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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
Cpera 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
tle Claudia (she was little Claudia
then, at least) used to have the “run
of tiie house,” back stage, dressing
rooms and all, and there are few fa
mous singers of the ast twenty years
she does not know intimately. As
she grew up and discovered a voice,
sie was given a bit of instruction
here and there hy scores of great art
ists. and a few years ago Papa Muzio
sent her to Europe for hard study
and an opportunity at opera. EShe
began in the little opera house, won
succeess, and after a surprisingly short
time came “home” (0 the Metropoli
tan, wheire she made her debut in
1817,
Miss Muzio has an offer of $2.600 a
night for a sezson in South America.
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In striking contrast to the steady
advance of Claudia Muzie, by dint of
study and practice In smaller opera
chouse, is ,the remarkable climh of
Rosa Ponselle, whe began with her
sister in vaudevilie, and within a
year made her debut not only in
grand opera, but in the world's fore
most grand opera—the Metropolitan
An odd thing about it was that ‘in 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 Thoraer for voice training. Rosa
oniy went siong for fun-—but Thor
ner discoverad nher gualities as a dra
nuue soprano—and you know the
lest, : ‘
But Atlama girls who have visions
of hreuking mw the Metropolitan
ovemiziht must remember that a de
but is not everything. With all Miss
Ponselle’s beaury of voisa and ability
in acting, she has many & year of
very nard work belove her if she
- woiuld becotne a thorougnly gccom
plished first sopsano of the ™etro
politan. So far, she has sung only a,
few roles, and the depondable prima
donna must have at Ler finger tips
;- every line,\ every note, svery bit of
“stage business” of more trLan a score
of roles For instance, Junanna Gad
ski, who was equally at hume in Ger-}
fnan and Italian opera, could sing at‘
a moment's notice almost anything
from Leonora in ‘“Trovatore” to the
liebestod in ‘l'ristan una Isolde.” (‘u-‘
ruso has in the back of his mind
every phrase of all the great tenor
roles, !
Fut a!l these will come to Rosa
Ponselle with years and hard work,
and she says she is ready to pay the
price. An 4in the meantime she has
something for which many a great‘
soprano would exchange all her‘
knowledge—-a voice that is as fresh
and soaring as a lark's. For it is unlyf
in “Faust" that one regaing by maglci
one's lost youth—and it isn't the so
prano then! |
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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.
Martine!lli was playing a clarinet
in an Italian army bamd 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 engagements in M(mte‘
Caro! ad Covent (Garden, the great
London opera. ‘
Lazaro was a private in the Span
ish army in the Moroccan (*umpuignl
of 1898, with General Weyler in com
* maond. It was on the desert, in thel
coolnes: of the evening, that a mu-‘
sic-loving sia.l ofticer heard cheers
from a group of men, who were shout- i
A ing: “Hipolito' Hipolito! Sing again.”
The officer listengd from the dux‘k-‘
ness and heard o fine, clear tenor rise
in the beautiful strains of “Spirito |
(;cy.“ from “lL.a Favorita,” one of
the’lavelicst of tenor airs, The young
‘Jsoldier was plaving an accompani- |
ment on his guitar l
When he officer told Privaté Laza
ro he had an unusual voice, ('lle 50]-‘
dier was amazed |
It was much the same as in Mzu'-|
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, wentl
. 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. 'l‘hvre‘
wag much hard work, opportunities
in various opera houses, then Lon-‘
don. After that, Fgypt, South Amer
jca. Cuba and Mexico, which went
wild over his extremely high notes,
y 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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1 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 theédters in Ameriea, could
a yvoung 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 ope¥a. In many cases
the city government helps support
it, as your city perhaps™supports 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 worn
out, perhaps. But there are always
veterans who know what good opera
is, & manger who has a knowledge of
voices. And it is here that the stu
dent has his first chance. And the
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LEADTHG NEVSIRELE GG TR '
S \~Au~;,:“gt fif—EM
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 baseball-—the sgeouts
of the big leagues are searching out
good young players from the ‘bushes,’
Suppose there were but one haseball
league in America. Where would it
d 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
rxmpt stars, great orchestras, the most
eaxpensive of stage settings. But you
will never, never deve. p many Amer
fean opera singers until you have a
hundred small opera companies doing
the hest they can and giving the new
comers a chance. There may bhe sev
eral potential Carusos in America
who will never have a chance, for
they can not afford to go to Europe
for a beginning.”
8. H. Venable, the surviving mem
‘ber of the firm of Venable Bros., own
ers of Stone Mountaln, has made the
sum of $459,652 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
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 bill
for a receiversfip for the business of
Venable Bros,, flled some time ago by
Mrs. Roper,
Venable also ('()mvmh‘glh:n he had
paid all of the debts on ®he firm, and
had !ul‘&(;d over to Mrs. Roper and
her sistdr, 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
recelver, amounted tH $120,478, exclu
‘sive of the Central Building, formerly
the Temple Court Building, and the
\gmnitc 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
ealary for his services to the firm, and
whether the law firm of O 2. L. C
& J. L. Hopkins, who filled the re
ceivership bill for Mrs, Roper, are
entitled to a fee out of the assets of
| Venable Bros. Kach side is contest
ilng the claim of the other
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}Whttes 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
“'hi('.’ll{n'fl 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 flve white voung
‘HH‘l‘N playving 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
uged freely, ending only when police
regerves were rushed to the scene
and arrested fifteen.
