Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cent, is slowly but surely breaking up. Major-General Menoher, Director of Air Service, recently testified before a senatorial investigation committee that production is at a standstill, and that the aviation personnel has been wiped out. Such a condition is the more deplorable upon consideration of the action of foreign countries. Already French and English companies are developing the airplane as a cargo carrier in South America...
...reason is not far to seek. We have been getting our opera through foreign media--we have been subsidizing alien directors, conductors, and a thousand others to give us our music. They know their business, from their own viewpoint, at least. They know that once the fetish of opera sung in an uncomprehensible language is destroyed, their day is over...
...They know that once American singers become strong enough in the operatic field to dispense with a foreign trade mark, then the next logical step is the employment of American directors, and American conductors, and the shift from a foreign to the native language. Not only this, but our singers instead of studying abroad, would be taught in this country...
...continued Mr. Beck, "opera can be sung in English, and produced as well under American direction as under any other. More, it gives greater enjoyment to the mass of the people which comprise the average audience when it is sung in an understandable language than when foreign singers use a medium that but few of the audience can comprehend...
...understood, then a large part of the music must lose its effect. When we develop generally, as the Boston English Opera Company has developed, a native opera, under native direction and native conductors, we shall have a truly popular opera, and at last we shall be emancipated from the foreign operatic monopoly...