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Show That he ha made rr, ney wPh a number num-ber of ether operas that be ha pre. sentej in Kngll'h there Ik no doubt. That Ju:-t a soon an the jm-oj,,. ,,( the Inlte.j Slatei .Umand. :u t'.i.. I npe , f C.crruany do. that th.- oj r , a ruu-t b- Min in a language that t.Vv can understand, Ju-t so ;,,.on w,j (.-rand opera he a ?ncfi-s. In e,-rj tl-; city In this country. Why thoubj ji; the American people InulM tht the--f t things he way they want tbtm. Why should they eater to ,om ar-list, ar-list, singer, or actor lust Neraue they are labeled Tr. ni Europe? M,,rr. hlph class acts, timre sltit'ers go fr m the I'nlti-d States every year make a hit In Europe than Is mal; by any of them from any single country lu Europe. The trouble wP!i the arcrape American U that he doc.i ' not give j-ufficlent ericouragem'.at to hi- own aetloii. ' GRAND OPERA -SHOULD I BE IN PLAIN ENGLISH. Why should grand opera lovers of the I'nited States pay to listen lo grand opera when a majority of them do n..t understand a word the language lan-guage In which It la sung? This Is a question that ha been asked thousand of tlmei In thU and other citlc of the I'nited States. That the people ,f the I'nited Slates are foolish In pa) lng to liste n to grand opera In a language that they do net understand is tbe opinion of Carl Harder of lierlln, Germany, who probably ImxiV.s mere opera start than any other man In Europe or America, harder books a nmjorlty e,f the artists lor the Imperial opera, l'.erlln; the Prince Regent opera houses at Carlsbad, Dresden and the other leading opera houses of Germany, Ger-many, as wcl aa the Grand opera house ai Vienna. Austria, and ha.-, furnished a majority of the Euros pean stars that have nppe-ared In the lest few years in the Henry W. Savage Sav-age and the Oscar Haruniorstein English Eng-lish grand pera companies in tho United States. In a statement made last summer In Fritz N. HuUsman. tenor of the Le I'-run grand opera trio, who have been appearing at the Mission recently, re-cently, Ilerr Harder said: "The pen-r pen-r lo of the I'nited State are the easiest people In the world to work; all one has to do Is to advertise mi artist it an actor as .being lroni Europe and they will flock to see him, or her, or the art. They will pay two, prices to hear a grand opera In a langauge that they cannot understand, under-stand, probably because they cunnot understand. In Germany we do not I atrunle grand opera, no ma.tter ho-.v fine It may he, unless we an understand under-stand the works as well us the mrb-. We present the works of the greatc.-t masters, but it must be in a language that the people can understaud Ah. your Americans are one great let (if fools. You should insist on having the grand opera sung In your own language. lu my buig experience I have learned that the American sli-ger sli-ger Is the most thorough and uultk- est of perception of any singers in the world w irk. work, and they know no end to the thorough mm .f their work. Why. In Europe tolay many of the highest praised slngeis are Americans. Yon do not approl-ate approl-ate them over there. f they come back to vinj as artists from Europe they receive a warm weleepmc- if they sing In seine oth r language than their native toncue. I cannot understand under-stand you Ameilcans hut It Is go.rl money lor the Europeans." Mr Huttinan speaks and slugs in Crimen as fluently as he doe a in English. Madam Ix- P.run. I ho soprano so-prano of (he company, which cIosea a week's engagement at the Ml-irlon to-n.ght. to-n.ght. fpe.iks and rings Italian .k fluently flu-ently as she does English. Mr Ha't-rn.i.n Ha't-rn.i.n has suni In grand opera t.i Germany. Madam a Hrua has sung hi grand opera In Italy. Their opinion opin-ion on this subject should be worth something. "Ii Is easjer to bin? the words cf an Italian grand .pera lu that language than If ic 10 sing It in English," said Madam Le P.ruu. ' They l ave more voweU and few consonant In their language. a;, relocated for grand opera in Italy. Mv first f'gagr men on my return to mv native na-tive country was in Italian grind opera. When Mr. S.n.,K.. f,fi..re 1 a phice In his Encloh gram-l e,p. ra company I rladlv acccpti-d li b. cau-e I felt that I could slnK Jut' a, weil In English a.; I could in Italian, an 1 that my eoiintrym-n would understand under-stand wh.,t was singing In addition to tbe mu.-lc. I have never r.gnt'el the change. I am convinced that what 1 he lover , f fra , Tils country should In.l-l e,n is grand opera In English, when it !- prew-nie-l In such a ttay that the AmerKan people- ,.m understand the words a, well as the piu,,j,. th,.rc r ii)ort pcple attending errand opci than there Is DOW." Mr. HuUman said rh- pw.pi,. f tht. r . w I never appreclve Kr-n., of.,rd JL 1 tanV .h S ''I U'-:l lh- c" '"" tand the word. be , as the rn . "' ,h" Mor" "H as the mu.,,c. Too much rall. it """-"Miin pjr ci-rlng trv Th.,- 1 of tbls conn- |