M'lle Zelie De Lussan

Nym Crinkle, the well-known dramatic critic of New York, wrote of M'Ue Zelie de Lusaan in January last as follows ; "I never heard Zelie in opera until sbe came here, but I always had a beliet that when fhe did come in opera she would bring her intrinsic charm with her. UI was not mistaken. "The night that I heard her there was an overwhelming assemblage at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, and it was not friendly - only unprejudiced and willing to be won. "When Marie came on with a roulade in the first act it saw a bllack-eyed and black-haired girl, modestly attired in vivandiére dress and little boots. Her narrow face was the sharp-cut, intelligent and pretty face of a French bruñe. Her dark eyes had a Southern flash in them, her slightly Semitic noee was saucy and de'erminative, her mcuth, which opened vertically in the Italian and not litterly m the Germán style, was pink and full of little. gleaming, white teeth. When it did open in the well-known stram, 'II reggimento mió,' there carne forth a warm, round soprano voice of pure quality and of digciplined strengtb. Her method was apparent at once. Her intonation, her phrasing and her economy of force must have told every musician in the house, bofore Bhe had sung five bars of the duet, hers was the 8elfcon6dence and the knowledge of a thoroughly traintd vocalist. "Her audience was not immediately won. It was not until she came to tb ginging lesson that, gathering herself up, she made fuil exhibition of her resources and set them in puch a purely French byplay that the audience gave way and announced unanimouely that it w&s satisfied." .