI wm u uS s as aft Since Shire his hlo visit isit to thin country wInter Colonne Colonno has han conduct conducted ed et in Homo 81 St Petersburg let In nd ati to U directing the of ot con calm that are a 11 feature of time the musical season lIell On In lit lie He will conduct tho tim thud pall pair of ot New Now York Phil harmonic concerts which will be he given on December 18 16 anti 17 11 Mr Air h Colonna Colonno will nio al o direct two performances of La Damnation dc tie I au aut t h will viii bs hI given Ien by b the tho Cecil Choral Society III in Boston Bo ton In December J 19 and amId 20 O 0 Except that the tho wall vas oven even I longer and louder and nd Mr Mrs Gilbert un unusually usually moved nn am she ho spoke poke the epi pl logue hogue to Granny her appearance at mut the he Lyceum theater New York was WIS without incident The audience sang Auld Lang lg Syne and nn tho the old oh ull Udy IAly quavered I thank you thank you OU nil 11 nil 11 of ot you nut Hut they thoy and she have hao been doing that every oey eIt night for or her imer he three weeks at Rt tho the Lyceum In fact act she sh Ims ho been ben making not one ono but 21 farewell appearances and eld each frh of ot the 24 it has haa hl taken time the occasion us as lS Its particular farewell to her he Under nn ito 10 circumstances will she ilie he act art In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York again There will vili wi be no ito 10 now new taro faro farewells wells That Is her imer Dimple ward WEn way with her ler public Doston composer wrote to tOr Charles I Frohman the time other day Ie asking Alk n per to turn The Admirable Crich ton Into Inlo comic opera opra The question que ton had to t be referred to Mr II Barrio In London Mme me triumph In Germany has hR ranged from to 10 Wagner from toni fairy fair operettA to the trilogy liar Her first essay In h hums haa been Loves Lottery Lotter Perl Is getting eling together a I strong company for tor the new musical venture A Soldier of ot Love which he I l Is IH soon MOi to produce In the east elet Viola Gillette hiliette Walter Jones Joseph Jo ph Miron Henry and Ind lute Hito Hlo will viii bo Important members member of or tha cast Carmen has hns been sung sting In New NewYork NewYork tW York with wih big bl casts but at It I was itane lue the other day under clr cir la not to be duplicated here hers The place placa of ot the time performance was WIS tho time bull hull ring In the tho last lut act Carmen and arrived la In a mu I carriage a Pro pre preceded 1110 coded ceded by 1 ii amid ami and amid the opera ended cadet H n genuine bullfight Another 1 II celled censo live wn that lint Carmen larmen was IS allowed to Ides Les line Ims had 1111 lOIS 1018 performances at the Paris opera opra Faust comes next with wih Wagner was mas 8 kept out nut of ot that Opera House by Chauvinism until hiti 19 but sInce that time no performances of or his operas pers have h e been given glen there As 1 s tho the receipts on Wagner nights average over 00 and amid the composer gets gele 10 per cent cant Frati Wagner has hn received Paris alone In 13 1 years e rs |