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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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An Echo' Front the Chicago Opera

BY HERMANN HOEXTER.

Young Judea Literary Club the mem-
--
Sadie Goldstein, Heading Committee, hers were agreeably entertained by
several musical numbers rendered by
IL loan chief of police in the year
Promises Musical Features
a quartet consisting of Miss Esther
1800. Johnson sang well the mag-
for Occasion.
Weisberg, pianist, bliss Pauline Fine.
nificent music allotted to him as
Arrangements have been completed berg, Mr. Fred llarhas and Mr. Sid-
Mario; his voting, fresh, vibrant voice
rose to the occasion in the "Vittoria" for the grand ball to be given by sty Berstowit 7, vocal.
The program for the next regular
of the second act. But his first aria, members of Purity Chapter, No. 359,
"Recondita arintinia," was too color- Order of the Eastern Star, Wednes- meeting, which will be held at the
less • while the glorious "E lucevan day evening, March 31, at the Eastern Shaarey Zedek Synagogue 2:30 p. in.
Sunday, blanch 211, is a special Pass-
le sidle" lacked the emotional warmth Star Temple.
which hisItalian c on freres, Finzel's orchestra, assisted by 15 over one in honor of the festival.
with
Caruso and Nlartinelle, flood the ro- year old Bud Fisher, the sensational It will be opened by all the members
mantic text and music. Perhaps a bit boy &winner, promises to cooperate singing Hatikvoh, led by Miss Esther
of this was due to the Lenten tempi fully with the committee in making Weisberg at the piano. The num-
of the conductor. Gino Marinuzzi the event memorial,sirnd to be un- hers on the program, wIlich promises
new to Detroit. Ills fame had Pre - stinting in the number of encores to he most entertaininit and instruc-,
ceded him, via Chicago. Ile did not given. A large attendance is expected. five, are as follows: "The Significance ,
disturb the cherished and powerful bliss Sadie Goldstein has acted as of Passover," Sam \Veisberg. "The
impressions we still r e tai l , o f inspired chairman of the arrangements com- Nf caning and Importance of the
readings of the same score by Tos- mittee, assisted by bliss Rose Fisher, Seder," Mr. J. Morley Horwitz. a
cannon. NIr. Nlarinuzzi labored hard Rae Ginsburg, Dr. Philip Broods, recitation on the "Oliestions" by Mr.
to bring forth the overwhelming ef- Mrs. J. Ilerstein, Harry Schiller, Mrs. Joseph Steffan and "The Preparation
fects which Puccini wrote for a large Jule Kaplowitz, Abram Stralser, Dr. for Passover," :Hiss Anna Max:nail.
Because of the fact that the Sun-
orchestra from a handful of men; .\. Fellman and Mrs. M. Bloomberg.
days following the above nientioned
musicians who responded eagerly to
meeting are the second and eighth
his lead, but for some unaccountable
days of Passover this will be the last
reason failed to put the necessary
meeting for three weeks. It is of
verve into tilt• 11111SIC, it is however,
extreme importance that all members
gratifying to note that this small or-
be present.
chestra seated in the pit of the house,
proved quite sufficient to flood the
house with a goodly volume of tone
Warsaw-The Polish Parliament RUDOLPH SCHIELDKRAUT,
when the occasion demanded. Nit- . made the following serious charge to
FAMOUS JEWISH ACTOR,
Nlarinuzzi is still a young man; he the head of the French Military is•
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has temperament, he wields his sion against outrages by French offi-
baton with authority, he conducts cers: On Leszna street Mr. Aaron
New York-Louis Schnitzer, the
without the aid of a soot•. Judged Shapiro observed French officers
by the favorable pre.: notices he has beating Jews. A Jewish woman re- director of the Jewish Art Theater,
returned
this week from Europe after
received elsewhere, he is said to he proached the officers in French for
one of the most promising of Italy's their ungentlemanly behavior. For making a contract with the famous
many talented conductors. Perhaps this one of the officers brutally at- Jewish actor, Rudolph Schieldkraut,
under wore faVOrabil. C011(1111011S, fu- tacked her. Mr. Shapiro called the and his son, Joseph. Both artists
ture performances stay confirm this police to stop these outrages, but be- will arrive here the first of August
foreign verdict.
fore the latter could interfere he him- to play the coming season at the Jew-
self was attacked by the men in ish Art Theater.
Minor roles were in good hands,
Mr. Schnitzer visited Vienna and
French uniform and so severely
and the chorus acquitted itself credit-
wounded that he had to be taken to a Paris, and tells many great tales of
ably in the first and second acts. The
the
existing conditions in Vienna. A
settings lacked the grandeur we usual- hospital.
The head of the French Militar• room in a hotel is very difficult to
ly associate with Nletropolitan pro-
Nlission at once replied to this charge get because all the hotels are occu-
ductions of this same opera. The
and expressed his deep regret for the pied by visitors. In the restaurants
scene in Scarpia's apartment was too
occurrence. Ile asked for more de- meat, wine and vegetables are to be
garish; and in the last act the bastion
tails in order that the guilty may be found, but not an ounce of bread.
of the San Angelo fortress had been
found. The French General ex-
pushed so far forward that the firing
pressed doubts whether the offenders
Mr. and Mrs. J. Rude, of Denver,
squad was completely hidden front
were really French officers, and be- will build and establish a dairy for
sight at the crucial moonlit, with the
lieved that they might have been the Denver Sheltering Home for
inevitable result that the final tragedy
hoodlums disguised in French uni- Jewish Children, to he known as the
lost not a little of its illusion and
form. Nevertheless, the General Jesse Rude Dairy. The building w ill
much of its power.
promised to do his utmost that such be large enough to accommodate
lint we heard and saw "Tosca," and
excesses may not occur in the future. several cows, have quarters for a
for this we must thank the manage-
The guilty if discovered will be se- keeper, also a milk house and other
ment and the guarantors who brought
verely punished.
necessary adjuncts, With complete
the Chicago Opera Company back to
But who are the culprits in these equipment.
the city. Detroit is ripe for a musical barbarous attacks upon Jews? There
treat of this caliber, and it is the hope
is a grave suspicion in many minds
A Young Women's Hebrew Asso-
of a great number of the musical
that they are the editors of the "Jour- ciation is being organized at the Ohio
cognoscenti that the time will come nal de Pologne," a daily newspaper
State University.
when this city can proudly point to appearing in Warsaw in the French
an operatic organization of its own.
language, which holds its ground
with the most filthy and most yellow
Dr. Chajes, the Chief Rabbi of Vi- of the Polish anti-Semitic publica-
enna has just written: "I should be lions.
This paper is said to be published
indeed happy to receive fats and
meats for Passover, as we have none with the financial aid of the [lobs!'
government.
at all."

