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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. SHE AND KEMP CONGENIAL IIRTODI 1: lui S I wit dd[]P| 0 Cfl J I r n; | $ ffc J 1 1 *7* i !oi t lull 1 j n ,i n„.u Cl ai r acts oi i j • inv L n Be Severed -ongress culties With Utopian, Says She Is Satisfied. 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.