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Brilliant Premiere Points to Record Opera Week j
- «PPELMUM ^ ore 6,000 Attend Opening of Gala Season:
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IS III II Auditorium Wonderful Maze of Beauty and Color
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i * plbaum r.ise,” said Mr. Jones
“i know the Appelbaums
During the time they lived in
>ttc my fir mrepresented some
parties in the Dryola Veneev-
ompany. This was a cone
Caruso anad Other Famous Stars
Given Ovation—Bori, New
Soprano, Charms.
S COTTI at top, and CARUSO, world famous opera stars in
Atlanta this week, snapped at play. Both are baseball
fans and here they are seen taking a “workout,” themselves.
Playing catch is a favorite pastime among the men of the
Metropolitan Company.
TO-DAY'S OPERA.
Verdi's “La Traviata.’
(In Italian.)
‘‘Traviata.’' with Frieda Hornpel as
Company This was a concern j t.lio Violetta and Umberto Macnez
App'dbaum promoted. He got In bad * { j lt ,
»i Charlotte. Appelbaum’s failure in ’ .
f '.harlot te was due to his crooked deal - \ -Atlanta a new soprano and a new
in^ .'.rid his failure to attend to busi-f tenor this afternoon in the second
rtrss - » performance of a surpassingly bril
"He worked a great many girls asf.. «
demonstrators, and he was eternally { Hant * eason - finale Amato, one
lixed up with some of them. In fact, t of the three Metropolitan baritones
this seemed to be his mania. Tli-fwho for three seasons have been ri-
board of directors finally had to pas:
a very unique resolution pertaining to
Appelbaum. They refused to allow
him to employ any more female dem
onstrators.
Calls His Wife “Square.”
"Finally he. got so tangled up with
the criminal laws that he had to leave
Charlotte,” said Mr. Jones. “His wife
stayed there for a while until she
could pet most of his crooked deals
straightened out. Mrs. Appelbaum
was sick most of the time w > Jbids fair to rival Sembrich and
in Charlotte. She was always con- *
si dared absolutely square in her busi
ness dealings and made a great many
friends there. If Mrs. Appelbaum were
able to pay their expanses to Atlanta,
a hundred or more of the best people
In Charlotte would come here to tes
tify in her behalf.
‘•Appelbaum," continued Mr. Jones.
•was a charmer. He fooled some of
the most conservative bankers of
Charlotte, and they were so ashamed
they would not prosecute him. He
, ould make you think the moon was
made of green cheese.
“I lived very near the Appelbaums
in Charlotte, and Mrs. Appelbaum was
always considered a lady there. She
moved in the best circles.”
Salesmen for Defense.
it is understood that Alvin Rob
erts and G. Cohen, traveling salesmen.
\*bo occupied a room at the Dakota
Hotel next to Mrs. Appelbaum on the
night of the killing, will testify for
i he defense, they having sworn at the
kroner's inquest that they hear 1 4
footsteps leaving the Appelbaum room
in the interval between the first and i
sfcoiwl shots. This will be used ‘o
•support the suicide theory, it having
been brought out that Mrs. Appel-
btumi left their room and hurried to
tl: hotel lobby immediatel yafter the
-hooting.
vals for Atlanta’s plaudits, was heard
in the fine role of Germont.
It was the first time the old Ve.rdl
opera lias been given by a first-class
company in Atlanta, and the work
was chosen for the opportunity it
gives the soprano for brilliant, florid
passages. Mme. Hern pel has been
heralded as a coloratura soprano who
Tet
razzini, and the two roles chosen for
her Atlanta appearance, Violetta and
Lucia, should permit her to prove*her
claims.
Macnez, a recent addition to the list
of Metropolitan tenors, had a fine part
in the role of the lover, and Amato’s
sonorous baritone was given full
swing In the great "Proven/.*,” an air
'4
Cottoienei
makes delicious doughnuts
CJottolene uuikfs <11* 1 i <• i o u s
loughnuts free from sogginess,
.•ivaHf and indigestion. The rea
son is that Cottolene contains
vegetable oil not animal fats
heats to a much higher degree
I hail butter or lard, fries so
quickly that it forms a crisp, dry
crust over the dough and pre
vents the absorbing of the fat.
Cottolene is decidedly better
than butter or lard for all short
ening and frying. It is healthier,
it is quicker, it is more econom
ical.
