Article on "Puffing" of Maretzek's Opera Singers by Other Newspapers

Overview of reviews in other papers of “the three recently imported artists at the Academy—the prima donna, tenor and basso” who recently appeared in Ione, showing “that the criticism of the organs of the opera is strained to its utmost tension to make first-class artists out of them”—the singers are never named.  The piece concludes that “if the opera organs cannot do better than this they will never be able to manufacture first rate artists to order.  Among the mass of extravagant adjectives in their puffy criticisms these few wedges of truth forced themselves in.”