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VOL. XVil
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Claudia Muzio, the dramatic so
prano who sings the title role in
“Aida” Wednesday night, is consid
ered the child of the Metropolitan
Opera House—for one might say she
was born in it. Her father, Carlo
Muzio, has been connected with the
company for so many years that he
has forgotten the exact number. Lit
tie-Claudia (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. As
she grew up and discovered a voice,
she was given a bit of instruction
here and there by scores of great art
ists, and a few years ago Papa Muzio
sent her to BEurope for hard study
and an opportunity at opera. She
‘began in the little opera house, won
success, and after a surprisingly short
time came.“home” to the Metropoli
tan, where she made her debut in
1917, i
Miss Muzio has an offer of $2,000 a
night for a season ineSouth America.
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In striking contrast to the steady
advance of Claudia Muzio, by dint of‘
study and practice in smaller opera
house, is the remarkable climb ot‘
Rosa Ponselle, whe began with her
sister in vamdeville, and within a
vear made her debut not only in|
grand opera, but in the wotld's fore
most grand opera—the Metropolitan
An odd thing about it was that it was
not Rosa Ponselle, but her elder sis
ter of the pair that came to the For
syth two years ago. who went to Wil
liam Thorner for voice training. Rosa
only went along for fun—but Thor
ner discovered her qualities as a dra
matic soprano—and you know the
rest,
But Atlanta girls who have visions
of breaking into the Metropolitan
overnight must remember that a de
but is not everything. With all Miss
Ponselle's beauty of voice and ability
in acting, she has many a year of
very hard work before her if she
would become a thoroughly accom
plished first soprano of the Metro-|
politan. So far, she has sung only a,
few roles, and the dependable pnmal
donna must have at her finger tips|
every line, every note, every bit of
“stage business’” of more trian a score
of roles. For instance, Jonanna Gad
ski, who was equally at hume in Ger«i
man and Italian opera, could sing at
a moment's notice almost anything
from Leonora in “Trovatore” to the
liebestod in “‘Tristan una lsolde.” Ca
ruso has in the back of his mind
every phrase of all the great tenor
roles.
Fut all these will come to Rosa
Ponselle with years and hard work,
and she says she is ready to pay the
price. And in the meantime she has
something for which many a great|
soprano would exchange all heri
knowledge—a voice ghat is as fresh
and soaring as a lark’s. For it is (mlyl
in “Faust” that one regaing by magici
one's lost youth—and it isn’t the so
prano then! l
. . .
Hipolito Lazaro, the Rhadames in
this season's “Aida,” resembles Gio
vanni Martinelli in something more
than beauty of voice. Both were
“discovered” in the army.
Martinelli was playing a clarinet
in an Italian army band some years
ago, when the bandmaster heard him
singing and gave him a bit of teach
ing. There followed hard study, small
beginnings, a debut in “Ernani” in
Milan, and the gngagements in Monte
Carol ad Covent Garden, the great
l.ondon opera. ]
l.azaro was a private in the Sp.m-;
ish army in the Moroccan vumlmu.'n;
of 1898, with General Weyler in ('nm-’
mand. It was on the desert, in the
coolness of the evening, that a mu-]
gic-loving staff officer heard cheers
from a group of men, who were shout- !
ing: “Hipolite! Hipolite! Sing again.”
The officer listened from the dal'k-l
ness and heard a fine, clear tenor rise |
in the beautiful strains of “Spirito |
Gentil,” from “La Favorita,” one of |
the loveliest of tenor airs. The ynungl
soldier was playing an accompani
ment on his guitar.
When the officer 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 tenor never 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
jca Cuba and Mexico, which went
wild over his extremely high notes.
Oscar Hammerstein heard him in
London and pronounced him of the
first class—and Hammerstein has
picked several great singers in his
time.
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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
young singers a chance? There is
none
“In Italy, in Germany, in Austria,
in Spain, there is hardly a fair-sized
city without its opera. In many cases
the city government helps support
i, as your city 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 orthestra
is small, and the scenery is shabby
and the costumes are old and worn
out, perhaps. But there are always
veterans who know what good opera
is, a manger who hag a knowledge of
voices, An?.it is here that the gtu
dent has hls first chance. And the
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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 upward., It is exactly like
your American baseball—the scouts
of the big leagues are searching out
good young playvers from the ‘bushes.’
