Show NEGRO TROUPE TO SING OPERA Colored Group Will Appear ini in i Standard Works in New York NEw YORK April 13 Opra A-Opra Op JP-Op ra raIn In English sung by b ne negroes roes is planned for next season by Harry Moses New York impresario Mr Moses plans to retain as-a as unit the cast now singing the Gertrude Stein Virgil Thomson Four Saints in Three Acts and to US use it in per of the st standard operas at af ter the road tour of that work is done It is the fifth step in the operatic revival which has seized New York In recent months First was the resuscitation of oC the Metropolitan Second was the success of oC the first popular opera venture Cat at the Hippo drome that company now is playing in another New York theater Third was Pasquale Amatos Amato's en trance into production a also o at th the Hippodrome which apparently is becoming be be- coming the traditional birthplace of popular opera in New York The fourth step was the announce announcement ment a week ago that the Stadium Concerts which in eight weeks each summer draw raw audiences totaling COO persons to Stadium up uptown uptown town will this season give two operatic oper weekly The nucleus of the proposed negro opera company compan will be Beatrice Rob Inson Wayne Wayne Edward Matthews and the others of the Four Saints cast casl Even the tiny ballet which consists of six dancers three boys bo s 's and three girls will be used Operas so o far suggested for their USe are Carmen arid and But But- Each would run for a week instead of oC changing nightly |