Springfield Globe Republic

Mistakes

That Young Singers Make.

The chief folly of the young American prima donnas abroad lies in their unwillingness to do what they can do and what is offered to them. One American girl, who had been singing with some degree of success in Italy, came to me one day with her mother and declared to me that she was penniless, and implored the help of the Americans in Paris, which was freely accorded to her. An American gentleman in this city offered to ensure her a good engagement at the Casino in New York if she would return to the United States. The mother refused the offer with fine scorn. "My daughter is an artiste," she declared, "and can not sing in operetta."

These people were not ashamed to beg, yet the girl was ashamed to sing in "Nanon" or "Amorita."

In another instance a young vocalist was offered the part of a princess in a fairy spectacle to be brought out in London, a role wherein there was a good deal of scope for vocal display, and in which nothing indecorous was exacted either in the acting or the costume.

The offer was refused, and the young singer afterwards made her debut in grand opera in Italy and was a failure.

Why could not these young girls take pattern by Marguerite Ugalda, who, being a failure at the Opera Comique of Paris, straightway betook herself to the stage of operettas, and has queened it in that line ever since?—Paris Cor. Philadelphia Telegraph