MISS ALICE MAY.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2559, 20 March 1877, Page 2

MISS ALICE MAY.

(BTTHEDIN BATUBDAT ADVEBTIMB.) The numerous, friends of Miss Alice May in the Colonies will be pleased to learn that the iuusical public of Great Britain are beginning to appreciate her undoubted ability as a vocalist and an artiste. A gentleman connected with this office has handed us the following letter, which he has received »by the last mail, from Mr Gr. B. Allen, the talented prima donna's husband :— " Liverpool, -' ; " Dee; 16th,1876; ',• My Deab Mb.—— "Among the pleasant remembrances that both my wife and self have of New Zealand we consider as not the least your admiration of her artistic talents, so enthusiastically "expressed, in those verses you wrote about her. I may mention that they have already appeared in T the Musical World and other papers, and will, without I am much mistaken appear in many more yet. -, ;, , "As the • Young Antipodean Prima Donna,' as one of the papers here style her, has made a debut, perhaps the most successful on record here, I- hasten to let you know it. All the papers I have seen i praise her highly. I enclose some cri«" tiques, with which I am sure you will bfiflfcr pleased. The principal, proof of success^, is the fact that T/usiness has impirpved from the first night, and now people come to be pleased, and show it in their faces —which, as you know, the English ney?r do at first. , - •"• ;" lam sorry to say the fears and nervousness attendant on a debut have affected her a good deal, and she is^ far from well. But if so much success .is gained with only half her voice, what will she not do when * siie recovers its full • power? Carl Rosa.was astonished at it, and said he 'never expected to hear such a voice,' and paid the highest compliment - to an artiste—'you have the csacre.f#iV His engagements were. made -before" our arrival from that dreadful country) India, where _we lost some £4000 in some six months, with the exception of a Leggierio prima donna, which post she would not accept, and sonow-comes out in Opera bouffc, but, I think, the time will soon come when she will be wanted for grand opera. .... We appear at the Park Theatre, London, on Boring Night, for four weeks, and. then make a tour.of Ireland and Scotland before we produce something new in London. " We unite in kind remembrances and best wishes. ' s : - "Yours faithfully-;, !rJ ':?" . " GrjSOBGOI B. AllBN." Several of the criticisms mentioned in Mr Allen's letter speak in the most glow* ing terms of our old favorite, Miss Alice May. - -' - ... ■'•