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TIEARST'S SUNDAY AMKHICAN, ATLANTA. 0A„ SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 101T
Opera Stars Have Fun “Off Stage”
CARUSO GIVES HIS BLESSING.
Andrea de Segurola Smokes P irst Cig
arette; Caruso and Scotti Romp;
Dinh Gilly Yearns for Banjo
and Court Fashions.
SINCLAIR'S FIRST
WIFE VERY HAPPY
II
Burial Alive Cure
For Tired Nerves
Cult Leader Arrested for Attempting
to Place Followers in Coffins
Underground.
Andrea de Segurola will long re
member Atlanta for more things than
the great time that he said he had
here. Because in Atlanta It was that
he smoked his first cigarette.
Astounding, isn’t it, young man?
Segurola, a man of the very adven
turous world of grand opera; a man
who hag been everywhere, seen every
thing a romantic figure. Yet he
smoked his first cigarette the other
day in Atlanta. And he didn’t like it.
Grand opera stars, as you will find,
are the most pacific people in the
world. And because they are not no
had. their wickedness is the subject
for jesT.
“Isn't Jie a little devil, though?”
Hegurola said, and pointed to Caruso.
The great tenor was smoking one of
his long cigarettes.
"1 suppose \ou are very nice,” said
Caruso. ' Perhaps you never smoked
a cigarette.”
”1 never did,” declared Segurola
t'aruso shrugged his shoulders and
said something in Italian. The air
in which he said it marie the sentence
very plain, it is a safe bet that he
said:
Tell that to Sweeney,” or lo whom
ever is the Italian prototype of Mr
Sweeney.
•‘Well, 1 haven’t,” insisted Segu
rola.
"Nice man.” commented Caruso.
•■And I guess you wouldn’t.”
Something in the sunshine on the
Georgian Terrace must have gone to
Segurola’s head. His long years of
abstemiousness were forgotten.
Sure.” he said, "let me have one.”
For once Segurola came near to
'osing his monocle. It was at the
cough and sputter that came when
he drew his first Inhalation of tobacco
•moke.
There were only two or three wary
puffs for him. Then he lifted his right
arm He said something in Italian,
** he threw the cigarette out Into
Peachtree Street.
It must have been “never again”
He looked it.
l
* You dc
Gilly.
“Like it? Sure. <'razy about it.
But the public might think th«r*
was a oat loose somewhere. And any-
how. nobody with a watch on his
wrist could ever play a banjo.”
Gilly looked regretfully at the little
watch that, on a leather band, was
strapped to his arm
"Is that the trouble?” he asked,
earnestly. He was assured it was.
He went into the hotel without a
word. Returning a few minutes later, 1
he showed a watchless wrist.
“Gave it to my valet,” he said “Now ,
|I'm going down town and buy r.
banjo.”
Gum ChewingSure
Sign of Low Brow
Opera Audiences}
Rlccardo Martin, famous American
tenor, was on his favorite theme,
America and its part in music—and
Atlanta. He argued, gesticulating,
that in America lay the musical hope
of the future.
“Maybe the fullest development
hasn't come here yet,” he said, “but
wait.”
Atlanta people, he said, are court
ing Just such development. They warn
to get. on, musically .
•‘Your audiences are appreciative
and attentive,” he said.
‘Nothing restless about them. They
have sympathy.
‘Your audiences are as well garbed,
also, as any. Maybe that will be of
satisfaction to your ladles.”
And then he voiced his greatest
argument that Atlanta was getting
on in an artistic way.
“And " he began, collecting all his
force for the final point. “And also,
PHILADELPHIA. April -6. -An-'
] dreas De Andraie, self-styled “aypn"-
"— t tist and mystic," who claims that in
O ‘ r e J m • n_ _ _ *111 live to be 1.000.00U ycais ■
Socialists Second Marriage Does who attempted to 1>ur> thlrly , .
alive In coffins which lie intender *o
lower in a grave in the Kensington
section, sleeps now in a cell.
Andrate came to Kensington
cently and introduced himself as
ing able to make any nervous
[American feel like a youth throng,
j unique method. His treatme nt v.
to bury the patient alive in a coffin
Woman Who Shared Many Diffi- I and lower it into a grave about flfi
deep
Not Worry Former Spouse
in the Least.
