Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-12-11 | Page 17 | Chicago Audience Lauds Modern Opera Composed by Ex-Office Boy

r Chicago Audience Audien e La Lauds ds Modern Opera Composed by Office Ex Office Ex-Office Boy By EARL J. J JOHNSON JJOHNSON CHICAGO Dec Dee 11 UP UP- UP Chi Chi- Chi ago boasted of ot ota a a. new Jewel In tn Its crown a of culture today after pro pro- during tho first grand opera over ever overwritten written by a a. naUvo son BOn The opus opua was the tho work of at HamIton Hamilton Ham Ham- Iton ilton Forrest who quit his job as office bO boy y for tor Samuel Insull to study music abroad broad and was given for tor th the first time last night by the Civic Opera company with Chicago's s 's own wn Mary Gardenin tho the title rolo role of at Camm Camille Pride was written plainly on the faces of at the Gold Coast Cout audience that attended ed the tho premiere At times their enthusiasm broke through In shouts shouts' of at as th U volatile Mary rushed into the arms of ot Charles Hackett who played cI Armand or drove the tatters latter's father from her salon in tn a tempest t tot of ot high notes Camille is the Dumas fits fils story of ot the French courtesan who leaves her ancient t. t profession n for tor a ar areal areal r real 41 love lovo affair with an att artist but the the- work I Is set to the tempo of at modern cocktail parties and Jazz AH AU of tho the scenery Is modernistic and tho the costumes were so much like those worn by o occupants of tho the dress circle that the cast would not have been out of at place in the audience In one ono scene Miss Garden appeared appeared ap ap appeared in fn loungo pajamas and danced with her guests In another another an an- other a telephone rang and in a third the orchestra broke out in a moaning Jazz tune that threw the twenty or more more- characters on the stage stase into a a. strictly modern dance Capers like that have havo never been seen before in tn the Civic opera house houfe but the audience indorsed the he departure from custom by de demanding demanding demanding de- de manding as many as AS- AS six curtain app appearances arances of at Our Mary tary and called finally for tor Forrest himself After Arter tho second act tho the year 28 old librettist composer was pushed Into the footlights footlights' glare to receive an ovation that surpassed the wildest dreams of at his office boy days 1 Arias common to grand opera ha have havo no no part parl In this home homo grown product Its only solo is a a. lively Parisian ballad sung by Miss Garden Garden Garden Gar Gar- den from a table top in her salon and Its only chorus chorus' a few tew say gay lines by a roomful of at guests in in- in evening clothes clothes' who havo kayo drunk enough champagne to release to-release release their Ini Instances Instance tho the S Save ve for tor those two singing Is 15 confined to lyrical con con- conversation between courtesans en- en and noblemen who fill tl the e gambling house and cafe scones scene