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Claudia Muzio, the dramatic so
prano who sings the title role in
“Aida"” Wedneaday night, is consid
ered the child of the Metropolitan
Gpera House—for one might say she‘
was born sin it. Her father, Carlo
Muzio, has been connected with the
company for so many years that he
has forgotten the exact number, th-}
tle Vlaudia (she was little Claudia
then, at least) used to have’ the ‘“‘run
of the house,” back stage, dressing
rooms and all, and there are few fa
mous singers of the last twenty years
she does not know intimately. Asl
she grew up and discovered a voice,i
she was given~a bit of instruction
here and (hQ{e hy scores of great art
ists, and a few years ago Papa Muzio
sént ner to Europe for hard s',ud.\‘{
and an opportunily at opera. She
began in the little opera house, ‘wun‘
success, and after a surprisingiy short}
time came “home” (0 the Metropoli- |
tan, where she m\dc her debut in‘
3917%;
Miss Muzio has an <ffer of $2.000 al
night for a season in South America.
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In striking contras' “to the s'eud)"
advance of Claudia Muzie. by dint of
study and practice in smaller opera
_ house, is the remarkable climb of
Rosa Ponselle, whe began with her
sister in- vaudeville, and within a
year made her debuat not only in
grand opefa, but in the world's fore
mosi grand opera—the Metropolitan
An odd thing about it was that it was
“aot Rosa Ponselle, but her elder sis
ter of the pair that came to the For
sSyth two years ago. who went to Wil
liam Thorner for vpice training. Rosa
only went along for {un--but Thor
ner discovered her gqualities as a dra
milic soprano—and you know the
leßl A -
But Atlanwa girls who have visions
of breuking Inwo ;n{:l Metropolitan
overnight musi remember that a de
but is not everything.. With all Miss
Ponselle's heauty of voizz ang ability
in acting, she has many a year of
very hard work before her if she
woiuld becomw a thoiougnly accom
plished first.sopiano of the Metro
politan. So far. she ‘has sung only a,
few roles, and the depandable primai
donna must have at her finger tips)
every line, every noie, every bit ofl
“stage business” of more ti.an a score
of roles. FKor ifistance, Junanpa Gad- |
ski, who was equally at hume in Ger-i
man and Italian opera, could sing at
a moment's notice almost any(hinu‘
from Leonora in “Trovatore” to the
liebestod in “T'ristan una Isolde.” Ca
ruso has in the back of his mind
every phrase of all the great tenor
roles.
FPut ail these will come to Rosa
Ponselle with years apd hard work,
and she says she is ready to pay the
price. And in the meantime she has
something for which many a greatl
_ soprano would exchange all her‘
knowledge—a voice that is as fresh
and soaring as a lark’s. For it is onl‘yl
y in “Faust” that oné regain# by magic |
‘one's lost youth—and it isn’t the so
prano then!
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Hipolito Lazaro, the Rhadames in
this seasons “Aida,” resembles Gio
wAanni Martinelli in something more
than beauty of voice. Both were.
“discovered” in the army.
Martinelli was playing a clarinet
. i@ an Italian army band some years
#BO, when the bandmaster heard him
singing and gave him a bit of teach
ing. There followed hard study, small
Leginnings, a 4 debut in “Ernani” in
Milan and the engagements in Monte
Carol ad Covent Garden, the great
London opera, *
Lazaro was a private in the Span
ish army in the Moroccan campaign
of 4898, with General Weyler in com
mand. It was on the desert, in the
coolness of the evening, that a mu-{
sic-loving stall officer heard cheers
from a 1 group of men, who were shout- !
ing: “Hipolito! Hipolite! Sing again.”
The officer listened from the dark- I
ness and heard a fine, clear tenor rise |
in ll‘o beautiful strains of “Spirito |
Gentjl," from “La Favorita,” one of |
the loveliest of tenor airs. The yuung!
soldier was playing an accompani
ment on his guitas,
When the otficer told Private Laza
ro he had an unusual voice, the sol
dier was amazed,
It was much the same as in Mar
tinelli's case. The fighting over,
Lazaro went to Barcelona, his home,
and began voice study, ‘He had been
a lithographer before he entered the
army, but he abandoned this, went
to Milan and began his life study--
for a ténor mever learns all there is
to learn, though there have been a
few who thought they had. There
was much hard work, opportunities
in various opera houses, then Lon
don. After that, Egypt, South Amer
jea. Cuba and Mexico, which went
wild over his extremely hilf\h notes,
Ogcar Hammerstein heard™ him in
London and pronounced him of the
first class—and Hammerstein has
{.ivkwd several great singers in his
ime,
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4 It will be observed that all of these
singers save Miss Ponselle started in
small opera houses. And there is one
of the reasons why so few American
girls have become great opera sing
ers, Ask any of the Italian stars,
“Your system is all wrong,” they
will tell you, “If there were only
one or two theaters in America, could
a young actor become ‘an Edwin
Booth merely through ambition, or
by training in a school? For a cer
tainty, no. And where is the little
American opera house, to, give its
voung singers a chance? There is
none.
