Sunday Sacred Concert

“’Cosmopolitan Hall is the title of a new concert hall recently opened on Third avenue, near Sixteenth street. Concerts are given every evening on the German plan, a well selected orchestra and several female singers furnishing the instrumental and vocal music. Of the singers, one lady, named on the programme Miss Eloise Clyde, is worthy of commendation. She commenced singing at the hall on Sunday evening, March 21^st, on which occasion, and at each appearance since, she has met with a most enthusiastic reception. She has a commanding presence, possesses a clear voice, of good compass, evidently well cultivated, and her songs are given with good taste and judgment. The hall, although clean and orderly, and attended by a respectable class of patrons, is scarcely the proper place for a lady possessing her vocal abilities, for the surroundings, in the way of lager beer drinking, and smoking, seriously detract from the merit to which she is justly entitled. Miss Clyde should seek some more suitable place in which to sing. Whoever told the other ladies that they could sing, and induced them to come before the public, have committed a grievous wrong, not only upon Mlle. Migionette and Md. Schultz—as they are named on the programme—but upon those who may be induced to visit the ‘Cosmopolitan.’ They seem to have no more idea of music than an uneducated sacred bull has. With proper attention, and the selection of good attractions, we see no reason why the proprietor of this new east side hall should not meet with success,”