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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NKWS.WEDNI.’sDAY. APRIL 2?.. 101 A.
ILL TO-NIGHT;
the balcony scene, In which Cyrano
makes love In the darkness for Chris
tian, and tells of his own love Unrec
ognized by her.
Ai t four opens on the camp of the
Gascony cadet > and the second scene
of the act shows the park of the con
vent where Roxane learns the truth
of Cyrano’s love for her.
.Madame Frances Alda has been de
scribed by the critics a a perfect
Roxane. Th erole of Cyrano has been
developed admirably by Amato.
Feminine Atlanta All a-Flutter
v • v v • v v • ^
It’s Scotti, ‘the Grandest Thing!’
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Peachtree Stares as He Swings By
AGTRESS SCORNS
lempel Scores Remarkable Tri
umph on First Appearance Be
fore an Atlanta Audience.
M i.i opera-goers who have
. . , ,j for three seasons because
French and German have
aig w |ll have opoprtunity to-
learn whether opera in Eng-
. ally is preferable.
Metropolitan company is to
, English for the first time in
. ,, I a, and a work given its pre-
in New York only a few wtjeks
wi U be the offering. This is
,. in „ " written about ten years ago
Walter Damrosch, of New York,
not given a performance until last
Ebruary. It has been sung by the
Vt-op.ilitan but five times.
-i-; opera is novel, too, in that its
,,,given the baritone. Pasqua e
mate Who was accorded a veritable
S in his Traviata” role yester-
av afternoon, w illbe the Cyrano to-
, ahi Biccardo Martin, the Amen-
an tenor who has been among the
plants favorites since the first con-
L season five years ago. will be the
Hiri-ftian The Roxane will be
Ladame France? Alda, the beautiful
Australian and the wife of Geenr.il
■anag* i Gatti-Casazza. It was Alda
Iho pang Desdemona to Slesak s
\ , P i)o so well two seasons ago.
Hertz to Conduct To-night.
iifred Hertz, the jovial #1(1 Ger-
L„ conductor, has arrived especial y
t direct the music of “Cyrano. Pu--
tm Griswold, who sings but a tew
L" jn the whole Atlanta week, came
fi h him. and will be the De Gutch-
I hert Reiss, the little tenor comedian.
Ifl have the best role he has ever
|, rE in Atlanta as Ragueneaux the
Cefic pastry cook. Basil Ruysdae .
r handsome basso, whose name is
i U th though he is American born, .*
“other late arrival for the “Cyrano
'The'opera follows closely, until the
nale the Rostand play which caused
•oh a furore about twelve years ago.
Id in which Coquelin in France and
"ansflelil in the United States made
,ch great dramatic successes. The
uMr is said to be excellent, running
, e gamut from the frivolous comedy
f Ragueneau to the solemn and
tierdlv beautiful death sotig of C y-
ino as the curtain falls. The book is
\V. F. Hepderson, one of the lean-
,g- musical critics and writers of
ew York, and adhere as closely to
if> Rostand lines as is possible in a
a11v "singable” libretto.
Ponchielli’s “Gioconda.” with Des-
hi ("aruso. Gilly and Homer will be
ie hill to-morrow# afternoon. There
i1 be no night performance to-mor
ThirH Presentation of “Cyrano.”
Cyrano,” which will be presented
the Auditorium to-night* by the*
etropolitan company, is regarded by
any of the critics as the production
i meet the cry for a new and thor-
|ighl\ worthy American opera.
That the music for the opera was
itten a dozen years ago by Walter
imrosch does not in the least de-
rov its characteristic of newness,
r it received its first presentation
!y last February, when it was
aged in New York. It was given a
contl time in the metropolis and to-
g ■ it will have its third presenta-
|)n.
I’he book, following in its plot many
the essentials of Rostand's “Cyrano
Bergerac,” is the work of W. J.
Henderson, who collaborated with
kmrosch. It is pronounced admir-
|le in structure and versification and
t* 5 picturesque English.
Work Is Melodious.
Ir. Damrosch says of his own
Hempel Newest
Idol of Atlanta.
