MR. ALFRED HILL

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 490, 24 April 1909, Page 5

MR. ALFRED HILL

' THE IJLOT1 J LOT OF A NEW OPERA. ,llr. Alfred' Hill, the talented musician, haa mttdo suoh a remarkable recovery since the Kravo crisis bo passed through on Sunday • iiiglit, that on Thursday he informed his ■ brother, Mr.'Charles Hill, that he had planned the plot of a now and ontirely or- '< iginal opera, in which tho scenes wcro to i tie laid in and about a hospital.. Thcro were' 1 to J 'be ■ bright choruses by ■; prepossossihg ', nurtvs, ■ smart medical students, and patients/ Tho loading tonor was to bo tho .'medical; superintendent, who wae loved madly, but hopelessly, by tho aiatron (contralto).; Of course tho doctor lovos a beauti-; ful young convalescent (satjrano)i whom he hns attended through n tenons illnces. She' has l also aroused a passion in tho broast; of. .tho chief dispenser (baritone), who, foiled ■ in his lovo, attempts to pnisen lier by inserting a dnso- of arsonio in her medicinp, but the doctor discovers the ruso--just in timo.■■"■ Siioh a ■ plot lias hqvolty to commend it;, and; Mr. Hill has had oxperienco enough to giro the siibjeot tl'o nocesshry touch of.'■■ vonlism. His consummate gift of melody' will do tho rest. ■ . . .■ . : Mr. Hill has oxhibitod wonderful courage throughout his illness, end has kept lip his spirits in a manner that haa surprised every-' one--ovon his medioal attendants. It ii ' siiiciirely hoped that ho' is now on tho roao ■ to recovery. : ■'.'' ', : ■'■ •■■