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Show t BEAUTIES OF "MADAM (BUTTERFLY." Society in this city and the sur-rounding sur-rounding country is loon to taste the long deferred vocal melodic and passionate pas-sionate orchestral sweets of Giaconio J Puccini's fascinating Japanese grand opera, "Madam lUittetlly." The woik I is in three acts and has proven a sen sational success in Em ope and Aiuer- !ca- Y It is the newest contrihution bj the com osir, who represents all that is modern and progicsshe in the Italian school of grand opera, to the ')! art-activity of the musical world, The J delight this David among the com- , posers of Italy gave this country in " the hohemianly frolicsome, yet tender melodies of "La lioheme," and tin. i passion-swept music of "Tosca" ' bqth first introduced by Mr, Savage is not forgotten. ).' Mr. Savage in his beautiful produc- i tion of fascinating ' Madam Hutter- il fly," has 'sought to make it a final 1 and convincing argument in favor of . grand opera in English. With this i object in view he has gathered a corps of prima donnas possessing the combined gifts of youth beauty and voice. Without these charms Madam lluttcrfiy would be i.o butterfly. In John Luther Long's novel the dainty little Japanese wife Cho-Cho-San, around which theme Puccini has woven wov-en his music, is "just fifteen jeais , old." She is described as pretty as a picture on a fan, and she must sing divinely. |