RALPH
THOMLINSON,
baritone, who will give a vocal recital in the foyer of the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, February 20. The fine qualities of this baritone, including resonant voice, manly style and clear enunciation, are fast becoming known.
Photo by Howard Cox	MAY PETERSON
soprano of the Metropolitan Opera_ Company, singing to an invisible audience of 250,000, her voice being carried thousands of miles from the Westinghouse “broadcasting station" at Newark, N. J., through the medium of the new radiophone. Listeners on Prince Edward Island heard her, as well as audiences in Key West and Osh-Jcosh, Wis., Miss Peterson’s home city. (See story on page 8.)
MILAN RODER (Below) the conductor of the orchestra for the new musical play “Mar-jolaine,” now being presented at the Broadhurst Theater in New York. The music is by Hugo Felix and is of an unusually high standard for a production of this kind. Mr. Roder is an experienced uAelder of the baton and obtains excellent results from the singers as well as from the orchestra.
MERLE BAECK, soprano, who has been a pupil for some time of Grace Whistler. However, this next summer she will go abroad for further studies under none other than Jean de Reszke, after ivhich Mrs. Baeck will return to America and concertize. She is the possessor of a light coloratura voice, yet with a fine lyric quality.
TITO SCHIPA,
tenor of the Chicago Opera Association, garbed in a Mexican costume in which he gave some song recitals in Mexico with remarkable success. Mr. Schipa is a great favorite with the public there, as well as in Cuba and South America, where he appeared previous to his rejoining the Chicago Opera Company this season. (Photo by Fernand de Gueldre.)
HANS KINDLER, the eminent cellist, who has been meeting with tremendous ,success at all of hiji concerts this season, having appeared in most of the important music centers east of the Mississippi. Mr. Kindler has often been referred to as the Kreisler of the cello. (Kubey-Rembrandt Photo)