Americans in Paris

Again Americanism! One Andres de Segurola has gathered around him a band of native operatic artists and plans to show Paris what he can do. With the score of Victor Herbert's Natoma sticking out of his pocket, he has sailed for France, accompanied by Rosa Ponselle, Anna Fitziu, Florence Macbeth, Anna Roselle and other members of our Metropolitan, Chicago and San Carlo companies.

This group will open a season of grand opera at the Sarah Bernhardt theatre on May 26.

Said Andres, himself a onetime second basso at the Metropolitan: "I am firmly convinced that we can show that American artists can give a perform-ance that equals if not betters those given by Europeans. . . . If the venture is successful . . . there is every possibility that in 1925 America will see a season of grand opera by American singers."