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of laces and graces. He touched the
back of her hand lightly with his
lips.
“Pretty, isn't it?” he asked. “Nice
custom. Ought to have it. No germs,
either.”
Nothing succeeds like success. The
chivalrous Arabian was prompted to
further efforts when Madame Emmy
Destinn came in from the street.
"Madame,” he said, taking her hand,
“I salute you.”
He bent low. But Caruso was there
this time, and with Caruso to live is
to laugh. He jumped to a chair and
CARUSO GETS A KNEE HOLD” ON SCOTTI.
Caruso Plans to
Have Match With
Wrestler Gotch
Grand opera stars, coming to At
lanta, left their temperaments be- j
hind them Although they say them
selves that tiffs matter of tempera
ment the hair-pulling, plate throw
ing, neurotic behavior that nil along
has been falsely ascribed to temper
ament —is all a fake, anyhow.
“An artist can be a sane, sensible
i,:jnin being; so can an opern singer.”
s;id Antonio Scotti, world-famous
baritone, y esterday.
Then he and EurUm Caruso pro
ceeded to prove it, with a thrilling
imitation of a bout between Frank
Gotch and Hackenschmidt.
The two greatest singers in the
world had no reserve nor “temper
ament.” Scotti was leaning against
a post on the Georgian Terrace ve
randa. smoking a long, formidable
cigarette. Caruso approached.
Caruso, it must be said, knows his
Shakespeare. He struck a Julius Cae
sar attitude.
“Yon Scotti hath a lean and hun
gry look,” he misquoted. “He drinks
too much; such men are dangerous’
"Good,” commented Scotti, with a
touch of irony. “You’d better turn to
acting as a side line Instead of fooling
with that drawing of yours It is—
what would the Americans •ay" De
cayed—no. rotten ''
The fight started then, and was a
rather interesting affair while it last
ed. But Scottt was not of Caruso’s
bulk, nor of his science. The great
tenor introduced a hold that is un
known to other w restlers He locked
his knees on his opponent's neck and
Scotti capitulated.
"Ray,” shouted Caruso, waving his
hat In true college boy style, “bring
on your Mr. Gotch "
That was the way the camera
* aught him
mann, one of the conductors of the
company, told this:
He and Mr. Guard were going to
their apartments after a performance
in the Metropolitan Opera House in
New York. A newsboy rushed by,
yelling:
“Extra-a-a-a. All about the death
of William Jennings Bryan.”
They bought a paper, but never a
word did it have to sav about the
death of the Secretary of State.
Guard caught the boy by the arm and
looked at him severely.
“Son." he said, “do you know w r hat
happens to little boys who don’t tell
the truth about the papers they sell?”
“Sure,” replied the boy. ‘They
grow? up and gets to be press agents
for the shows.”
Misguided Youth
Wears Dress Suit
To Opera Matinee
It was another case of Eve with
the young man who wore a dress suit
to the “La Gioconda” matinee Thurs
day.
Nobody said anything to him. but
everybody looked, and an indefinable
something in the air made him feel
that his costume was. to say the least,
not au fait. .
Those sitting near him heard all
about it.
"My wife made me wear this,” he
said to the man next to him. Whom,
by the way, he had never seen before.
It was as If he just must justify him
self.
“The boss says as he was going
out of town, and that I could hava
his dress suit to wear to the grand
opera,” he explained. “Of course, I
wasn’t so awful crazy about it, but
when I told my wife she talked me
into it. Didn’t make no difference,
she said, if we was going to sit in the
balcony. And here 1 am. 1 wisht I
wasn’t.”
There was the plaintive note of
much embarrassment, combined with
physical discomfort, as the misguid
ed young man squirmed before the
gaze of his neighbors.
Here’s an Opera
Star Who Would
Be a Chauffeur
Umberto Macnez lounged in a deep,
soft chair in front of the hotel, and
looked out on Peachtree Street. His
eyes closed dreamily, and he hummed
to himself. In his thoughts he was
the lovelorn Alfredo of “La Traviata”
again.