Cottolene costs no more than
lard; you use. but two-thirds of a
pound of Cot
tolene to do
the work of a
full pound of
butter or lard,
Cottolene'*
is never sold in |
bulk—always in
air-t i g h t tin
pails, which pro
tect it from dirt,
dust and odors.
It is always uni-
form and de
pendable.
THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY
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descriptive of tlu; "fair land of Prov
ence." The Metropolitan ballet made
its first appearance for this season.
The audience, while not so. large as
that of the opening night, nearly lined
the Auditorium, and received the
vocal skyrockets which mark Violet
ta's arias with rapturous applause.
There will be no performance to
night. Society must have opportuni
ty for late dinners and beauty sleep,
the orchestra and chorus must have a
bit of rest, out-of-town visitors are
anxious for an evening of ‘Veeing the
town.” It is u. tar more admirable
arrangement than in the earlier sea
sons, when four or live consecutive
nights of opera left company and au
dience alike on the verge of nervous
breakdowns.
The opening of the season last night
was perhaps the most brilliant ever
known in an Atlanta season. The
Wednesday and Thursday
Rogers’ Special Jelly Rolls 6c
Our modern bakery is as near perfect as a
baker\ can be made. It is strictlv sanitary—no
dust, dirt or odors. Our bread and pastry art-
mixed and handled by machinery, the quantities
used are weighed to the fraction of an ounce.
Nothing is left to guesswork. The result is we
furnish the finest qualities sold in Atlanta, and
at the lowest prices.
BETTER-BREAD 4c Loaf
costumes in the audience were more
elaborate, the jewels more gorgeous,
than in post seasons. More than 6.000
persons filled the great auditorium.
Colonel William Lawson Peel, pres
ident of the Atlanta Music Festival
Association, was enthusiastic to-day
over last night s success.
Puccini Opera Delights.
"Excellent, satisfactory,” lie sail,
and beamed. "The opening is indi i-
tive of a record-breaking week. The
evidence borne in lari night’s audi
ence assures the conviction which wo
have felt all along—that grand opera
in Atlanta is a permanent institu
tion.”
Never has a grand opera audience
in Atlanta been handled with less
confusion, less inconvenience, less
noise. The curtain rose within six
minutes of the hour—S o’clock—set
for the opening, and not a person was
seated afterward. There was no
scurrying up and down the aisles to
disturb the music, no clattering of
seats to interrupt a fine passage.
Those who arrived late stayed oul un
til the curtain had fallen on the tirst
act, and there were several hundred
of these.
Garusos first entrance was the sig
nal for a tremendous burst of ap
plause, which subsided only when the
tenor stepp i out of hi- i irt for a
bow to his friends. Scotti, too, this
time in a swaggering, jovial comedy
role, brought a roar of approbation
when he appeared with the dainty new
soprano. There were other old friends
in the cast. too. Segurola, who has?
sung the great basso roles in half a
dozen Atlanta performances, was the
Geronte. Bada’s fine tenor showed to
great "advantage in the Kdmondo role
and little Reis’s, the comedian, had
a delicious bit as the ballet master.
Maria Duchene’s fine contralto rang
clear for a few moments in the mad
rigal scene, and Ananian. Audisio and
Rossi had small roles. Sturani con
ducted.
The opera, though written twenty
years ago, is singularly characteristic
of Puccini’s style, it has* the same
cloyingly sweet string passages, the
same plaintive motifs for the love
duets, w hich were afterward developed
more elaborately in “Butterfly” and
“Bohertie.”
One could have recognized it as a
Puccini work without a program.
The orchestra is given a largo share
of the burden and its work was
exquisite as always, especially in the
somber intermezzo between the sec
ond and thind acts.
Caruso in Fine Voice.
Never before has Atlanta heard Ca
ruso in better voice. He has had roles
which gave his matchless tenor great
er opportunity for emotional passages,
which permitted hint to soar higher in
the clouds of top-note3. There*is no
moment in "Manon” equal to tlie Sob
Song in “Pagliacci;” no superb sus
tained high note as in the Brindisi of
“Oavelleria,” but in sheer beauty of
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and Saturday
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AUDITORIUM La Traviaia
MATINEE TO-DAY GRAND OPERA
METROPOLITAN OPERA COMPANY
Gioiio Gatti-Casazzi,
General Manager.
Full Orchestra-
OF NEW YORK
-Corps De Sailet-
John Brown.
