Show OPERA FOR AMERICANS I TO BE A AMERICAN MADE MAD The American Grand Opera tion of or New York City has launched i a aplan plan to conduct a n. national road tou tour presenting presenting- Cadman and Brell Breil operas In In more moro than fifty cities in this country It will present the two short American n operas The Legend gend and s. s that were successfully produced by the Metropolitan opera house in New York last season l 1 A circular from this association says ears The Tho active assistance of municipal authorities chambers of ot commerce ro ro rotary o tar tary club clubs fl local chapters of ot the Amelean Amer Ame lean Ican Legion Lesion various arlous m musical associations lions and leading ne newspapers papers has al read ready been volunteered in some forty for cities and tho the association states that tha It is now warranted In making a defInite der nite announcement that a national tour will positively ely be bo made In the very ne nea future The new venture ventura will wilt be conducted b by an experienced staff of wor worker r headed by Richard G G. G Herndon genera general vv viii u L oi Ul uno IHO L' L J aw V clet for foe Musical Art and his associated associate Frank Frnnk Taylor Talor whose headquarters head head- quarters will be In the Cent Century ry TheaU Theat bund building New eW York CIl City f The plan provides for tours dunn during durin succeeding years ears with other works b American n composers presenting Amerlean Amer Amer- lean artists and employing America Americ elements clements throughout in their production j tion Uon 3 Tho The achievement of ot the sought b by the this American Grand OP Open association In ts pioneer work in city must necessarily depend on c coi COR support of ot the public at ia a 5 aroused b by a 1 vigilant committee not honorary free tree from rom cliques an ar Jealousies As Ast a vocal ocal point the concert course with an already assure patronage offers perhaps th the tho best m nu to afford a hearing under 1 tf tu most auspicious circumstances circumstance I Tho The Legend and Inte Ini Intel esting as as tho the first American ope open conceded successful and favored by number of oC performances at tho the MetrO MetrOpolitan politan opera house still sun are tar lar outside New ew York Tho The orchestra an Inte integral ral conducted 1 the tho composers of tho tim operas Chart Wakefield Cadman and Joseph Did Bre adds prestige o to the occasions occasion T Ti Tl Tt i appearance of Tsianina an America Indian around whoso whose life lito and peno alit allt allty was written and I I another American stress sons for tor or wh who The he Legend was composed add adds charm of novelty no The Tue selection of at t tw distinctive casts and their alternate a double quartet of tr trained ll e aspiran for tor principal honors and a cho chon chor culled from vocal l studios strung the continent should engage Je the atte alle tion lion of all music lovers lo Tho The event W wl excite the tho curiosity of those who tend all the big bib functional affair II Iron FOIl SOLDIERS io t- t There Thero Is a message for the tho America merl Legion in Mildred Aldrich's last bo borein boa from Crom rein her liar famous ramous hilltop on 1 tho the Mars nr i entitled When hen Johnn Johnny Comes Mar MarIng lug Ing HO Home tc Small Sinai Maynard Co Coh t th author having ha declared therein that tA lb dou doughboy hbo will carry homo home with Ilk 1 something besides the tho kit he ho and I believe o that tid boys who ho In tho the next decade aro arc rule rulo tho the country will soon bo ho hC hel from and felt hiO fOW 1 IT 1 FEELS David Anderson author of ot The 3 Moon foon Bobbs Coo Co 0 Im ImUs Indiana t ta taa W. W r ra Us writing on How It a 11 First Book declares the tho a new author makes Is tim tho great and most to bo be desired t resUlt sult of at a. a t. t book bool |