The raucous screech of a siren horn,
as an automobile slid alongside the
hotel and stopped, aroused him. He
sat up straight and tense.
“Watch Macnez,” whispered Paul
Althouse, the tenor. “He’ll go wild
now.”
Macnez gazed out at the automo
bile. There was admiration in his
eyes. He said something half aloud.
But, as it was in Italian, it must he
lost to Atlanta. Its tone betokened
envy, love, appreciation.
Macnez waited until the passen
gers had descended from the auto
mobile, and then moved stealthily out
to the sidewalk. lie felt of the tires,
he press€‘d the horn softly, so that
it would not resound, he lovingly
patted its sides.
‘‘Macnez is crazy about automo
biles.” said ’ his friend on the hotel
porch. “I’ve gyt an idea that the one
secret ambition of his heart is to be
a driver.”
The tenor stood looking at the
beautiful machine. He pressed its
horn again, but with unconscious
force, and it barked.
The chauffeur came running out of
the hotel yelling.
"Here, you crazy boob,” he said
to the great Italian singer. “Cut that
out. will you? I can’t go anyw’here
without some loafer's got to monkey
SEGUROLA S FIRST SMOKE.
FREDERICKSBURG, VA.. April 26.
While his former wife is happily
living with Harry Kemp, the “Tramp
Poet,” in a bungalow on the bank
of the Manasquan River, a mile west
of Point Pleasant, N. J., Upton Sin
clair, Socialist and author, is equally
happy on bis honeymoon with his
second wife, who until yesterday was
Mips Mary G. Kimbrough, of Green
wood, Miss., daughter of Judge and
Mrs. A. McC. Kimbrough.
The life story, the trials and the ex
periments in sociology, psychology,
civic and marital life, made by the
Sinclairs after his first marriage, have
furnished interesting reading for
some time. Mr. Sinclair will take his
bride to Holland.
Meanwhile, following his divorce
from his first wife because of her af
fection for the Tramp Poet, Mrs. Sin
clair No. 1, Meta Fuller, declared
that the present state of affairs suited
her exactly.
“Harry and I are congenial,” she
declared. “Our tastes are similar, and
temperamentally we are much more
alike than are Mr. Sinclair and my
self. My friendship with Harry
Kemp I have pursued more conspicu
ously than my friendship with other
men.”
When Upton Sinclair flrsi met Meta
Fuller he was making his way
through the College of the City of
New York, by writing sensational
stories for children.
They lived in a tent until Mrs. Sin
clair’s health gave way, and they
were forced to abandon this “Cave-
Man’s” life. Sinclair had but $3 in
the world when they were married.
He has more than $3, however, after
the sale of his first successful and
equally sensational book exposing the
stockyard disgrace of Chicago. It
was called “The Jungle” and was
widely read throughout this country
During their trial for divorce, two
years ago, Mrs. Sinclair declared:
“There is a higher ideal than a paid
Supreme Court Justice’s opinion. I
can sum up my views of life in two
words—love and freedom; freedom
to place my love where I care to, and
love to have my freedom.”
feet deep. He insisted that
the patient was placed in Uu
he would put him into a hvpno
spell. It didn't take long for ni.-j
new’s to spread.
Young, middle-aged and cl. * :
men arrived in Kensington. Tlup
were all nervous, they declared, an
all wanted to be buried alive. An '
draie had several laborers dig the >
graves. The men all stood in line.
Neighbors who heard the noise sum- ''
moned the police.
A squad of detectives arrived at 1 ' '•
placed Andraie under arrest for ; -
breaking the peace. Andraie was j
held in $500 bail by Magistrate Camp-
bell. The prisoner said he intends} ion
to start a cult here.
tl: i.
Ambassador Page ,,
For Disarmament s
South Carolina University President
Quotes U. S. Envoy to England
at Sociological Congress.
Walter H. Page, recently made Am
bassador to England, is for disarma
ment of the nations and the estab
lishment of an international court of
arbitration, according to Dr. C. S.
Mitchell, president of the University
of South Carolina, one of the prin
cipal speakers at the Sociological
Congress.
