Show L BUS FRISCO O TRIUMPH J I Ij j Tho second great t const tour of ot the Metropolitan company of at New NewYork cw York opened In III Sou co lust las I Monday Monda night It almost causes n pang In tho breast of ot the SnIt Hull Lake Iak music lover loer to that all ull this might huc been beon ours hat hall wo rounded r up our shoulders and alen the sort of ot guarantee he last lawt year lar Ax Aa it itIs ItIs Is his great ung birds will make their way Ill hick homi Iv lv ho tho rn route tho same by b which they came west westI I I i 1 liim ii 1 lc le lewall was wall to hac hlo the opening Jill bill but when the distinguished singer lr reached San 1 she found she was wall suffering from a n slight huskiness for tor ono thing and nn for another the Ulti Palate hotel holl to admit n to her hor room her pet lIt collie dog do Thi she fihe lew away In a rage rago and spent tho re IC remainder of the tho day In hunting foi tor a hotel where tho Iho less par particular al It was aCter ICCI al hours cab Ing from frum pu JIJI c I to pinto that she succeeded and b nightfall she found die was In no condition to appear Thereupon Lohengrin was substituted and this Is the tho way n the Chronicle speaks of 01 the event Room for tor an American donna Emma Earnes Eam 8 a great ar with n II plain American Amt nam came fast Int night and captured Ban SOli Francisco to If have and to hold There has hns never nver been PO 10 POmuch much glamour thrown mound her as os there has hus been around the foreign Him Himera ers era and It was all 1111 to her last night nishi for tor It mall made her nil all the more of n a triumph It ill 1 not Mt take her very veo long Ion to win the house and from the she waR wan the heroine of oC the evening Not berate the oth ith others ers welt less or than Ihan before heton but because aha was WIlS now and an American und went wen I oven even beyond the anticipations for we still have a II vague ngul Intension lon that will not down that prima donnas dont Krow In Amor len It Is true that those wo have hao before have hn vt by II comparison with those from but bul Duma names no apology nr or pat At 1 least one anI ran can bo be without reserve There was n a gren difference tence between last nights of oC the new s opera season and the parallel occasion of ot last Insl year ar Last season the first per Iler performance left leCt rather a chill chili hut but tl performance of or left lell only the most enthusiastic Impression and andIn In tact fact the tho spell was on tho packed audience from the first It teemed n question how add anything tn to the Ihl reduction of which could mak It Letter or more mon enjoyable than It was lIas when shen season lenson hut he did 1111 It Wagner Is so that hi his hew and heroines like are an of wonderful rul changes In Interest from personality ami treat treatment ment Tho new nolo In III Lohengrin last night was Mme Mine Eames who Ilsa It was a I note nolo of purely poetic quality cl or and and altogether charming We h hav hall had hadn n II good many here herl tin Important rank and a II few Cow of at thi th high highest est lit rank hut but nearly nil 1111 of theli h v given us tin 1111 Ulsa EI a rather heavy hell In III tiei tIel son lion und In hi voice mostly of at tho en on lo fo order with the tho modesty and gentle gentleness ness neBS of oC that nice Ince and nil Its deep hut but sluggish 1 Uvon I on was wal heavy helY powerful Du Em Duma ma Kames Is III the reverse To be he begin gin with lIh she Is an nn who might pans linK for tor Queen from Tin Idylls of or the 1 1111 lather than the anti and more robust heroine of ot the Jor Jorman man legend a tall litho lithe with most t poses a o ox she face lac with something of ot the in n It which Is rare In donnas and her costumes charmingly delicately beautiful a fir ure that In III the caught tho eye 0 for Ito as well as ns Its lis charm And like her figure In the picture 1 Kami l voice olee caught Urn tho ear car with Just tho same samo effect A clear not voice ole but sym sm sympathetic pathetic and full Cull of ot hl h poetic mel melody melad ody ad admirably modulated and mag magnetic mn to tu an 1111 unusual degree managed with the simplest ease It was like 1110 a abeam beam of ot UI white light In the tho tone colon of ot so rich In III them the tone colors of ot tho forceful Do and and the rich dramatic contralto Schumann Something very too wa tho Iho sympathetic contrast between the clear penetrating soprano and the warmer tenor of Van Dyck It was nl al the most effective cast of or Lohengrin we have had here It seemed us 1111 If It Kames l gave a keynote that tempered the whole performance brought It It Into poetic line Van Dyck sang unquestionably bet better better ter than he did last year The un that was noticeable then was not night Ills III voice was olca clea and full tull and more fluent he gave gae us a most Impressive Loh n grin 1111 It Is hardly necessary say that the opera could not been a I successful pet formatted If Ie and had hadnot not been ng as In III Ortrud and mund as nf they the before It Is a treat trl t to listen len lo to Mine Schumann H she he gained something In effect last night against tho new nev toll foil of ot a u poetic Ulsa Elen Do and Muhl mann had their share of ot the success and of ot course cours there wore were Damrosch his orchestra which Is 13 once moro more a 0 splendid There wore were a n many recalls at atthe atthe the clofe clope of act A determined at nt attempt tempt to 10 call Mme Kames out by her herself self to 10 receive the Ih ovation due dill an nn dIll did not succeed Hut But Mho Him has ha 1 herself and the df to hear her during the Iho season will practically Insure crowded houses whenever she |