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...Harrison Forman's companions were killed by Chinese bandits. MARCH HARE-Elsa Smithers-Oxford ($3). Quiet autobiography of a native of the South African Republic who lived through the Boer War, several gold rushes, knew many of the South African notables of her day. THROUGH MY OPEN DOOR - Lucia Whitney-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Story of the ten-year illness of a well-known U. S. novelist who writes under a pseudonym, gives her impressions of the affairs of her friends as they appeared to an emotional, poetic, bedridden observer...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company. It was not the occasion she had hoped for. In February she was to have been the heroine of Verdi's Rigoletto. But laryngitis interfered. Her debut, instead, was at a Sunday night concert. Her biggest test: the Mad Scene from Lucia in which an exacting flute kept tabs on her trills and cadenzas...
...respectively, with Lotte Lehmann singing the part of Elsa in the former. It is interesting to note that this is the same role in which she made her debut before Boston audiences during the last season of the ill-fated Chicago Opera Company. "La Traviata," "Lakme," "Faust," "Peterlbbetson," and "Lucia da Lammermoor" are also being given in this week. Thus, a variety of German. French, Italian, and American opera is to be offered to Boston's musical palate in the space of one week, a slight compensation for the customary dearth of this type of higher entertainment and education...
Sembrich did her flawless trills in Lucia di Lammermoor at the second performance given in the Metropolitan Opera House. (Downtown at the old Academy of Music Adelina Patti was singing.) Sembrich sang with Caruso when he made his U. S. debut in 1903. She was with the Metropolitan when it visited San Francisco at the time of the great fire. Caruso, who was shaken out of bed, would never sing in San Francisco again. Sembrich was frightened, too. But she stayed to give a concert, earned over $10,000 which she divided between the choristers and the orchestra players...
...transportation, bringing us the news of all transport developments-in railroad, steamship and bus fields as well as in aeronautics. . . . Therefore, I am doubly pleased to see the new Transport column, and want to congratulate you on adding a feature which I am sure will interest all your readers. LUCIA LEWIS...