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I T nr T.Hfc] ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. Brilliant Premiere Points to Record Opera Week j - «PPELMUM ^ ore 6,000 Attend Opening of Gala Season: | *:•••:• * IS III II Auditorium Wonderful Maze of Beauty and Color tl Continued from Page One. 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 ► 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 ATLANTA ALL TH 1 S WEEK THEATER Matinees Wednesday and Saturday SUMMER PRICES Miss BiLLY long Matinees 10c and 25c And Company In Nights 10c to 5oc “WILDFIRE” GRAND THIS WEEK Mat. Today 2:33 Tonight 8:30 trj: ly LITTLE sq\rrj ck BiLLY JERE 6RA0Y-FRANKIE CARPENTER * CO. JAS. LEONARD & CO ED NORTON MARIO TRIO FRED ST. OKGE 4. CO IT IS KEITH VAUDEVILLE LYRIC THIS WEEK GEORGE SIDNEY And His Fun makers In BUSY IZZY The Merriest Girlie Show Ever Get Your Seats Now 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.