Atlanta has a new idol to-day
There is a new star in the musical
firmament. Frieda Hempel is thi
name on every operagoer’s lips since
the success of the young Berlinese
yesterday afternoon. That Frieda
Hempel is the greatest "find” of grand
| opera of the past decade is the enthu-
i siastic declaration of hundreds.
Not since Sembrich reached her
j zetiith and turned from opera to con-
I cert has the Metropolitan possessed a
1 coloratura artist of the front rank.
Tetrazzini shone with the Harnrner-
! stein forces, but lias never been a
; permanent member of the older com
pany Alma Gluck, who sang hen-
last season, gives promise of ripening
| into a great singer of the florid arias.
But not until Hempel came across
the water this season has the corps of
j singers under Gatti-Casazza Included
a soprano who could do justice to the
trills and cadenzas of “Triaviata” and
: “Lucia” and “The Barber of Seville.'
| And that is ope of the reasons why
I these operas' and similar works hav<
Scotti snapped by a lieor^ian photographer as he strolled
along Peachtree Street.
? not a music drama; it is an
1 have gone to older models
|an Wagner. The scoring is light;
w work is melodious. There are set
pas and the singers have as much
J'Ody to sing as the orchestra.”
Iv pleasing scenic effect in the first
is the reproduction of a tiny thea-
in the Hotel de Bourgogne in 1640.
Jen after the arrival of the minia*
theater’s audience of cavaliers,
ifghers. lackeys, pages and fiddlers,
violinists play an overture which
Jmrosch describes as based on the
e Lully. It is a most delightfu’
delicate bit of instrumentation,
he second act is marked by the
|ver patter song. “How to Make Al-
fnd Cheese Cake.” and by another
hg. not dissimilar in style, “We Are
Gascony Cadets.” The scene is
in Ragueneau's pastry shop, “the
eating house.”
Mme. Alda Perfect Roxane.
he street before the house of Rox-
is the s*cene of the third act. Rox-
who has just parted with De
: ; goes into the house as Cyrano
F ' hristian appear. Then follows
I been so rarely included in the Metro
politan’s repertoire.
Amato Given an Encore,
The matinee yesterday was remark-
| able in several ways. It drew an au-
| dience almost as large as that of ih°
opening night, with enough men in it
to prove Atlanta music patronage Is
not entirely in the hands of the worn-
en. It introduced the new coloratura
.and it brought Pasquale Amato per-
! haps the greatest outburst of .spon
taneous, uncontrollable applause he
! has ever known.
For the second time in its history
the Metropolitan company broke its
! tradition of never repeating a number
I The first occasion was on the closing
night of last season, when Carueo.
Gilly. Gluck and .Wickham repeated
| the great “Rigoletto” quartet.
The second occurred yesterday,
i when Amato, his face wreathed in
smiles, waited and waited for the ap-
| plause to cease, and then, after a nod
| from the stage manager, signaled to
Conductor Sturani and began for the
I second time the wonderful “Di Pro-
venza il mar." At every curtain call
after that he and Hempe] shared the
honors.
But Amato was a favorite of sev-
I oral seasons. Frieda Hempel was a
i newcomer, without friends in At
lanta. without enough English to chat
with new-found acquaintances. She
I won attention with her first words.
| held her audience in every bar until
I the close of the act. and swept her
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hearers into the seventh heaven of
musical ecstasy when she soared in:o
the famous aria "Ah fors’ e lui.”
It was a number which had been a
favorite show-piece of Melba and
Tetrazzini and Sembrich, and many
in the audience had heard one or ad
of these artists, hut when Hempel
had trilled her last note there was
that moment of silence which always
has been the truest tribute to perfec
tion then a thunder of applaus*
which held the orchestra mute until
it subsided. And it subsided only
after the singer had smiled and bowed
her thanks to her first Southern au
dience.
A Most Finished Singer.