“In Italy, in Germahy, in Austria,
in Spain, there is hardly a fair-sized
city without its opera. In many cases
-Ihe ecity government helps support
it, as your cily perhaps sapports a
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band for the parks in sumemr time,
They think that good music is good
for a people,
“There are no great singers in these
little opera houses. The orchestra
is small, and the scenery is shabby
and the costumes are old and word
out, perhaps. But there are always
veterans who know what good opera
is, A manger who hag a knowledge of
voices. And it is here, that the stu
dent has his first chance. And the
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1160 FEVSPARLE §0 PRSO\ ¢/ OF THE 30U
TEMPERAMENT AND THE SEASON ADORN PARTY
managers of larger opera houses hear
of a fine voice here or there and go
some day to hear it-—-and then there
is a step wpward. It is exactly like
your American basebull—the scauts
of the big leagues are searching out
good young players from the ‘bushes.’
Suppose there were but one baseball
league in America, Where would it
find its players? Could it pick them
ready-made? :
“But, no! You Americans must
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1919
have the best or none. You want
great stars, great orchestras, the most
F‘.pen«ivra of stage settings. But you
will never, never devel p many Amer
fean opera singers until you have a
hiindred small opera companies doing
the best they can and giving the new
comers a chance. There may be gev
eral potential Carusos in America
rhn will never have a chance, for
they can not afford to go to Europe
for a beginning."
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8. H. Venable, the surviving mem
ber of the firm of Venable Bros., own
ers of Stone Mountain, has made the
sum of $459,6562 in the ten years since
the death of his brother, William H.
Venable, it was shown before Attor
ney Arthur Heyman, as special audi
tor, in a hearing on proceedings
brought against Venable by his niece,
Mrs, Walter Roper, which neared its
close Wednesday. This evidence was
produiced to show that Venable's con- |
duct’ of the business has been svu‘—‘
cessful. The hearing before the Jlll—i
ditor was to take evidence on the bill
for a receivership for the business of
Venable Bros., filed some time ago by
Mrs, Roper
Venable also contended that he had
paid all of the debts on the firm, and
had turned over to Mrs. Roper and
her sister, the only children of his
late brother, the sum of SIOO,OOO. He
also made the point that the assets of
the firm on the day that Judge Pen
dleton, in Superior Court, named a
receiver, amounted to $120,478, exclu
sive of the Central Building, formerly
the Temple Court Building, and the
granite quarries at Stone Mountain
and in DeKalb County,
Two of the questions to be deter
mined by the auditor are whether
Samuel H. Venable is entitled to any
salary for his services to the firm, and
whether the law firm of C T. L. C
& J. L. Hopkins, who filed the re
ceivership bill ‘for Mrs. Roper, are
entitled to a fee out of the assets of
Venable Bros. Kach side is contest
ing the claim of the other
Whites and Blacks Clash
In Chicago’s ‘Black Belt’
CHICAGO, April 23.--A riot detail
of 100 policemen are today on duty in
Chicago's black belt on the South
Side to prevent a renewal of hostili
ties between white and negro resi
dents of the section during which one
negro was shot probably fatally and
more than a score of whites and ne
groes were injured last night,
The trouble started when several
negro boys attacked five white voung
sters playing in the street early in
the evening. Parents of the white
boys protested to the negroes and a
score or more fights followed, in
which clubs, bricks and guns were
used freely, ending only when police
reserves were tushed to the scene
and arrested fifteen,
Ineued Dafly and Entered as Second-Class Matter at
T 4 PostofMer at Atlanta Tnder Act of Mareh 3. 1876
Ordinance Needed Here
To Compel Grand Opera
Stars to Arise by Noon
By O. B. KEELER.
One feature of the old days, when
the Atlanta opera season was para
doxically young, should be restored by
a municipal ordinance, inless it can
be arranged in some other way. |
I mean the former disposition to
get up in the morning, any time before
noon being regarded as matutinal,
which used to be shown by the sing
ers. They used to get up some time
before noon, and come down to the
front veranda of the Terrace, and sit
around or hop about and play in the
sunshine, according as the spirit
moved them or remained quiescent.
