Show SINGER 1 EARlY TRIUMPHS Mme Schumann Heink Sways Wagnerian Audience Audience Audience Au Au- as in Days of Old NEW EW YORK TORK Feb 26 20 AP AP- AP Madam Madl Schumann Schumann- Schumann year 66 old prima donna has come back t to a the scenes o of her early arly triumphs triumph and there Is a stirring of memories memorie s In the dimmest corners of the of old sd d Metropolitan Opera house Out of the blue shadows of th the thelast thelast e last scene of ot Wagner's Wagners V gner's Dos Dae gold her rich contralto flowed in inthe Inthe n the warning song of at the earth eart nt t mother for ten brief minutes yea ea- ea and things were as rs they use used d to be nine years ago In front there was a no clapping an and d pushing for the orchestra stra pit such a aa as asa s a Wagnerian audience has no not t shown in many days There were e eleven cleven curtain calls Madam a at t first appeared leading the rest o of f the cast after her Then there were o three she took alone Though mother of eight children childre n and a grandmother to boot she wa was wasa a a prima donna all over o again Backstage Back Back- stage ate Scotti was waa plucking a t to pieces saying we started al almost almost al- al most together tiet fifty years jears ago nex next year Other opera favorites were were e Just as excited with pleasure When hen she Joined them It wa was s Ernestine Sweetheart and Scotti Scot tl ti ti Dear and she gathered the them into her arms aid ad kissed them on one e by one Bohnen who had bee been n Wotan to her Erda in the performance perform once ance lifted her high so 80 sho she might t kick h her r he heels ls together And Marlon Marion Ma Ma- rion Talley who nho Is Just beginning s was timid until Madam swept he her r Into her arms |