Frieda Hempel is already being
termed the greatest coloratura. More
than that, she is one of the most fin
ished singers in the Metropolitan
forces 8he sings with absolute ease,
her voice is dear, full and well-
rounded and her shading is perfec
tion itself. Her soprano is as pure
and unfaltering in the soft, low pas
sages as in the cadenzas which mark
her more emotional scenes. She is I
tall, of a handsome figure. She has
beauty and siie has youth. Critics
believe she will yet be recognized as I
one of the great personages of th.'
operatic stage.
The opera also introduced a new
tenor to Atlanta, Umberto Macnez,
who sang the Alfredo role, and sang
it well. But the tenor part in ‘‘Tra
viata" is so overcrowded by the bril
liancy of the soprano's arias and the
succession of magnificent numbers
ven the baritone that he must be
very exceptional singer who could
»ake it prominent. Mr. Macnez was
u his best in the final duet with
adame Hempel, "Parigi o cara."
hioh ends with Violetta’s collapse
’i her lover’s arms and her death
s the curtain falls.
"Traviata" itself set its hearers
ild. It is preeminently an opei.t
■ r the masses, for, like all of Verdi’s
works, it is tuneful, melodious, har
monious. The man who wrote "Trova-
tore” and "Rigoletto” and "Aida” was
not afraid of being called a tune-
maker. Almost the entire first act
of “Traviata" is one continuous,
throbbing, rhythmic waltz. There are
duet? and trios innumerable, earn
with that blending of voices of which
Verdi was such a master. It contains
several numbers which have been fa
vorites of all the great singers, and
the finale of the third act is one of
the finest concerted numbers in oper
atic repertoire.
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Baritone’s Saunter Has Douglas
Fairbanks or J. Drew Eclipsed,
Declare Fair Admirers.
There's Signor Antonio Scotti. Why
can't we all make diadems out of our
mere straw hats, and scepters out of
our cause, and play the Prince Fharih-
ing to the utter rout of maiden*
everywhere? Because, most likely,
we are not Antonio Scotti.
Style and savoir-faire seemed to
radiate from the stalwart, erect figure
that made its way leisurely along
downtown Peachtree to-day. Military
precision was there, and yet a natural
grace that made it plain that the dig
nity iva? innate ano not artificial.
A tailor, measuring a customer,
glanced out into the street and saw
ihe figure pass his shop door. He
rushed to the door and gazed at the
tight coat, the square shoulders, the
ultra-correct trousers, with eyes of
artistic appreciation. Then he went
back and changed a few entries on
customer’s order blank.
An automobile sped along the stieei
with a long-drawn blast of a siren
whistle. Four girls saw the stalwart
figure.
“Gee. It’s Scotti!”
“Ou-u-u-u-u.” Four blended gasps
echoed the siren and resounded above
it. The automobile slowed and turned.
‘It’s* Scotti,” said the girl at the
wheel, whispering, awe-struck.
Scotti sauntered leisurely. (Jet the
Scotti saunter. It has Dougla? Fair
banks. John Drew and every other
idol overshadowed. Not even a mov
ing picture man has anything like it.
Atlanta maidens have spoken.
Shoulders immovable. Arms swing
in an arc of four and three-quarters
inches Head five degree' to the right.
Toes out.
Lord help the Atlanta man with the
pigeon toe**. Scotti throws his feet
out.
But back to the story of how four
tender hearts went fluttering, ro
mance-winged. out into a dream
world. And not only four.
The automobile crawled slowly
along Peachtree, in the wake of the
sauntering Scotti. Oblivious to traf
fic dangers, pedestrians, shop win
dows. everything, four pairs of eyes
.-•tared Four girls talked in w hispers.
The Cute Little Cane.
"Did you see him at the Auditorium
yesterday afternoon, walking around
the boxes” I think he is the*
gran-n-ndesi thing. Look at that
little cane hooked over his arm.
Isn't that the cutest thing.’ Watch
him walk. Ou-u-u-u.”
Then the four rapt maidens saw
the luckiest woman in the world. \
handsome automobile swept by. Its
occupant, a woman, gowned and glo
rious, also saw the superb Scotti.
She spoke to her chauffeur, and th
automobile stepped at the curb.
The great man smiled, and raised
his hat. His bow. from his hips,
awoke a convocation of rapturous
squeals from the automobile of the
four maidens.
