A DADY CONDUCTOR.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 740, 12 February 1910, Page 11

A DADY CONDUCTOR.

■' ;T|ie. lady' conductor of .comic opera, has arrived . '(says .' a jLondou , Writer). ..There aro many women! ivho :make' considerable incomes as' combers ofballads- and. as assistants in the -' mimical . comedy . work-, shops, but only .one .woman who flourishes--J-: -baton over, ian- orchestra of; moil.-ju'.a fully fledged.operi produced in a Epndon. theatre. Tliisis Miss. Marjorie Slaughter/ ■who has 'undertaken., to' conduct.''-'during a! of .her late ■ father's setting'of: "Alice.;in/: Wonderland,",., a'"favourite play .with; which! has. 1 already" been revived over a ' score of times. Though ; 19 . years of age, ' Miss Slaughter/has already! had a longmiisical training. ShsT helped her'father for some years, and subsequently composed two operettas, which' found! managers willing to, produce; ;them.;;: These'successes ,were attained before she .itas 17.!'' She owes!her. 'appointment, as a .'conductor largely to her. ', intimate., acquaintance ! ,'with ■■ the •mechanism-of the theatre,! "Anyone coin-' ing ;strahge' into! a"'playhouse," ;sho.'says/ "would" realise; the .difficulty' of .conducting, -J-for,'one 'must'have' experience and know iwhen to .takb. up and so on. Given ' this'-kiioiylcdge; the! work is" very ni«, and,;one can enjoy it , : thor-, oughly," Miss. Slaughter's ambition is to .write.; comic opera than. 1 , always to, conduct; it. . Her . ' first, experiment 'in the; composing; of' a fuU-loligth! •opera was! completed'. a l , few weeks^'■! ago, ';an!a is how managerial : consideration:;!