Issued Dafly and Entered as Second-Class Matter at
tis Postoffies at Atlants T'nder Act of March 3. 1870
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
doxiecally young, should be restored by
o municipal ordinance, unless it can
be arranged in some other way,
1 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 thercabout, and then they
are occupled with birdseed or what
ever songbirds traln on, and with the
Home Kdition going to press at about
the same time the newspaper men
are in a fine pickle,
‘Phey sit around and talk to each
other and the photographers, which is
an oceupation singularly unproductive
of ideas or copy, either,
The City Council passes ordinances
regulating the selling of standing
room in theaters. [ suggest that it
regulate the rising hours-of visiting
singers.,
S .
Billy Guard usually saves the day.
Billy's arrival at the Terrace from a
downtown hotel Wednenday was the
signal for a wave of enthusiasm, near
ly amounting to a salvo of cheers,
Billy was digcovered advancing on
the Terrace by degrees in flannel
tfl;punern and the most disreputable
lvver that gver 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 dissolite
taxi fell to pleces, depositing Bily
deftly upon the pavement, whence he
struggled slowly into port with his
starboard engine practically out of
commission.
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Pop Glass collared Billy, whose frst
topic wag in regurd 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
glzed, 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-Curci, the defections of Frieda
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,
e
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Althouse ap
peared quite early, for opera people,
and | learned from a wild-eyed pho
tographer that the pretty Mrs. Alte
house had a baflling habit of changing
her appearance between appearances,
#0 that Monday she was photographed
five times by the whole corps of
lens-shooters under the impression
that she was somebody else cach time,
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It was just as we were about de
parting that Madame Alda whlked
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
Taken 11l in a Taxicab
(By International News Service.)
CLEVELAND, OHIO, Aprfl 22.—While
Baron Karl Ugglas was speeding In a tax
feab 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 loeal
hospital physicisns are working on theories
of polsoning. He appeared to be In good
health when he entered the eab., He s
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 I cantrim
‘Consln Carus’ at, anyway. I 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 1 watched
him do a two-thirds Cascy on the
iflrst tee at Druid Hills Tuesday aft- J
ernoon, and I know I can beat any
‘body that does that. I mean, he took
two swings at the Tittle 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 pos
sibly pleading for its littte life. I
did not hear it pleading. But Mr.
Caruso walloped it again and it stag
gered off into No. 10 fairway in the
effort to escape from further punish
ment.
Mr. Caruso also had had emough,
‘however,
~ Perry Adair and I approached the
first tee to start a round-—in which,
by the way, Perry eventmally shot
himselt a 63; dotails of which you -
man find on thé 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 absolately
small party herself. Signor Antonio
Scotti was there, and Mrs. John E.
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. Caruso,
who further ecajoled 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 club was changed sev
eral times, always with an inquiring
lift of a massive eyebrow at Perry |
Adair, Then his feet troubled him.
He aitered his stance radically and
with/ frequency. It was almost as
if heé 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 feroclously,
The ball was unmoved. Caruso
slowly withdrew his gaze from the
long, willowy fairway and regarded
the impudent little pellet with & 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 -
Spangled Banner”-—oh, long may he
wave!
Aria to Bafl.
Mr. Caruso said something—in Ital
fan. 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 intqui
tous guttapercha fled twittering into
‘the neighboring fairway and conoead -
ed itself in terror. With a magnifi
cent gesture of triumph, Caruso dresw
‘himself up, expanded his vast chest,
executed a sabre-salute with the
driver and sang A-a-a~h-b-h with n
credible volume at an unbelievable
pitch, adding Ha-a-ah-h ewen louder
and higher. The gallery burst into
frantic applause and in the distance
the Druid Hills peacock fecbly es
sayed tlo rival those prodigious tomes
with lits own peculiar utterance,
somewhat like that of a piteously
ungreased wagon wheel.
It was tremendously tmpressive.
Then Mr. Williams begged Perry
to hit one off the earth, which Perry
was going to do, anyhow, and the
ball got away so fast that most of
the party didn’'t see it at all, so he
was forced to respond to an encore,
and hit another one that extragted
delighted Ttallan phrases in tenor and
baritone, and then it was my turn,
and for a wonder I didn’t dub it. Tt
wasn't much of a shot, at that—but
it went farther than all two of Ca
ruso's. And it had this advantage
of Perry's—it didn’'t get away ‘so
€ast they couldnm’t see it. 5
Harden Says Nobody
Could Have Won for Hun
(By International News Service,)
PARIS, April 22 (by French Govy
ernment Wireless) —No one could
have won the war for Germany-—not
even Napoleon, sald Maximilian Har
den, famous German publicist, in
analyzing the causes of Germany's
present situation in his newspaper,
The Neukunft, according to ‘advices
from Zurich Tuesday,
A prudent policy might have led to
a draw, Herr Harden argued, but no
better result was possible,
The generals and admirals took the
leand and were followed by the Reichs
tag like “an obedient little dog,” de
clared Herr Harden, adding:
“American Intervention, which only
the greatest impudence court bring
about, hastened the catastrophe.”
Murder Case, 15 Years
.
Old, Puzzles Police
Gwinnett County has a puzzle in the
case of A man brought back from Okla
homa to dtand trial for the murder of
J. L. Braswell fifteen years ago. No
body is able to tdentify the man held
as the alleged murdever
Braswell was shot and killed by Henry
Carter, and the authorities had almost
given up’ hope of apprehending the
slayer until they got word last weak
that Carter gas under nrrest in Okla
homa. BSheriff K. 8. Gayor went aftes
him, and lodged his man in the Law-:
renceville jail. But the prisoner insists
that his name iz not Henry Carter, hit
Bill Carter, and that he is from ‘Tei.
nessee instead of Ceorgia JOAD Bria
well, father of the siabn man a'lse =~ e
that the man held 8 not Henry Cars
ter, it is said 4 » i Getal e
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