The Scotti Handshake.
Scotti held out his hand to the
woman. Get the Scotti handshake.
Palm up. Fingers curled slighil>.
with the subtle compliment of being
Emma Dunn Declares Osculation
Has Been Recognized by Re- i
ligion Since Antiquity.
NEW YORK. April 1 liavr n.i
use for the unkissed woman," says
Emma Dunn, the actress.
"In a professional capacity and in
the execution of my duty as a wife to
Dan Slade in the play I have to kiss
m several times. Do you suppose
the public would tolerate a kLs upon
ihe ear or a smack upon the cheek?
Certainly not!
"The impulse that actuates the act.
the motive that prompts the impulse,
suggests tile lips, and therefore the
truest manifestation of genuine devo
tion is only evidenced when lips are
sealed in an exchange of love’s ex
pression.
"In rny leisure moments I have
compiled a symposium upon the sig
ni tic a nee of a kiss that may b«- rather
apropos. Do you know that from tlie
earliest records of men and nation**
kissing has been < onsidered and rec
ognized as an ordinance of patriar
chal. reverential and apostolic bene
diction.
Kissing Defies Crusaders.
"Notwithstanding the medical cru
sade instituted against it upon hy
gienic grounds, the kiss has and will
continue among the Teutonic, Celtic
and Latin races as an evidence, of
devotion and loyalty.
"As a religious ceremony the k ss
has been consecrated from the earli- j
e?t tim< s and appears to have been
an old Semitic and Aryan custom
for it is first mentioned in the Bible
in Genesis xxvii.. 26. when Isaac,
thinking he is addressing Esau, says
to Jacob, 'Come near now and kiss
me, my son.' In those days the kis-
formed •! part of the blessing bestow
ed by a father on his son.
"The practice of kissing is mention
ed no less than forty-one Urn .- in
Lhe Scriptures, but in only three in
stances do men i ml women partici
pate—once when Jacob ki sed his
cousin; once in Proverbs where the
kiss is used to illustrate the tempta
tion in a young man's way, aild once
when Mary kissed the feet of Christ.
Savior Betrayed With Kies.
Judas betrayed the M< ssiah with r
kis*. ‘Greet ye one another with ai
hols kiss.’ wrote Paul to the Gorin-j
thians; and sonn of the Protestant
sects still retain the ki>s a- part of
the service of the Lord’s Supper.
"Savage, rarely osculate. The- oseu-
Hitloirs of the Mm,gols Malays. Pol>-
neslanr. the Eskimos and Laplanders
consist chiefly of smelling each other
aru. rubbing noses, while in Thibet
instead of greeting by an adhesive
touch, the mode of salutation consists
of extending the tongue, but the eti
quette of the coutDrv does not permit
of any . hysical lontaci.
"North American Indians do not
kiss ex epting in the presence of
d^ath, when they profusely kiss the
feet of their beloved departed ones.”
eager to grasp t lie other persdh'is
hand. x nd then a firm, -un moving
grip ft three seconds, exactly, and
a convulsive quiver, lasting while you
count one. rapidly.
The maidens sighed in chorus. They
saw Scotti ascend to the woman's
side, with the air that he preferred
a seat in her automobile than a re
posing place on the bosom of Abra
ham.
"Who is it? What's her name?
Do you know her? Tell me quick."
All of which is a composite con
versation of four heart-stricken girls.
And the Luckiest Woman.
The other automobile rolled away,
bearing Scotti and the luckiest
woman in the world.
Why can’t we all—but we settled
that at the first. We can’t; that’s all
there is to it.
The funny part of this story,
though, is yet to come. The men d
Atlanta have noticed the Scotti style
and the Scotti air also, apprecia
tively.
"I'm simply wild about Scotti." said
the maiden who drove the automobile
with the four passengers. "And, some
how. 1 wasn’t afraid to tel! Harry.
He didn’t mind. He just made a
noise ilke this."
She tried to imitate a man s sigh.
Which she couldn't. It betokens an
agony of soul and a yearning that is
titanic.
Of course. Ha y sighed.
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