soprano, mado her reputation in Germany and became known to London audiences when, in his spring season at Covent Garden in 1913, Beecham gave the first performance in England of ' Der Rosenkavalier.' Sho was the Sophie in a brilliant cast which included Eva von der Osten and Paul Kniipfer. Her success was emphatic, her voice-a lyric soprano of charming quality-being heard to the utmost advantage in the trio. During the same season she sang, with equal success, as Eva in ' Dio Meistersinger ' to the Sachs of Weil and the Walter of Walter Kirchhof. As Pamina in the ' Magic Flute,' at Drury Lane in 1914, she revealed herself as one of the best Mozart singers of this generation. Since the war she has sung mainly in America. She is as much at homo in the concert room as on the stage. s. H . p.