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...first meeting of the year of the Theatre Goers Club, held yesterday in Emerson Hall, E. E. Clive, director of the Copley Theatre, and De Wolf Hopper took turns at entertaining and amusing a large gathering of students interested in the theatre...
When Mr. Clive had finished, Mr. De Wolf Hopper, veteran of light opera fame, took the platform and with booming voice that filled every corner of the room, spent an hour recounting amusing incidents of his long and varied career...
Asked by his interviewer to name the composers of comic opera whom he considered to be the most notable, Mr. Hopper protested that such a request was beyond his power. "Gilbert and Sullivan, I think, will never die. They are to the English musical stage what Shakespeare is to the drama. But there are many other composers of considerable skill. The think that distinguishes a mediocre man from the skillful composer is that the latter fits the music to the scene, while the former merely writes notes that have no particular continuity, though they may be very tuneful...
That light opear is returning to vogue was the opinion ventured by Mr. Hopper. "We haven't," he said, "as much of it now as we once had, but we certainly are beginning to see more light operas than we have for many years. I doubt that the Shuberts ever have made as much money in their history as they recently did with 'Blossom Time', and operetta built around the life and music of Franz Schuberts. "The Student Prince" is still another case in point. Light opera may or may not be back to stay. It will be the public...
Boston audiences, much maligned by most visiting actors, received a kind word from Mr. Hopper. "Boston audiences," he averred, "are as appreciative as any that you can find. It's true that they do not applaud as pronouncedly as audiences do in some places, for instance, New York. But New York audiences are deceptive in that they do not represent the citizens of that city. The people you play to in New York are excursionists from all over the country, and they have the excursionist spirit. But the real New York audience, the one you get on Saturday night...