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Gioconda for Rose Raisa, Le Prophête for Charles Marshall, Werther for Mary Garden, will probably be added to Chicago operatic repertory next season. Also it is likely that Don Carlos will be mounted for Chaliapin, Gianni Schicchi for Galeffii; Pearl Fishers for Schipa, Lucrezia Borgia for Raisa, and Pilléas and Mélisande for Garden and Baklanoff...
...William Martin '2, who two years ago accompanied the University Glee Club on its European tour, has succeeded brilliantly in the Opera Comique in the roll of Werther, judging from some recent Parisian newspaper comment...
...youth and slender grace are exactly what one imagines in the young Werther" is the remark of one news critic, while the same speaks a few lines later of the American's "warm, supple, and vibrant voice...
...bewildered and befogged "the younger generation", Mr. Fitzgerald has a profound understanding of this phase of our day and is well qualified to write about it but after a time his refinements become almost identical with a rather morbid sort of introspection and the character he is drawing, like Werther or William Lovell, loses the right to be considered as a creation of literature and becomes merely an instrument by which he can elaborate subjectively on his emotional and intellectual experiences...
Tonight's program at the Pop Concert in Symphony Hall is as follows: 1. March, "Boccaccio," Von Suppe 2. Overture, "Martha," Flotow 3. Waltz, "Die Fledermaus," Strauss 4. Selection, "La Belle Helene," Offenbach 5. Ballet Music, "La Gioconda," Ponchielli 6. Entr'acte, "Werther," Massenet 7. Selection, "Aida," Verdi 8. Cortege from "The Queen of Sheba," Gounod 9. Bacchanale, "Samson and Delilah," Saint-Saens 10. Entr'acte, "Lakme," Delibes 11. Waltz, "The Merry Widow," Lehar 12. March, "Star of the North," Meyerbeer