“THE LILY OF LIFE.”

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3568, 2 September 1920, Page 3

“THE LILY OF LIFE.”

ROYAL FAIRY TALE CAPTIVATES PARIS. Thursday evening Queen Marie of Rumania sa w at the opera a fairy tale she had writ ten to amuse her youngest daughter, Princess Liana, when site was ill, turned into magic reality by the art of Madame Loie Ful'ler and her pupils. Ir was the most brilliant night there has boon at the opera since before the war. AH social Paris, with large delegations from the American and English colonies wore here, and for once be it said that the ar of an amateur did not disappoint the audience. “The Lily of Life” is the tit'lo of the Queen 's Fairy al \ which tells of a young princess who loved the lover of her elder sister, and to sav; his life went, searching the whole world of fav'ydoni, above and below the earth, for the flower that would give him hack Ids health. Of course, she finds i after "adventures with all the elves, trolls, djinns and fairy queens of tliose wpnde fnl lands beyond the rainbow. In exquisitely staged tab--Imx and 'dances of children as she can evc-v-o.' Madame Fuller displayed the story to the music of Debussy, Mendelssohn and Grieg. >:y v . hrth tTi° artis s and the author ’■ ‘ '••m.s a wonderful success and for th.e war orphans of Rn-.p.d- u- w‘n •"rpn next winter warm clothes and food f’o.m the Queen, their fairy godmother.