MADAME CLARA BUTT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1873, 6 October 1913, Page 9

MADAME CLARA BUTT.

Referring to the hold which Madamo Clara Butt and ■ Mr. Koimerley Rumford have upon tho public, an Australian journal' says:—''The artist 3 who can command crowded audiences over tad over again in tho same city as often as thoy like to visit it cam bo counted on tho fingers. Perhaps, uideed, tho fingers of one hand alono would servo. Madame Clara Butt and Mr. Kennorlcy Runiford are two of that fortuuato category. They attract not merely with their art, splendid though it is. but with their personality. And that personality has proved boyond tho manetic stago to something mow enduring. In Australia, ccrtainly, they are regarded with affection —why, you cannot say exactly, beoauso they belong no moro to lioro than elsewhere. But thoy scom to bo artists with whom it i 3 not necessary to have intimato acquaintanceship, in tho ordinary senso of 1 tho word, to bo fond of. Betwoon them and their audiences, wherever they go, a bond of friendship seems to bo established across the flowers and ferns that tako the place of footlights on the concert platform." Now that tho famous singers are on their way to Wellington, great interest is being shown in their coding season, which opens at tho Town Hall on Thursday evening. Tho plans for the concerts will bo oponed for tho scries this morning, and scats may bo reserved at half a guinea and 7s. Cel. Tho os. unreserved tickets for tho opening concert on!? will bs available from UwnwiroY*-