Suppose there were but one baseball
league in America. Where would it
find its players? Could it pick them
ready-made?
“ut, no! You Americans must
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1919
have the best or none. You want
great stars, great orchestras, the most
expensive of stage settings. But you
will never, never deve. p many Amer
ican opera singers until you have a
hundred small opera companies doing
the best they can and giving the new
comers a chance. There may be sev
eral potential Carusos in America
who will never have a chance, for
they can not afford to go to Europe
for a beginning.”
S. H. Venable, the surviving mem
ber of the firm of Venable Bros., own
ers of Stone Mountain, has made the
sum of $459.652 in the ten years since
the death of his brother, William H
Venable, it was shown hefore 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
produced to show that Venable's con
duct of the business has been suc
cessful. The hearing before the au
ditor was to take evidence on the bhill
for a receivership for the business of
Venable Bros., filed some time uén 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 18 entitled to any
galary 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
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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 young
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 clibs, bricks anmid guns were
used freely, ending only when police
reserves were rushed to the scene
and arrested fifteen,
Issued Daily and Entered as Second-Ciass Matter at
& Postofice at Atlants 'nder Act of March 3, 1876
Ordinance Needed Here
To Compel Grand Opera
Stars to Arise by Noon
By 0. B. KEELER.
One feature of the old days, when
the Atlanta opera season was para
doxically young, should be restored by
& municipal ordinance, unless 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 and
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 songhirds train on, and with the
Home Edition 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 Council passes ordinances
regulating the selling of standing
room in theaters. 1 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
downtown hotel Wednesday was the
signul for a wave of enthusiasm, near
ly amounting to a salvo of cheers.
Billy was discovered advancing on
the Terrace by degrees in flannel
trousers and the most disreputable
flivver that ever was tied together
with string and headed for Camp
Gordon. There wag no doubt as to
where Billy was alighting. Just in
front of the Terrace the dissolute
taxi fell to pleces, depositing Billy
deftly upon the piavement, whence he
struggled slowly into port with his
starboard engine practically out of
commission.
. A .
Pop Glass collared Billy, whose first
tople wag in regard to his bum prop,
which (it seems) bad 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 career of Madame]
Galli-Curei, the defections of Frieda
Hempel, the time Caruso could have
been had at 40 pun’ a week, the ud-‘
visability of smoking stogies with
straws through them, if at all, the‘
peregrinations of Kmmy 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 baMing habit of changing
her appearance bhetween appearances,
#0 that Monday she was photographed
five times by the whole corps of
lens-shooters under the impression
that she was somebody else each time,
.- . ‘
It was just as we were about de
parting that Madame Alda walked
out on the porch and was immedi
ately ranged beside Mr, Guard and‘
photographed while ostensibly flmd-‘
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
.
Taken 11l in a Taxicab
(By International News Service.) |
CLEVELAND, OHIO, April 22— While
Baron Karl Ugglas was n{mudml In a tax
lcab to his apartment in a hotel here
Tuesday afternoon he became dizzy, lost
consciousness and erumpled to the floor of |
the cab, where he was found when the taxi
drew up in front of the hotel, At a local |
hospital phyricinns are working on th'nrhm‘
lur poisoning. He appeared to be in xmul‘
health when he entered the cab He 18
#aid to be » relative of Count Ludwig, for
meriy attached to the Swodish embassy at
Washington, He |8 registered re from
New York, . ’ ‘
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BY O. B. KEELER.
Well, there is one thing [ cantrim
Cousin Carug’ at, anyway. I can beat
him playing golf.
