| Show Well Known Grand Opera Singer T Talks alls of Music in Austral a i Somebody In the Orpheum audience last an Englishman ered that Mine IlIne billed as thu Russian soprano Is none nono other Frances who ho for nIne years in inthe the tho early Sis was featured with the lie Carl Rosa nasa Gran Graid Opera company In III London Lendon and tor fort the subsequent three was a star of oC Musgrove III Aus after her marriage to D a Russian n orchestra director That Tha t a pupil of the eminent Senor Garcia the mall who taught Melba Patti und and Jenny JennyLind JennyLind Lind should now be taking II a flyer In modern vaudeville is 18 another instance of the changes the twentieth century has wrought on the stage as well as 1111 elsewhere The lady with the Slavonic name that lint has hils been such 1 a source of unrestrained joy to flippant American critics when approached did not den deny hot her identity On the tho other othel hand she pro II a pre precious precious cious scrap hook wherein are pasted his galore In which her hel appears liar lieI explanation was Val simple She Is now on her wa way homo from a visit to the old country countr and sails for tor Australia on Jun Jamm 17 front San SUII FrancIsco In III order to take lake back to the tho AntIpodes with her sonic somo soil ot of America In the form torm of gold und anti has hall appeared across the lie continent on the Keith and circuits prior to returning to the tho Uni of Melbourne wh where re she Is a vo vocal e cal cuI Instructor or as ahe hie puts puta it II chief studs stud In grand operatic People In America know vor very little about said Mme last when asked for tor nn an Inter Interview interview view Australians in their minds seem to be associated with the and the rough I want to sa say however that I know knol ot of lie people on the earth hint ate nrc so HO devoted to music as are aro the Aus us in III Germany where here music Is Isn isit n it religion ISO so to speak there are no more enthusiastic musicians und anti vocal ocal lets The first thing parents apparent I seek for tor their chIldren Is a course coure amid the tilo result Is that there are some great local choral thoral societies In Aus Australia In our choir at the Melbourne university for tor instance we have havo fifty sopranos one and anI all or of whom can hold high C anti and can do solo work worl when whAn called upon While hUe C hn have e good so sopranos pranos on the other hand contraltos are more In evidence In Australia and mark me mc Australia will pr produce some ome great frent singers ers I will sa say that It Is no Use to take allY thIng to Australia that thatIs thatis Is not good The Tho people are ure vcr very eel cuI but nl also very lvery generous generou In their sup support support port ot of good things R And If they like you o they cant do enough for tor yoU The deluge you ou with flowers Mine lIne expressed herself a os var much taken with American women whom she said she sho thought were the tho finest Onest In the world as they seemed to be so good to one an another another other Jt If y you u have anything on proto pret pretty ty she said thin the choose that to talk tull about If you have havo done well rell the they tell you so 80 Tn In to a 11 question ho laughed laush ll and said I do not wish to run down m my own country countrywomen countrywomen women English hut but they are com cam jealous ungenerous In this profession In which seal jeal jealous ous flourishes b by the lie way a Do the thesa they sa say you ou look nice If you OU do Nay Xay tho they look you ou over thIs wn icay In n a her little linger null nail was Jealously bit bitten ten thin hips and a hard lIard cold cohil mit crit critIcal Ical eye ee turned upon the intervIewer You feel better have put else olBo on an bou bought ht anything else been anythIng else Her tone tOile was not hitter but It certaIn certaInly was keenly edged |
