MISSING MUSIC-AND NO GENEE

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1840, 28 August 1913, Page 2

MISSING MUSIC-AND NO GENEE

Rather a curious and .decidedly awkward incident occurred during tho departure. of Gcneo and the Russian troupe of dancers from. Melbourne' to Adelaide. "Australia is a Land of Strange Adventure," she told a representative of a Sydney paper, "and, for the iirst time in my career I saw the artists ready, the band ready, the stage ready, the theatre raadv, crowds of people waiting, the whole house sold out to the tune of ninny hundred pounds and—no performance. Yes) it was discovered during tho afternoon that all the orchestral scores had been left behind in Melbourne, and, although we ransackcd the music warehouses, and even applied to the University Conservatorium, there was nothing for it but to close the theatre. The nearest approach to a similar catastrophe that f ever heard of was fold me by my friend Geraldine larrar whilst we \vero" travelling to Xew York last year. Some of the artists, and some of the music and effects, were missing owing to a. block on 'tile line, and an important production of Verdi's 'Othello' in Chicago, was delayed until 9.3 ft, at which hour the curtain went iip, and tho wholo work was given before a. crowded house. The Othello of the cast was a Bohemian, Leo Slezak, generally known as 'tlio ginnt tenor," owing to Ids imposing aUturo, Ho was so worried and ucsct

bv tlio excitement of tho day and tho fatigues of his part, that, 'when ho reached the scene in- which lie should hnvo lifted Dcsdomonn, ho .said to her politely, but tinnly: 'I cannot, madanio; you will please walk to your bed.' This contretemps has become one of tho historical jokes of the modern lyric slago.'

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