At that, I haven't demonstrated &
yet. 1 haven't played golf with the
world’s greatest tenor. But I watched
him do a two-thirds Casey on the
first tee at Druid Hills Tuesday afte
ernoon, and I know 1 can beat anye
body that does that. [ 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 helpless in the grass and pPos~
sibly pleading for its little life. I
did not hear it pleading. But Mg
Caruso walloped it again and it stag=
gered off into No. 10 fairway in the
effort to escape from further punishe
ment,
Mr. Caruso also had had enoughy
however
Perry Adair and 1 approached the
first tee to start a round—in whichy
by the way, Perry eventually shot
himself a 68; 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. Signor Antonio
Scotti was there, and Mrs. John H,
Murphy and some others. Jimmy
Williams had been entertaining the
bunch, and some more, at luncheon.
Perry Meets Caruso.
Mr. Williams presented Perry to
the great tenor, while Mr. Scotti and
I renewed a perennial acquaintance.
Jimmy desired Caruso to take a punch
at a golf ball. So did Mrs. Caruse,
who further cajoled him with a pet
name, a modification of Enrico inte
something like gin rickey.
Mr. Caruso consented and a ball
was duly teed. Y
Mr. Caruso pretended to be vastly
embarrassed. The disposition of his
hands on the club 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
abide 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, spine
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
Spangled Banner”-—oh, long may he
wave!
Aria to Ball.
Mr. Caruso said something—in Ttale
ian. It sounded ecrisp with a lotas
r-r-ripping R-R-R's in it. This fi !
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 in 2
tous guttapercha fled twittering :
the neighboring fairway and con
ed itself in terror. With a m i
cent gesture of triumph, Caruso GM
himself up, expanded his vast chest,
executed a sabre-salute with fi
driver and sang A-a-a-h-h-h with ‘
credible volume at an unbelievable
pitch, adding Ha-a-ah-h even louder
and higher. The gallery burst :
frantic applause and in the dis !
the Druid Hills peacock feebly 3
sayed to rival those prodigious k
with its own peculiar utterance,
somewhat like that of a piteously
ungreased wagon wheel, i
SR EE CCVNG WS NS ST Y
; It was tremendously impressive,
Then Mr. Williams begged Perry
to hit one off the earth, which Perry
was going to do, anyhow, and |
ball got away so fast that M‘aj
the party didn't see it at all, so he
was forced to respond to an en ;
and hit another one that ext| ]
delighted Italian phrases in tenor and
baritone, and then it was my turn,
and for a wonder I didn't dub it
}wasn't much of a shot, at that !
it went farther than all two of Ca=
ruso’s. And it had this advantage
of Perry’s—it didn’t get away 50
if,.m they couldn’t see it, <
Harden Says Nobody
Could Have Won for Hun
(By International News Service,)
PARIS, April 22 (by French )
ernment Wireless) -—-No one could
have won the war for Germany-—nog
even Napoleon, said Maximilian H -
den, famous German publicist, in
analyzing the causes of German ,
present situation in his newspa ;
"l‘lu- Neukunft, according to ad :
from Zurich Tuesday. 3
[ A prudent policy might have led to
a draw, Herr Harden argued, but no
'better result wag ?nnmhle. 2
The generals and admirals took the
lead and were followed by the Reicha
tag like “an obedlent little dog,” de«
clared Herr Harden, adding: a
“American intervention, which only
the greatest impudence court bring
about, hastened the catastrophe.” X
e ——————— 5
Murder Case, 15 Years
Old, Puzzles Pollg.
Gwinnett County has a puzzie in the
case of a man brought back from Okla=
homa to stand trial for the murder of
J. L. Braswell fifteen vears ago. Ng
body 1s able to identify the man he
as the alleged murderer e
’ Braswell was shot and killed by Henry
Carter, and the authorities hed nllmgl
‘gi\'t"l up hope of apprehending the
slayer until they got word last weelk
that Carter was under arrest in Oklge
homa. Sheriif K. 8. Gager went aftar
‘him, and lodged his man in the Laws
renceville fail. But the prisoner IM‘"Q
that hig name is not Henry Carter,
Bill Carter, and that he s from Temns
nessee instead of Georgia . A, Brash
well father of the glain man, also stat i
that the man held is not Hengy Cars
ter, it I 8 sald, i
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