Business Agent.
Original Scenery
Hempel, Mattfeld. Malbourg. Amato. Macnez. Roschiglan.
VARDMAN PIANO USED EXCLUSIVELY
s Violetta Frieda Hempel •
o Flora Bervoise.Jeane Maubourg •
o Annina Marie Mattfeld •
s Alfredo . Umberto Macnez •
o Georgio Germont •
o ...... Pasquale Amato •
• Gastone Angelo Bada •
o Barone Douphol •
o ........ Vincenzo Reschiglian •
• Marchesc d’Obigny •
o Bernard Begue •
• Dottore Grenvil •
o Paolo Ananian •
Divertissement by the Corps •
de Ballet. •
Conductor: Giuseppe Sturani. •
The performance starts •
promptly at 2 p. m. and the di* •
rectors announce no one will •
be admitted after the curtain •
rises until the end of the first •
act. •
tone, in exquisite shading, Caruso’s
voice had every chance and he made
the most of it.
The tenor’s fir«t fine number came
almost at the opening and was missed
by hundreds of late comers shut out
in the foyer. This was the ironic
love song addressed to the village
girls. It was but a short time until
the entrance of Manon gave Des
Grieux his second splendid number,
"Donna non vidi.” This is quickly fol
lowed by the duet of Des Grieux and
Manon, in which the young student
pours out the story of his new-found
love and the coy maiden confesses
her interest in the strange lover.
Comedy Not Lacking.
The first act, too. is filled with
comedy of a delicious kind. Scotti, as
the swaggering Lescaut, and Segurola.
as the senile lover, furnish a quanti
ty of fun, while Bada, as the rollicking
student Kdmondo. keeps every scene
enlivened. Scotti has never been neard
to better advantage than In the Les-
caut part.
It is not until tlie second act that
Mme. Boris soprano is given full
sway. Her aria descriptive of her
love for the deserted Des Grieux is
a typical EJucGni bit, plaintive, sugary,
touching. With the entrance of her
lover comes her finest number, and in
this scene—a long duet which ends
v it'n the pair in eac h other’s arms—
both Caruso and Bori are heard at
their best.
The scene is rudely interrupted by
the entrance of Geronte, and the cur
tain falls on a splendid ensemble.
Between ac ts is heard the intermez-
New Orleans, a bit of geography
purely imaginary on the part of the
librettist, and apparently strange to
the scene painter, who has depicted
towering bowlders and precipitous
hills more suited to the grand canyon
than to the salt marshes of Louis
iana. Here Caruso and Bori appear,
struggling across the desert and dying
of thirst. It is here Manon pours out
the beautiful aria, “Lone, Forsaken,
Abandoned,” and Des Grieux, standing
alone far up stage, in strong relief
against the crimson sunset, gives his
powerful burst of emotion. "There’s
nothing—nothing! Not a drop of wa
ter.”
Then follows the death of Manon.
clasped in the arms of her lover. There
is a final sob from the violins, and
the velvet curtain fell on the first
•opera of the 1913 season.
Opera Sidelights;
Women Outnumber
Men at the Opening.
Is grand opera dearer to feminine
Atlanta than to that portion of the
city’s populace that votes?
A pale, high-browfd youth took his
station at one side of . the Auditorium
lobby as the big opera throng drifted
elowly out last night and cast an ob
servant eye over the assembly.
"Not one-fourth of them are men,”
lie remarked. Then his attitude
came one of philosophic meditation as
to why.
Whatever his conclusion, his pre
mise was correct. Women outnum
bered the men two or three to one,
with the result that half those of the
fair sex at the opera were unat
tended.
Two boys whu sold librettos of the
opera are authority for the statement
that the heaviest sale was among the
women, or to escorts who were per
suaded by the girls with them. They
related experiences.
"An’ one guy says: ‘Wot, 35 cents
for this? Gee, Mabel, this here gran’
opera is goin’ to bankrupture me, but
if you say you can’t get along with
out it, here goes.’ An’ he buys,” re
lated one of the young traffickers.
"Lots of them was that way.”
And having obtained the librettos,
the women proceeded to use them.