“Standing by the tomb of his great
forbear, Chief Justice John Marshal,
Mr Page told me,” said Dr. Mitchell,
“that he dreamed of and hoped for
the day when the nations would lay
down their arms; when the principle*
that were uttered by the first great
jurist of the United Colonies might b
woven into international life.”
“It would be the realization of iny
fondest hope as an Ambassador to
the Court of St. James if I could aid
in bringing the nations nearer to that
goal when law instead of war shall
rule; when an international court of
arbitration shall settle the disputes of
peoples instead of appeals to arm-.”
Page told Dr. Mitchell.
in, Chairman of the
ioceanic Canals, m
His comment was
mtor Chamberlain’s
•:11e both the Clay-
Hay-Pa uncefote
as introduced to-
, roused widespread
istantly met with
its. notably from
ah*o of the Canal
Senator Smith, of
Millionaire’s Son
Preaches for Poor
Yale Graduate Forsakes Riches to
Take Place in Methodist
Pulpit.
Gilly
Gives Away
His Wrist Watch
and Buys a Banjo
'ho said Dinh Gilly could not speak
Arabian baritone win
to the purest of pur*
yesterday. It probably
accent, but it made up I
with perfect syntax.
”1 have longed, long have I
onged—“ he began
“How long?” asked Paul Althouse
A long time have I wanted to
)tay one of your American banjos,”
no- said, "like this.”
He swung his cane, with its heave
gold knob, into the proper position.
«nd scraped the imaginary strings
give it a tune he warbled in ac
orn paniment to his moving hand.
■ 'Everybody’s doing it, doing it,”
Bang.
Gee," said Althouse. ‘ if your banjo
is going to be like that, you’d
better jg-ick to Just singing You can
as 1 looked out into the faces of six
thousand of you the other night. \
saw that none was chewing gum
There's the acid test for the low-brow
nt grand opera. Gum chewing marks
him infallible. We always feel, when
facing an audience whose jaws are
moving, that here is a bunch that
don’t care much."
Courtliness of the
Old Days Ought
To Rule—Gilly
Courtliness is sadly lacking from
our world to-day. This is the criti
cism of Dinh Gilly.
“I mean that the prettj formality
Is going fast. None of it is left.
Why can’t the old customs stay w ith
us?" he said. “This for instance.”
Madame Frances Alda, radiant in
tho spring morning, came on the hotel
porch.
"Madame,” he said, ”1 salute you.”
He bent low over her hand, with a
bow that came direct from the courts
spreads his hands
the two,
"Bless you. my
nounced solemnly.
"That’s the way,” grumbled Dinh
Gilly “When a man docs anything
nice, they always credit him with
serious intentions.”
N. Y. Newsboy
Tells Guard Why
Is a Press Agent
\\ J. Guard, publicity agent of the
Metropolitan Opera Company, is
everybody's favorite at the Georgian
Terrace, where he stopped for At
lanta’s opera season. When his angu
lar form was one of a group, it was
always to be known that the group
wae enjoying itself. And Mr. Guard,
much of the time, was the good-
natured subject of the. joke.
One particular occasion drew a
laugh the other dt\y. Richard Hage-
‘Turkey Trot’ Is
Dance All Opera
Stars Can Enjoy
I The Metropolitan grand opera stars
'are apostles of the turkey trot. It
| seems to fit their temperaments—if
they really possess any of that inde
finable quality.
“Pose for me a picture." begged a
newspaper photographer of a group of
the great people at the Georgian Ter
race.
They smiled acquiescence. They
are very gracious folks, all of them.
"But how?" they asked. "What
\
do you want'.
“Anything.” said th«- photographer.
He is a very humble person, this pic- :
ture than.
There was no argument.
”Ze tu’kee trot.” exclaimed Made- ;
moiselle Lucrezia Bori, with the most i
fascinating accent in the world She i
snapped her fingers and jerked her
shoulders, after the way of the con
ventional turkey trotter. The pho
tographer snapped her quickly.
But there was no need for hurry.
Somebody whistled "Everybody's Do
in' It.” Dink Gilly caught Madame
Rita Fornia, and the two aide-stepped
away. Lenora Sparkes began to sway
to tile tune, and Segurola tripped to
her side. In half a minute everybody
was doing it, really.
