Music.

The article discusses performing arts. Plain is the way being indicated by the American Opera Company. To take a stale and sentimental Gallicism like French composer Charles Gounod's "Faust" and freshen it to the point of enjoyment is art. To do this in English is even more-it is history. If this offshoot of the now defunct Rochester Opera Company had no more to its credit than the new settings by performer Robert Edmond Jones and the modern staging by Vladimir Rosing, it would have justified its existence as a progressive operatic force. But it has more.