Life — March 6, 1913 — page 67: what you’re looking at

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‘Addison on the Opera Rares ; Boel Gee a aie ee (From “The Spectator.”) It is my design in this paper to de- bre bwsjore liver down to posterity a faithful ac- ale ; Y ‘ > count of the Italian opera, and of the : none gradual progress which it has made upon ace, I the English stage; for there is no ques- a tion but our great-grandchildren will be t p Or very curious to know the reason why an - = F their forefathers used to sit together pad | é: A os like an audience of foreigners in their ae oe acted before them in a tongue which oe? ; t 2 : y, they did not understand / “Arsinoe” was the first opera that gave us a taste of Italian music. The Great success this oper met wilh pre: A dear old lady of sixty-five was making her fifth trip through the Park last duced some attempts of forming picces summer. Four times had she surrendered to the call of that phenomenal region. upon n plans, which should give a Her visits there have a marked effect upon her health and spirits—she grows more natural and reasonable entertain- young again! ment than what can be met with in the Many people have gone back to enjoy anew the climate, scenery, wonders and elaborate trifles of that nation. This pastimes of alarmed the poetasters and fiddlers of e 5 the jew whl were mand tw deal tea America’s On eyserlan more ordinary kind of ware; and there- 1913 Season: June 18°to September 15 fore laid down an established rule, You can stop in sumptuous hotels or comfortable camps. which is received as such to this day, Of course you will want to go via Northern Pacific—only line to the original and “That nothing is capable of being well 1} northern entrance: Gardiner Gateway, and thus via Mammoth Hot Springs. set to music that is not nonsense.” Let me send you our illustrated literature—from it you will get some inkling of the cause of Grandma’s infatuation. Write today and thus visit the Geyserland This maxim was no sooner received ‘ ‘ of fancy. Then you will surely want to visit the Geyserland of fact next summer. than we immediately fell to translating I operas; and as there was no North Pacific R great danger of hurting the sense. of orthern acifric y those extraordinary pieces, our authors ' ‘A.M. CLELAND, General Passenger Agent, ST. PAUL Would. often make words of their: own Panama-Pacife-International Exposition, San Francisco, 1918 which were entirely foreign to the mean- ing of the passages they pretended to translate; their chief care being to make the numbers of the English verse an- swer to those of the Italian, that both of them might go to the same tune. Thus the famous song in “ Camille “Barbara sit’ intendo,” etc. Hymen Terrace, Mammoth Hot Springs “ arayisice sinterido,” ele Yellowstone Park—one of the most Barbarous woman, yes, I know your exquisitely colored formations im the Park Bad Air Problem? —You remember that roomthai bothered yeu so last year in the hot weather ? Don’t wait until it's just as bad again— —No matter how trying the conditions you can keep it full of fresh, pure air all the time if you put in a— He. 68.00 OFF. ; ; « which expresses the resent- natural in the other. I remember an Ready-to-Run Ventilating Set ments of an angry lover, was translated Italian verse that ran word for into that English lamentation: word: “Frail are a lover's hopes,” etc. “And turn’d my rage into pity!” And it was pleasant enough to see which the English for rhyme’s sake trans- the most refined persons of the British lated nation dying away and languishing to “And into pity turn’d my r. —It works perfectly in basements, vaults, tele- phone beoths, laboratories, in all places hard to ventilate. —It runs from any electric light socket. It can be moved from place to place. i : Te costs little to operate. It notes that were filled with a spirit of By this means the soft not were pays immediate dividends in p | rage and indignation. It happened also adapted to pity in the Italian, fell upon comfort and health. very frequently, where the sense was the word rage in the ish; and the Fite Fit cps Sind tw Boidile 13 rightly translated, the necessary. trans- angry sounds that were turned to rage padicmmntil position of words, which were drawn in the original were made to express B. F. Sturtevant Co., ; out of the phrase of one tongue into pity in the translation, It oftentimes Hyde Park, Boston, M: that of another, made the music appear happened otherwise, that the finest notes very absurd in one tongue that was very (Continued on pa 508.) 507 comicbooks.com