Everybody except Antonio Pini-
Corsi, the rotund basso. Pint-Coral
can’t be more than five feet tall, and
there is nobody else of a physique to
fit his Partnerless, he looked dis
consolately at the dancers, and then
moved within the hotel. Those that
watched him saw him descend the
stairs that lead to the basement. For
in the basement there is solace for all
things.
KANSAS CITY, April 26—A mil
lionaire's son, the Rev. Ernest C.
Webb, who forsook motor cars and
the “easy life” the pulpit, preach
ed his first sermon to-day at the
Cleveland Avenue Methodist Church,
South. The Rev. Mr. Webb is a son
of E. T. Webb, of Webb City, one of
Missouri’s wealthiest mine owners
His words were somewhat explana
tory of his action in forsaking
wealth.
“I wart the men in overalls and the
women ir calico to fill this church
every Sunday,” said the young min
ister. "The crying need of our life
to-day i a poor man’s church. 1 will
shed the Prince Albert and preach iri
homespun if it will help.
“Not money, but service is the
greatest thing in this world I would
rather be a tub rustler in a ‘Jack’
mine than a millionaire mine owner
who cares for nothing but hearing
gold jingle.”
Mr. Webb is a graduate of Yale
University.
THIEF PROVES IN COURT
THAT HE IS STARVING
Davies New Head of
Corporation Bureau
Democratic National Committeeman
From Wisconsin Appointed Com
missioner in Commerce Dept.
WASHINGTON, April 26.—The ap
pointment of Joseph Davies. Demo
cratic National Committeeman from
Wisconsin, to be Commissioner of
Corporations of the Commerce D
partment was announced at the
White House to-day. Davies w as on.
of the most prominent Wilson work
ers during the recent campaign.
The Wisconsin man was slated to
be Assistant Secretary of War, but
declined because he desired a r
where his knowledge of corporation
law r would be of service.
Committee, a
South Carolina.
Predicts Resolution’s Passage.
Senator (VGorman said:
I am glad Senator Chamberlain
offered this resolution in the Sen
ate. I believe that after the Sena
tors have studied it they will see
the necessity for action of this sort
and that it vvi
jority.
If we are t
time will
mlnistrat
are indi<
then it '
at once go
trouble and d
altogether ut
ain rests her
Great Brit?
ing, for her
>f
pa«s by a large ma-
b 1‘. massed all tha
sts against our ad-
the canal, as there
that we shall be,
>e better for us to
to the root of the
aw ay with the treaty
m which Great Brit-
proteatsp.
n has no vital inter-
She has lost noth-
rights are as strong
ny other nation, and
ted.
tently violated the
s>r treaty, that was
written into the Hay-
asty, and if upon those
ontinues to protest it
: an well to clear up
biect bv wiping out
as tho
will be
She
Claytor
revived
Paunce
treaties
would
the wT
these treaties entirely.
Doubts Root Interpretation.
Senator Bristow said:
I do not believe the Hay-Paul
fote treaty beers the construe
Senator Root gives it. i do net
lieve it was intqnded that it in
bear that, construction. Thu if
interpretation is correct,.then tl
treaties should be abrogated
PHILADELPHIA. April 26.—When
Charles Miller, of Pittsburg, told
Magistritc Hughes, in the Moyamen
sing Avenue and Dickinson Street,
police station, that hunger had forc
ed him to steal milk and bread from
doorsteps, he was given a chance to
prove this.
"Sit down here and eat what you
I took.” the magistrate ordered. The
man was quick tc obey. In a few
I minutes two bottles of milk and two
loaves of bread had disappeared.
“I hav' satisfied my hunger.” Mil
ter said, addressing the magistrate.
"Now do with me as you will.”
The magistrate not only released
Miller, but gave him money and ob
tained for him a position in a fac
tory.
Builds a Church
All For Himself
Pennsylvanian Erects an Edifice so
That He Can Worship as
He Pleasse.
