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Show FROWN ON SINGERS' MI&TAKES. j Audiences Are Quick to Resent Any ! Mlspronurciatlon. No Englishman w itli dnughters could do a rasher thing than pennit them lo take lesons fiom eminent professors with a view of going on the stage The opera stage In England scaicel) exists At Cov cut Garden a wo-nan who can speak good English can only ( get lu b) force of social Influence, and ahifiail a foreigner has vcr.v great ilir j Acuity because she cannot speak 01 sing with a perfect accent The foi elgn lad) or gentleman conns bciihk heie and on occasion will ventuie tc sing In English, and their mistake bilng nothing nioie than a smile n the faces of the audience. Hut let an English singer go to Kranee of (ler ' many and something totnlh dlffereir j happens. In 1807 Tamaguo sang at Mom . Carlo before an nmllence which a- j mainly Kiench He mlspionouiiccd .1 j word, and a eal of deilslvc luuslil-'i i coveied even his slenloilau note In I Hiussels I heard an Ametlcan n-nri ' laughed at because some of his voweU weie not quite pure Ilrussels. wheiel theli French Is the most villainous pi , tols I hao over heard. In fininan 1 , have hejid both Kiench and English I aitlsls laughed al becjuse their ip cent was not absolute) conect Sat urda) KoWew. . . |