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MUSICAL COURIER
January 19,1922
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“THE SEASON’S FIRST PERFORMANCE OF ‘THAIS’ WAS GIVEN AT THE SATURDAY MATINEE, WITH MARGUERITE NAMARA MAKING HER DÉBUT IN THE TITLE RÔLE. SHE MADE A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE, AND ACTED WITH ASSURANCE. SHE WAS ABLE TO PUT AN INTEREST OF HER OWN INTO THE RÔLE.
-CHICAGO DAILY JOURNAL, JAN. 3, 1922.
CONFIDENT STAGE MANNER AT ONCE IMPRESSED THEMSELVES UPON THE AUDIENCE, AND WHOSE VOICE HAS CLARITY AND A PLEASING QUALITY. NAMARA HAD NO EASY TASK IN THIS RÔLE, FOR SHE HAD TO FOLLOW THE VIVID AND MAGNETIC THAÏS OF MARY GARDEN. WHILE OCCASIONALLY THERE WERE SLIGHT SIMILARITIES IN THE TWO CONCEPTIONS, NAMARA’S INDIVIDUALITY CAME TO NOTICE. SHE MAY BE SAID TO HAVE MADE A VERY GOOD IMPRESSION.” — MAURICE ROSENFELD, CHICAGO DAILY NEWS, JAN. 3, 1922.
“IT WAS NAMARA’S FIRST APPEARANCE HERE IN THE CHIEF ROLE OF AN OPERA. SHE WAS A THAIS MORE THAN ORDINARILY GOOD LOOKING, AND WITH AN AGREEABLE VOICE. HER PICTORIAL CHARM KEPT UP TO THE END. EVEN THE CONVERTED AND REFORMED THAIS OF THE DESERT WAS KEYED TO WINSOME PATHOS RATHER THAN ANY FIERCE, WHITE LIGHT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. SHE WAS MUCH APPLAUDED.” -EDWARD MOORE, CHICAGO SUNDAY TRIBUNE, JAN. 1, 1922.
At Debut with the Chicago Opera Company As Thais, Shows Fresh, Warm Voice, Scores Success, Wins Applause.”
(Heading in Chicago Evening American.)
“She Met with the Enthusiastic Approval of Her Audience.״
—Paul Bloomfield Zeisler, Chicago Herald-Examiner.
“MUCH OF THE CREDIT FOR THE PERFORMANCE GOES TO NAMARA, WHOSE VOICE IS AS GOOD TO THE EAR AS SHE HERSELF IS TO THE EYE. IT IS A VOICE OF BRILLIANCE, WITH A RING TO IT, SxMOOTH AND EVEN IN ALL REGISTERS, OF PARTICULARLY FINE QUALITY AT THE TOP. HER CONCEPTION OF THAIS WAS THOUGHTFUL AND RESTRAINED, WITHOUT SACRIFICE ON THE SIDE OF TEMPERAMENTAL INTENSITY. SHE WAS NOT SO (SHALL ONE SAY) ‘COCOTTISH’ AS MOST; HER BLANDISHMENTS WERE NOT SO SPIRITUALLY TAWDRY, NOR HER CONSECRATION TO THE LOVE OF HEAVEN SO ECSTATICALLY ZEALOUS. IN THE SCENE WITH ATHANAEL AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND ACT, SHE DID SOME PLAYING THAT WAS SPLENDIDLY VIVID. SHE MET THE ENTHUSIASTIC APPROVAL OF HER AUDIENCE.”
— PAUL BLOOMFIELD ZEISLER, CHICAGO HERALD-EXAMINER, JAN. 3, 1922.

“SHE WAS, IN SHORT, A SUCCESS. LOVELY, GRACEFUL, SLIM, VERY MUCH AT HOME ON THE STAGE AND COSTUMED WITH TASTE, SHE WON THE AUDIENCE. HER VOICE IS OF VERY DELIGHTFUL QUALITY, FRESH AND WARM, IT CARRIES WELL AND IS HANDLED WITH DISCRETION. HER FRENCH, TOO, IS EXCEEDINGLY GOOD AND SHE IS INTELLIGENT. THE AUDIENCE GAVE HER EVERY PROOF OF ENTHUSIASTIC SATISFACTION.” -HERMAN DEVRIES, CHICAGO EVENING AMERICAN, JAN. 3, 1922.
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“IN ‘THAIS’ WE HAD IN THE NAME PART MARGUERITE NAMARA, WHOSE GOOD LOOKS AND
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