READING, PA., April 26. A
novel service was held at Topton, this
county, when Ephriam Steffy, sixty-
six. until recently a member of the
United Evangelical Church, who has
erected his own church, held the f.n
mal dedication ceremonies. He calls
the church the House of God. He
built it so he could “serve the Master
with exuberant expression of heart
and soul, according to the dictates of
his conscience."
The church is a neat structure and j
was planned, erected and paid for by
Steffy. Operations wen started last
October, and the finishing touches
were made last week. The cost of
the building including finishings, is
about $3,000.
I am
sition taker
lain. The
Panama C;
rates to be
ships is a *
United Sta
mestic affa
own p<
enco, si
imsi
the
rged
/or of the ro
tor Chamber -
•ation of tut
fixing of the
our coastwise
question. The
control its do-
eems best to it*
ut the interfer-
r threats of any
irth—treaties or
with my machine. I'm going to get
me a man yet.
Macnez looked humbly at the angry
chauffeur, and then moved away. He
did not understand all that was said
to him. but he has unbounded respect
for a man who drives a beautiful au
tomobile.
The chauffeur came out and mount
ed the front seat of the machine, on
guard. He was still muttering. What
was he to grand opera, or grand
opera to him?
WOMEN AND COLLEGE MEN
ON TOPEKA POLICE FORCE
TOPEfCA, KAN. April 26.—Women
and college graduates will be on
Topeka's reorganized police force as
a result of the appointment of Or.
C. M. Sheldon, author of “In His
Steps." to the Civic Service Commis
sion of the city.
"The new patrolmen will rank in
the community with the ministers
the teacher and everyone else wit it
the good of the community at hear..''
declares the noted author-teacher.
'No higher slaries will be paid, hut
the saving in crime ->revention will
more than repay the city for extra
expenses.”
TWO OF NEW CONGRESSMEN j..,
HAVE NOT BEEN SWORN IN
WASHINGTON. April 26.—Two
Congressmen have failed to take their
oaths of office for the special session.
One is (Big Tim) Sullivan, of New
York, and the other Raymond St
phens, of New Hampshire. Ea^h mis
a salary coming to him of $625. whi m
is held up by the Sergeant-at-Arms
of the House of Representatives.
Congressman Sullivan has been
sick, but his friends in Congress from
New York say that he is getting bet
ter. and they expect him here to vote
on the passage of the tariff bill.
Stephens, of New Hampshire, was
elected to the Legislature at the same
time that he was elected to Congress.
He remained at home to assist in put
ting through reform Democratic leg-
• islation. He will be here in two
j weeks.
ggestions
other nation on
no treaties.
U. S. Has Exclusive Rights.
Senator Chamberlain .said he had
prepared a lU't of papers for the pub
lic.. showing the United States had
exclusive rights in Panama before
either the Clayton-Bulwer or the
Hay-Paumefote treaty was executed.
He asserted Great Britain, when thesq
treaties were negotiated, had full
knowledge of these rights.
A meeting of the Interoceaulo
Canals Cnmmittc had been railed for
to-morrow, but it was postponed un
til next Tuesday. Senator Root’s bffl
for a repeal of the. toll exemption
provision is now before the commit
tee.
It was apparent to-day that much
of the support that was mustered in
the last svssion to prevent the change
of the toll exemption provision of
will now be brought to the support
of the plan 'u abrogate treaties that
may be interpreted as giving Great
Britain any ground for protest.
BATTLESHIPS HELD READY
FOR USE AGAINST JAPAN
NN„ April 26.—
tea Government
se for its war-
lmer in con nee -
>an question was
telegram was re-
ephus Daniels,
avy, withdrawing
e of the ships by
a cruise to study
that the sudden
offer means the
kept in readiness
aeldent to the Pa-
r that they will be
the coast immediately.
MOSQUITO CC3T U. S,
MILLIONS EACH YEAR
ST. LOUIS, d pril 26.—Frank B.
Knight and William A. Evans, both
of Chicago, at the National Drainage
Congress recently delivered verbal
broad-id i > at malaria? carriers. The
former m-clared that the economic
loss due to th- mosquito is $170,000,-
600 a /ear that its ex
tinction would increase l&n<$ valuta
by $3,000,600,000.