But there was always something to
see and some singers to talk to ahd
photograph. That sort of thing.
These days they don't get up until
2 bells or thereabout, and then they
are occupied with birdseed or what
ever songbirds train on, and with the
Home Kdition going to press at about
the same time the newspaper men
are in a fine pickle.
They sit around and talk to each
other and the photographers, which is
’an occupation singularly unproductive
of ideas or copy, either.
‘ The City Counefl passes ordinanceg
regulating the selling of standing
room in theaters. I suggest that it
regulate the rising hours of visiting
singers,
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Billy Guard usually saves the day.
Billy's arrival at the Terrace from a
downtownt hotel Wednesday was the
signal for a wave of enthusiasm, near
ly amoufting to a salvo of cheers,
Billy was discovered advancing on
the Terrace by degrees in flannel
trousers and the most dinmpuubloi
flivver that ever was tied together
with string and headed for Camp
Gordon. There wag no doubt as to‘
wherc Billy was alighting. Just in
front of the Terrace the dissoluta
taxi fell to pieces, depositing Billy.
deftly upon the pavement, whence he
rtruggled slowly into port with his
starboard engine practically out of
commission, :
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Pop Glass collared Billy, whose first
topic wag in regard to his bum prop,
which (it seems) had not been dam
aged by the collapse of the flivver
after all, but was alling otherwise.
Billy had been using a singularly
pungent liniment, for which he apolo
gized, adding a word of advice. It
seems the liniment, wether efficacious
or not, is of high voltage when com
bined with too much frequency. Billy's
advice might be compressed into the
single word, “Don't” Thereafter he
discussed the .carcer of Madame
Galli-Curei, the defections of KFrieda
Hempel, the time Caruso could have
been had at 40 pun’ a week, the ad
visability of smoking stogies with
straws through them, if at all, the
peregrinations of Emmy Destinn, the
seating capacity of the Auditorium-
Armory, the Russian soviets, and
other matters, all treated with much
intelligence and great particularity.
Mr. Guard is a wonderful person.
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~ Mr. and Mrs. Paul Althouse ap
peared quite early, for opera people,
and I learned from a wild-eyed pho
tographer that the pretty Mrs. Alte
‘house had a bafMling habit of changing
her appearance between appearances,
80 that Monday she was photographed
five times by the whole corps of
lens-shootérs under the impression
that she was somebody else each time,
. . .
It was just as we were shout de
parting that Madame _:lda walked
out. on the porch and was immedi
ately ranged beside Mr., Guard and
photographed while ostensibly read
ing a paper, which happened to be
right side up--not so usual a thing
in a newspaper picture as you might
imagine.
Baron Ugglas Suddenly
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Taken 11l in a Taxicab
(l‘ International News Service.)
CLEVELAND, OHIO, April 22 --While
Baron Karl Ugglas was speeding In a taxe
jel)y to his apartment in a hotel here
Tuesday afternoon he became dizzy, lost
consclousncss and crumpled to the floor of
the cab, where he was found when the taxi
drew u’n In front of the hotel. At a local
hospital physicians are working on theories
of polsoning. He appeared to be in good
health when he entered the cab He (#
sald to be a relative of-Count Ludwig, for
merly attached to the Swedish embassy at
Washington. He is registered here from
New York.
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BY 0. B. KEELER.
Well, there is one thing 1 cantrim
Cousin Carus’ at, anyway. 1 can beat
him playing golf,
At that, I haven’t demonstrated it
yet. 1 haven't played golf with the
‘world's greatest tenor. But I watched
him do a two-thirds Casey on the
‘nrst tee at Druid Hills Tuesday aft
ernoon, and 1 know I can beat any
body that does that. I mean, he took
two swings at the little ball before
landing on it. The third swing he
hit it, but it rolled only about 30 feet.
Enrico pursued it with true Latin
‘enthusiasm and swung on it again as
‘it lay heipless in the grass and POS
‘nlbly pleading for its little life. I
did not hear it pleading. But Mr,
‘Caruso walloped it again and it stag
gered off into No. 10 fairway i the
effort to escape from further pundsh
ment.
Mr. Caruse also had had enough,
however,
Perry Adair and 1 appreached the
first tee to start a round wiich,
by the way, Perry even shot
'hlmsell’ a+6B; details of which you
man find on the sport page—and
there was a large party on the tee,
Several large parties, in fact. There
was Caruso and Jimmy Willlama,
both large parties. Mrs. Caruso was
there, too, and she is no absolutely
'small party herself. Bignor Antonio
Scott] was there, and Mrs. John E,
Murphy and some others. Jimmy
Willlams had been entertaining the
bunch, and some more, at 'uncheon.