With the house darkene d, lhtu a
of lights appeared here and th*
They were pocket flashlights, 2
every case was held by a woman 1
She bent desperately over the in,
pretative book, and placed everv «.
with its note. She was there'to ^
prehendingly hear and enjov
opera. Maybe she did 1 8rai11 *
The hack rows of the dress m,
and most of the balcony held
almost exclusively. Girls mei1
with other girls, girls who came
their mothers, women who came
next-door neighbors, all were the! 1
but without men. there ~ j
Audible sniffs and coughs ■,r„i
in the third and fourth acts ami Sl)
t'fuC applications of handkeUSi
were indicative at the „v,. rtt „;:.
femininity of the auriienn v, n *
was very wistful and yen , jf""
the third and fourth acts,' and m V"
moiselle Bori sang very plaintivHv'l 1
of her heart. And the women' £
liaved as women very properly
under the circumstances. They -
It was a dear opera. That van''
should have come In force is not ,7"
prising.
Descriptions of the beautiful n ov ,.,
worn at the opera opening appear ,.
Pages Four, Eight and Nine P
zo, descriptive of the journey to
Havre, a somber prelude suggestive
of moments in "Butterfly.” It has
often been said the mere orchestra ac
companiment of a Puccini work is an
opera in itself; tiiat a lover of music
would find the orchestra alone almoe
as effective as the complete work,
and this is as true of “Manon Les-
caut” as of the composer’s later
works. The intermezzo is so strik
ing in its sad beauty that it is often
played a.- a concert number.
It is in the third act that the trage
dy of “Manon” begins. The curtain
rises on a dim-lit stage, the prison
at Havre, with the convict ship in
tlie background. Des Grieux and Les-
caut appear in the semi-darkness,
plotting the escape of Manon from
her cell. But the attempt fails, dawn
appears, and the stage suddenly is
filled with soldiery and townspeople
It is here the finest chorus numbers
appear, and here that Caruso pours
out his soul in a vain plea for Manon’s
freedom.
Among Louisiana Bowlders.
The third act shows a plain near
Davison-Paxon-Stokes Co.
Wednesday—a Quick Dis
posal of a Little Special
Purchase of Lingerie
Dresses
Only 354-—All Told—Dresses Regularly Priced Here at
$7.50. $9.00, $10.00, $12.50, $15.00, $18.50 and $25.00.
For To-morrow, They Are Divided Into Three Groups and
Priced at-—
#3.90 #5.90 #7.90
The best reward of a great achievement is the power to do somethin*;
better.
Doing is learning.
The last time we ottered "Special Purchase" Dresses at a very low
figure we thought it impossible to give greater values at such absurdly low
prices.
But, "the bridge of endeavor spans the sea of impossibility.”
We made the effort—the Dresses are here and the opportunity is yours
to-morrow.
‘File Dresses are being unpacked as this is written. They will be ar
ranged on four large tables for convenient choosing, and judging from
their value and desirability, coupled with the wonderfully low prices, we
calculate they will remain only a few hours.
Dainty white, summery Frocks of various pretty styles—lingerie,
voiles and sheer grenadines. A touch of color introduced here and there,
in a girdle, a fascinating velvet bo w at the neck, a smart sash or in dain
ty bits of embroidery. Plenty of all-—white dresses for those who prefer
them. And choice of high neck, low n eck, long sleeves or three-quarter
lengths.
Every one new and stylish, and SUCH A VARIETY OF
KINDS. The main thing is to SHOP EARLY if you would
share this sale. Which means paying $3.90, $5.90 or $7.90
for regular $7.50 to $25 Dresses.
Women Wanting Fashionable,
Summery Blouses
will find plenty of exquisitely
dainty styles here with low
necks or high collars—well
boned—and either long or
three-quarter steeves.
They are particularly well
fitting, too—many customers
have told us how perfectly the
stocks and sleeves tit. Beau
tifully trimmed with tine laces
and touches of liand-embroid-
ery here and there.
This particular collection,
priced $2.50, $2.75 up to $5
00.
Girls 9 Stylish
Middy Dresses
at $1.50
Dills like them because they are
smart, jaunty, and ideal for school
and outdoor wear. Made of chain-
bray or galatea, tan, blue and white,
with trimmings of blue or red or
striped material; 6 to 14-vear sizes.
Girls 9 Balkan
Dresses
at $2.50
These are entirely new, and as
pretty and becoming as new. .Made
of tan or blue chambray—straight
line dresses with belt; a front panel
is prettily embroidered; three-quarter
kimono sleeves are also embroider
ed: (j to 12-vear sizes. Price $2.5<*.
Davison-Paxon-Stokes Co.