Show PLUCKY GIRL SINGER CONQUER CONQUERS GRAND OPERA J Miss Alco AlIce Nielson Ielson hI has just lef left London for a visit to ro Paris and the he I continent boore before returning to America I when ihen she wi wIll make lion hor first appear apper anco In gand granil oper In New ow York and Boston next season I While In London during the last few months she has been giving sonic some drawing room recitals at rest res End houses and country scat seats that have been highly successful Also they have been remunerative to Miss Is k Neison but her Ifo lIfe has haa not been a golden since she abandoned ono one cm corn cornIc ic oper opera a few years ears ago at the ho height j j of her success to study for tor the tho grand oper opera stage 10 To be blunt she has been pret hard up UI and I it has been one continuous struggle to keep t to I hel resolutIon I go back to I it though T she sall said to me the he da day before she sho left left I made up mv my mind to go Into vaudeville rather than than take tako any d df Ito tho comIc oper opera offers made to n ni There seemed no chance of my getting a grand oper opera engagement engagement anti and I was thoroughly disheartened whoa al all un unexpectedly expectedly canto came right Now r I as a as happy as can be and 1 ho have splendid opportunities Opened to me Why was It you 01 did not study for Cor grand opera before I asked You see I began singing at the Tivoli In Sac Sac Francisco At that timo there was no opportunity In Ant Am for or a poor girl to stud for grand oper opera Hence I was forced Into the comic opera fIeld Things wi will he be quite different over home now that Mr Ir Eben D Jordan or of Boston has the tho most wonderful schol school In time tho world for training young singers for COl S opera 11 Mr Gru Grau of offered me an engage o omont mont at tIme the Metropolitan opera hOlso Itemise l In IDOl 1001 hilt but at that time I knew no tt roles and SO WIS was barred f Mr also me a Met f engagement but I had al aI road signed for the San Carlo at Naples I had hai words wIth him because I refused to break m my contract j jA te teA A year ago aso I had a slight misun misunderstanding wih with Mr fr Henl Henry Russel Russell i and It looked as If I would not get the Boston Doston opera hOlso homis engagement either Pure Pur chance changed I 1 sang at I it concert at Palm Beach FIn Fla last winter and Mr Jordan hearth heard mo me and amid was delighted with my voice Ho r j asked rae me whether I 1 was engaged for forlie lie tho or Boston opera houses and I replied Neither 5 I Mr Jordan got bus on the lie wires auml cables Mr Ir Russell In Europe to engage mend wired Mr 11 l Otto Kahn In Ia Now York asking him M to speak to Mr fr Mr Ir s Kahn very crr kindly did so and the he ra re suit was the MetropolItan and Doston Boston J al all clO to 11 Mr Jordan n lie tho friend of the AmerIcan singer I 1 I It was elS easy to see that lint Miss Neison Neilson ha a grateful disposition For the benefit of those who were wont to enthuse e over her voice beauty and graco in the Singing Girl and oth other r light operas let 00 me say that lint Iss hiss Nell el sons olce has naturally very err mich much It Improved and that hat she Is prettier than corNew York Herld Herald t tt t |