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VOL. XVII
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
tle 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 Europe for hard study
and an opportunity at opera. She
began in the little opera house, won
success, and afters.a surprisingly short
time came “home” (o the Metropoli
tan, where she made her debut in
1911, 3
Miss Muzio has an offer of $2,000"a
night for a season in South America.
. . .
In striking contrast to the steady
advance of Claudia Muzio, 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
yvear 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 it was
not Rosa Pohselle, 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
leßt,
But Atlanta girls who have visions
of breaking into the Metropolitan
evernight 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 becom: a thoroughly accom
plished first soprano of the Metro
politan. So far, she has sung only a
few roles, and the dependable prima
donnas must have at her finger tips
every line, every note, every bit of
“stage business” of more tha%a score
of roles. For instanee, Johanna Gad
ski, who was equally at home in Ger
man and Italian opera, could sing at
a moment’s notice almost anything
from Leonora in ‘“‘Trovatore” to the
liebestod in “Tristan una Isolde.” Ca
ruso has in the back of his mind
every phrase of all the great tenor
roles.
Eut 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 her
knowledge—a voice that is as fresh
and soaring as a lark’s. For it is only
in “Faust” that one regaing by magic
one's lost youth—and it isn't the so
prano then! 5
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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.
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 engagements in Monte
Carol ad Covent Garden, the great
lL.ondon opera.
Lazaro was a private in 'the Span
ish army in the Moroccan campaign
of 1898, with General Weyler in com
mand. It was on the desert, in the
coolness of the evening, that a mu
sic-loving staff officer heard cheers
from a group of men, who were shout
ing: “Hipolito! Hipolito! Sing again.”
The officer listened from the dark
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 young
soldier was playing an accompani
ment on his ‘guitar,
When the oftficer 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 dtars.
“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
yvoung singers a chance? There s
none,
“In Italy, in Germainy, in Austria,
in Spain, there is hardly a fair-sized
city without its opera. In many cases
the city government helps support
it. as your city marhaps supports a
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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 zcénery is ahab{:y
and the costumes are old and worn
out, perhaps. But there are alwavs
veterans who know what good opera
is, a manger who hus a knowledge of
voices. And it is here that the stu-’
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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 players from the ‘bushes.’
Suppose there were but one baseball
league in America. Where would it
find ite players? Could it pick them
ready-made ?
“But, ne! You Americans must
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1919
have the best or none. You want
great stars, great orchestras, the most
expens<ive of stage nehtngn. But you
will never, never deve. p many Amer
ican opera singers until you have a
hundred small opera companies doing
the bhest they can and giving the new
fecomers 4 chance. There may be sev-’
eral potential Carusos in America
who will never have a chance, for
they can not afford to go to KEurope
llor a beginning.”
8. 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 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 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. Hopking, who filed the re
ceivership bill for Mrs. Roper, are
entitled to a fee out of the assets of
Venable Bros. Each side is contest
ing the claim of the other
.
Whites and Blacks Clash
.
In Chicago’s ‘Black Belt’
CHICAGO, Apri] 23.—# .riot detail
of 100 policemen are today on duty in
C'hicago's black belt on the South
Bide 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 fqllowed, in
which elubs, bricks and guns were
used freely, ending only when police
reserves were rushed to the scene
and arrested fifteex,
Issued Dafly and Entered as Second-Ciass Matter at
4 PostoMee at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1879
£ BN gff-f‘..'_j;:_-;,
AN AN
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
a 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 ghown 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
mbved 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 birfiseed or what
ever songbirds traln 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. 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
downtown hotel Wedneday was the
signal 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 was 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 pivement, whence he
struggled slowly fnto port with his
starboard engine practically out of
commission.
- . .
Pop Glasg collared Bilky, whose fitst
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 Npiment, 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 Frieda
Hempel, the time Caruso could have
been had at 40 pun’ a week, the ad
visability of smoking stogics 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,
o s
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 bafMling 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 each time,
. . .
