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Show JpAKSIFAL" LACKS SOMETHING. Say ThoBe Who Have Seen It at "If Baireuth. irSSBelfal" was produced In a blaze iMnaHBT and a blare oC trumpets at the ' f 4TjBi-opolltan Opera-house In New I .. .LtjJm;i before an audience to which all (Ail V'jV I sfiprinclpal cities east of Chicago and eluding the Windy City had sent j i Prat? wiles. The dress question has not :i een solved, for all motley crowds that frTai 5cr gathered this was the biggest In t., iclety. There were two extremes of res3 clothes and tweeds, the low-SJrtjJ low-SJrtjJ fccked evening gowns contracted with . v lirt waist and short skirts. The slng- r were very good with one or two i I'wfi weptlons. but to Mllka Tornlna, the tindry, goes the palm without opposl- I Ul DM i tlon But with all Its glory and light and sweet and grand mulslc, and with m the finest scenery that modern lngcnu- U ity can produce, the play, as seen by M those who have witnessed the Bayreuth H production, lacks the reverence and sol- H emnlty only to be had In Its home. New H York audiences are notably lacking In reverence for anything on or off the H stage, and even the elaborate and per- H feet production of thlB almost sacred Ml drama cannot break through the Gotham sangfroid. In every other H sense It was a great success. HE |