Show THE MUSICAL COMPOSER htow little those ft ho go to a suc opera and see the smiling com gosei think of the mea ital it not chya leal suffering through which he lias dpn likely gone beffie arriving at fame api instance leoncavallo and ilie are taken as a matter of course but the of ilic apera wa obtained when despair was knocking at the door of the composer several years ago signora lioi brandin had just made her firby success as a singer chea one day i arlend camo to beg ier good offices wit li the who is such i power in the musical world for an akon genius whose opera the was driving him mad because he noi get it accepted the rland diew a touching picture of the man alio had his opera to Hl cordi gnos great cival who aad pigeonholed pigeon holed it and forgotten li the boung composer va seating kuhis heart franden a great deal of persuasion as was difficult and had just do claird that ho would not even hear any wore new operas however she in thi th i end gave way herself won over on hearing anil spent a comply pt fatiguing horns in arguing with to get lid of her lie consented to hear the score the young composer came with a timid almost supplicating air before the and taciturn one and was received with a coldness almost glacial leoncavallo at once seated himself at the piano while walked the floor and those present waited anxiously for a sign of which they knew would be a pause in the dreadful pro the ehst act was passed and still the tramp tramp went on be composer scarcely being able to the notes in the second act ne longed for pause came abo promenade was over never to be resumed where leoncavallo Is concerned thus he was born and the composer took his first step toward bloland Jl oland and berlin girat MISSED in some arc raced 5 a month said miss cooil ved pointedly t well its worth the money harold LUe watt looking her over with oi admiration |