Show i IF f u r I A n SIC p Jor L e t I MODE r GE S ECE S Critic Says Patti Was Poor Actress Sang Flat Modern singers r are Arc not inferior 10 those thoo of ot the past pat according to tot t mt least on one New ew lork ork critic who differs therein from rome romo of ot hi his ol oller confreres This critic Is Leonard of ot th I ew e York American ho w ho rotates relates 8 1 I was dragged to the tIme opera wi wl en enI enI enas enI enI I was as a child but as a I com cOnic coma of ot a I musical and and id md mi 01 m mu- mu musical mu musical eari earl carl I formed det mite Impressions of oC what I hi In those thoDe now remote yeats I UT oi Cr t nitin-t Mr Liebling thus hus continues continue hI hit comparison of oC singers singer past I present tim Ml II it will ill III t tell 11 on 01 that Patti never neter hi hL been The truth Is hi th thit t Patti was OS a poor and ond niro lint limit she he aU mp- mp ted led time the lightest kind of oC roll robs Melba who ernie cime Ion after atter hl 9 tm better trill than Patti more moro vo- vo vo-ical vo volume and a n richt quality of oC tone I She i he too wag ras considered an aD unsatisfactory actress I II I lied hl greatel faculty facility ind nd y tn l n rapid passages than either Pit pt Pit 11 u ti or Melba All MI three ranked ranke 1 Im- Im m- m below la ms a musician I I TIe The Time reproach of ot coldness was as wasI lime Die common criticism hulled l at atI mma J Barnes Eames Calve Cal was as I tor or taking nm unmusical II be tics with I the composers 9 5 Cs She bhe S he I survives In lit memory strictly PS ro n It ilI part One artist that of Carmen Carme was as superficial l i amo ame ame only a as In tn Faust Fat and through his II of oC The The Palms and The The Tn T TI o 0 Grenadiers rs at al time tho he Sunday nIght nish I Metropolitan Opera House conC conceits 1 t Campanini a was the time most mot limited kind ot of o an On opera tenor emen een though he made a try at Lohen Lohen- Lohengrin grin grimm Joan Jean Do De was waa a ban bari baritone tone converted Into a tenor lie IIo was howe however er also a mart of ot intelligence and true truo artistic un- un un understanding kno n chiefly for tor his Otello was as Dos cele celo- cele- cele celebrated celebrated for tor his shouting JIB MANY y In ERR 1111 Of OC the Wagner Vagner ner as Interpreters Lull Lilli Lehman Lebman Cr frequently sang flat tho the recent Melanie l Kurt hurt was an and affecting a Bruen- Bruen Bruen and Isoldo as liS one ono could wish for tor Van 1100 had a w wooden dp- dp de delivery 11 liter livery cry and AI AIa a y s im tenor tones tone ero throaty although he locked loed especially romantic as Siegfried My Inference Is Js that the tho old tons fogus were nere ero more mono impressionable then than they are now and were eN less Joss familiar with the time operas them them- themselves themselves selves valves And dp do not let anyone nYI tell you ou that the tho opera singers Ingers dId not ot sing at the top of oC their In those days das I 1 heard many astar a staT star tar teat feat ot of the loudest kind ot of o I lou lou- mu musical U- U yelling |