It was just as we were about de
parting that Madame Alda walked
out on the porch and was immedi
ately ranged ht-uif{]e Mr. Guard and
photographed while ostersibly read
ing a paper, which happened to be
right side up—not so usual a thing
in a newspaper picture gs you might
imagine. i |
Baron Ugglas Suddenly
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Taken 11l in a Taxicab
(B; International News Service.)
CLEVELAND,” OHIO, April 22.-~While
Baron Karl Ugglas was n[»-mlxn{‘ in a tax
feab to his apartment in a hotel here
Tuesdny afterpoon he became dizzy, lost
consciousness and crumpled to the floor of
the cab, where e was found when the taxi
drew up in front of the hotel, At a local
hospital physiciang are working on theories
of poisoning. He appeared to be In good
health when he ontered the eab. He s
#iid to be a relative of Count Ludwig, fol:\
merly attached to the SBwedish embassy at
Washington. He s registered hqre from
New York. i \
'SECONDNEWS!
[ SECTION |
BY O. B. KEELER.
Well, there is one thing I 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
first tee at Druld Hills Tuesday aft
ernoon, and I know 1 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 pursugd it with true Latin
enthusiasm and swung on it again as
it lay helpless in the grass and pos
sibly 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 in the
effort to escape from further punish
ment.
Mr. Caruso also had had enough,
however.
Perry Adair and 1 approached the
first tee to start a round—in which,
by the way, Perry eventually shot
hifnself a 68; details of which you
man find on the sport page—and
lthvrn‘ wias a large party on the tee.
Several large parties, in fact. There
was Caruso and Jimmy Williams
'both large parties. Mrs. Caruso was
‘there, too, and she is no absolutely
| 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 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 conserited 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 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, 1
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 “Stap
Spangled Banner”—oh, long may he
wave!
Aria to Ball.
Mr. Caruso said something—in ITtal
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. Noxt time he hit it, but
not very far. He went bounding after
it and took another wallop before it
could dodge. This time the iniqui
tous guttapercha fled twittering into
the neighboring fairway and conceal
ed itself in terror. With a magnifi
cent gesture of triumph, Caruso drew
himself up, expanded his vast chest
executed a sabre-salute with the
driver and sang A-a-a-h-h-h with in
credible volume at an unbelievable
pitch, 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 rival those prodigious tones
with its own peculiar utterance,
somewhat like that of a piteously
ungreased wagon wheel,
It was tremendously impresstve,
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 forded to respond to an encore
and hit another one that extracted
delighted Itallan phrases in tenor and
baritone, and then it was my turn.
and for a wonder I didn’t dub it. [t
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
fast 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 conld
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
‘b(-nv»r result wag ?nmihle. =
The generals and admirals took the
!lnud and were followed by the Reichs
tag like “an obedient little dog,” de=
clared Herr Harden, adding: 54
"American intervention, which only
the greatest impudence court hflnfi%
about, hastonqd the catastrophe.” ;;
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Murder Case, 15 Years .
Old, Puzzles Police
Gwinnett County has a puzzle in the
case of a man brought hgek from Okl e
homa to stand trial for the murdes ,of
J. L. Braswell fifteen years dgo. No=
body is able to identify the, man h
ag the alleged murderer, s
Braswell was shot and killed by Hem¥
Carter, and the uulhnr(”m‘hadyul
given up hope of apprehending the
slgyer until they got word last 7,
that Carter was under arrest in Oklgss
homa. Sherif 12, 8. Gaer went asses
him, and lodged his man in the [ Yoy
rencevile jail. But the prisoner inaists’
that his name iz not Henry Carter, bt
Bill Carter, and that he s frem Tens
negsee Instead of Georgia. 1, A\, Bruge
well, father of ‘the slain man nleo sta M
that the man held is not Héscy 0 58
ter, it is sald. vtk -
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