Written for the Jewish Chronicle.

"TOSCA"

Criticism, wrote the famous Saint-
Bettye, should be the art of praise:
and following this dictum of the
dean of French critics, we may truth-
fully write that the four performances
which the Chicago Opera Associa-
tion gave at Orchestra Hall this past
week were the cause of much re-
joicing. and many happy memories
must always he associated with the
varying degrees of success with
which the productions were carried
out. It is gratifying to he able to
report that Orchestra IlaII proved to
be quite an ideal place in which to
house grand opera; no posts inter-
(ere with the spectators' view Of the
Jrage; the acoustics are unusually
tine; the stage, in size and technical
equipment, proved mist adequate.
Had the auditorium been larger, every
This
slat would have I ATLI sold,
surely for the three evening per-
formances, such was the public in-
terest in "Tosca," in "Lucia," and in
"Rigoletto." And had popular prices
prevailed at the Wednesday matinee,
When Verdi's "Masked Ball" gave
Rosa Raisa her great opportunity to
reveal to the fullest her wonderful
voice and art, that performance would
also have been sold out.

Of the four operas brought to the
city, first honors went easily to the
opening performance, Puccini's
"Tosca." Great things had been prom-
ised in the pictures of Floria, Mario,
and Scarpia, provided respectively by
Miss Vary Garden, Edward Johnson,
and Georges Baklanotf. Were our
courage fails Us, and we must leave
the good company and advice of
Saint-Benve). The Tosca mirrored
by Miss Garden was not the "Tosca
divina" created by Sardou and Puc-
cini; much rather a new "Tosca
Agitata," who used the hands en-
deared to us as NIelisande's much too
wildly; a Tosca without the elusive
charm that Emma Eames brought to
the part, without the dramatic inten-
sity that made Milka Teroina's pic-
ture so compelling; not the seductive
Tosca of Farrar, nor the vocal equal
of Claudia Muzzio. Miss Garden's
conception of the part is very original,
but it fails to convince because it
seems put together piece by piece,
and not developed logically from the
first suggestion of conflict-love and
jealousy-to the highest dramatic de-
nouement. But it was an interesting
performance, and it pleased. As much
can be said of the Mario of Johnson,
and the Scarpia of Baklanoff. The
Russian is vocally superb; but there
was no hint in his acting of the
Scarpia "Lascivious, imperious, cruel"
which has placed the name of Scotti
with the immortals. Much too certain
was this hyocrite of his prey, and al-
together too polite in the role of the

PURITY CHAPTER PLANS' YOUNG JUDEA LITERARY
CLUB.
GRAND BALL,
311
MARCH
At last Sunday's meeting of the

Parliament Charges
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Beating Polish Jews

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