Perry Meets Caruso.
Mr. Willlams presented Perry to
the great tenor, while Mr. Scotti ana
I renewed a perennial acquaintance.
Jimmy desired Caruso to take a punch
at a golf ball. So did Mrs. Caruso,
who further cajoled him with a pet
name, a modification of Enrico into
something like gin rickey.
Mr. Caruso consented and a ball
was duly teed.
Mr. Caruso pretended to be vastly
embarrassed. The disposition of his
hands on the ciub was changed sev
eral times, always with an inquiring
lift of a massive eyebrow at Perry
Adair, Then his feet troubled him.
He altered his stance radically and
with frequency. It was almost as
if he were executing a clog dance.
Then it was his coattails. They
flapped, and he seemed unable to
;amae flapping. He solved the prob
lem by tucking them in—he did, for
a fact. Then he pulled his hat well
}down over his eyes—too far down, I
suspect—and swung ferociously,
| The ball was unmoved. Caruso
slowly withdrew his gaze from the
long, willowy fairway and regarded
the impudent little pellet with a puz
zled air. Then he swung again, spin
ning himself clear around this time.
The ball did not even tremble,
Simultaneously, Mr. Scotti and Mrs,
Caruso drew themselves up very
straight and began singing the “Star
Bpn.n;:led Banner'—oh, long may he
wave!
Aria to Bafl,
Mr. Caruse said something—in Ital
dan. It sounded crisp with a lot of
r-r-ripping R-R-R’s in it. This form
of addressing the ball seemed to have
its effect. Next time he hit it, but
not very far. He went bounding after
it and took another wallop before it
could dodge. This time the niqui
tous guttapercha fled twittering into
the neighboring fairway and conceal
ed Itself in terror. With a magnifi«
cent gesture of trtumph, Caruso drew
himself up, expanded his vast chest,
executed a sabre-salute with the
driver and sang A-a-a-bh-h-h with in
credible volume at an unbelievable
pltch, adding Ha-a-ah-h even louder
and higher. The gallery burst into
frantic applause and in the distance
the Druid Hills peacock feebly es
sayed to rtval those prodigious tones
with its own peculiar utterance,
somewhat like that of a piteousty
ungreased wagon wheel.
<lt was tremendously impresstve, !
Then Mr. Willilams begged Perry
to hit one off the earth, which Perry.
was going to do, anyhow, and the
bullkmam\ylofiutthumon“
the party didn’t see it at all, so he
was forced to respond to an encore,
and hit another one that extracted
delighted Ttalian phrases in tenor and
baritone, and then it was my turn,
and for a wonder I didn’t dub it B
wasn't much of a shot, at that—but
It went farther than al! two of Ca
ruso’s. And it had this advantage
of Perry's—it didn't get away so
€ast they couldn't see it.
Harden Says Nobody
Could Have Won for Hun
(By International News Service.)
PARIS, April 22 (by French Gov
ernment "Wireless).—No one could
have won the war for Germany-—not
even Napoleon, sald Maximilian Har—\
den, fhmous German publieist, in"
analyzing the causes of Germany's
present situation in his newspaper,
The Neéukunft, according to advices
from Zurich Tuesday,
A prudent policy might have led ta
a draw, Herr Harden argued, but no
better result wag possible, ’
The generals and admirals took the
lead and were followed by the Reiehs
tag like “an obedient little dog,” de
clared Herr Harden, adding:
"American intervention, which only
the greatest impudence court bring
about, hastened the cat wtrophe.” ~
Murder Case, 15 Years
.
Old, Puzzles Police
Gwinnett County has a puzzie in the
case of a man brought back from Okla«- o
homa to .mm? trial for the murder of
J. L. Braswell fifteen vears age. No- 3
body is able to {dentify the man hgld .
as, the alleged murderer
Braswell was shot and killed by Henry
Carter, and the authorities had almost
given up hepe of apprehending the
slayer until they got word last woeek
that Carter gas under arvest in Oklgs
hama, Bheriff 12, 8. Ga g went aftor
him, and lodged hia man In the Laws.
renceville jall, But the prisoner insists
that his name is not Henry Cartor, bt
Bill _Carter, and that he ie from "oy
negdey ingtead of Georgia. J. A B 4
well, father of the slain mar ten o W
that’ the man held 18 not ey Oy :
ter, It is sald. ol
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