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- VOL. XVII
(laudia 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 hy scores of great art
ists, and a few years ago Papa Muszio
sent her to Europe 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
oy,
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 Ponsella, whe began witk her
sister in vaudeville, 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 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
lest.
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 voisce 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 prima
donna must have at her finger tips
every line, every note, every bit of
“stage business” of more than a score
of roles. For instance, Jonanna 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. ‘
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 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! /
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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 clarineti
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 Munte‘
Carol ad Covent Garden, the great
L.ondon opera. - \
Lazaro was a private in the Span-\
ish army in the Moroccan campaign |
of 1898, with General Weyler in com-‘
mand. Nt 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: “Hipolito! Hipolito! Sing ag:xin."‘
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 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 lL.on
don. After that, Egypt, South Amer
jca Cuba and Mexien, which went
wil® 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 ogly
one or two theaters in America, vn&d
a young actor become an Edwin
PBooth merely through ambition, or
by training in a school? TFor 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
it, as your city marhaps supports l]
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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, péerhaps. But there are always
veterans who know what good gpera
is, a manger who'has a knowled%e of
voices. And it is here that the stu
dent has his first chance. And the
- 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 yvoung players from the ‘bushes.’
Suppose there were bhut one baseball |
league in America. Where would it
find it players? Could it plek them!
ready-made?
“But, ne! You Americans nwi
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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
fcan opera singers until you have a
hundred small opera companies doing
the best they can and giving the new
lcomers a chance. There may be sev
{eral potential Curusos in Ameriea
!whn will never have a chance, for
they can not afford to go to Kurope
ilor 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 $459,652 in the ten years since
ithe death of his brother, William H.
{ Venable, it was shown before Attor
iney Arthur Heyman, as special audi
-4[o!‘, 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 husiness 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 )IU'UH'H. 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 to $120,478, exclu
sive of the Central Building, formerly
the Temp!e 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 asscts of
| Venable Bros. ach side is contest-|
ilng the claim of the other |
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| 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 |ll):~ll”<‘
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 sti%ted when several
negro boys attacked five white young- }
sters playing in the street early in!
the evening. Parents of the \\hmt‘
|hn).~x protested to the negroes and .1;
score or more fights followed, in|
lwhn-h c¢lubs, bricks and guns wm'n‘
used freely, ending only when police
reserves were rushed to the scene
and arrested fifteer,
Insued Dafly and Entered as Second-Class Matter at
4 PostoMee at Atlanta Tnder Act of March 3, 1879
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 paras
doxically young, should be restored by
a municipal ordinance, unless 1t 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 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 Council passes ordinanceg
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 duy,‘
Billy’'s arrival at the Terrace from a
downtown hotel Wednesday was the
slgnal for a wave of enthuslasm, 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 (3ump;
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 pavement, whence he‘
‘struggled slowly fnto 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-Clurel, 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.
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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 baffling habit of changing
her nppearance between appearances,
80 that Monday she was photographed
flve times by the whole corps of
lens-shooters under the impression
that she was somebody else cach 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 read
ing . 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
(By International News Service.)
CLEVELAND, OHIO, April 22.« While
Baron Karl Ugglas was speeding in o tax
icab 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 physicians are working on theories
of poisoning. He appeared to be In good
health when he entered the eab. He is
sald to be a relative of Count Ludwig, for
merly attached to the Swedish embassy at
Washington. He |8 registered here from
New York.
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BY 0. B. KEELER.
Well, there is one thing I cantrim
Cousin Carus’ at, anyway. I can beat
}mm playing golf.
At that, T 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 Druid Hills Tuesday aft
ernoon, and I 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.
‘Enrim pursued it with true Latin
lenthu.~‘|.u~'m 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
’gerell off into No. 10 fairway in the
‘effort to escape from further punish
'ment.
Mr. Caruso also had bad enough,
however,
’ Perry Adair and 1 approached the
first tee to start a round—in which,
by the way, Perry eventually shot
|himselr 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 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 Pewry 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 conseénted 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 rrpqu{nc_v It was almost as
if he were @éxecuting 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. Caruse
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
Spangled Banner"-oh, long may he
wave!
Aria to Ball. )
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 hounding after
it and took another wallop before" it
could dodge. This time the inigui
tous guttapercha flad twittering into
the neighboring fairway and conceal
ed itself in terror. With a magnifi
cent gesture of triumph, Carusq drew
himself up, expanded his vast chest.
eéxecuted 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 impressive.
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 gdidn’t see it at all, s 0 he
was forced to respond to an encore
and hit another one that extracted
delighted Italian phrases in tenor and
baritone, and then it was my turn.
and for a wonder I didn’t dub it. It
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—lt didn't rget 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 ong 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 newspuaper,
| The Neukunft, according to advices
|from Zurich Tuesday.
| A prudent policy might have led to
a draw, Herr Harden argued, but no
better result wag ‘rnnlhlo. ‘
The generals and admirals took the
lead and were followed by the Reicha
tag like “an obedient little dog," de~
clared Herr Harden, adding: ,
“American intervention, which only
the greatest impudence court bhring
about, hastened the catastrophe.’
Murder Case, 15 Years
Old, Puzzles Police
Gwinnett County has a puzzle in M
cage of a man brought back frnm.O%
homa to stand trial for the murder )
J. 1. Braswell fifteen years ago. No=
body is able to identify the.man held
as the alleged murderer, V.
Braswell was shot and killed by Hent y
.l‘;n'lt-r. and the authorities had alme it
glven up hope of apprehending the
lyluyur until they got word last weel
that Carter was under arrest in Oklns
homa. Sherill . S. Ga:wfer went nfter
I him, and lodged his man in the Laws
‘.-.-nravl?’n jail. But the prisoner insists
‘n-;n his name {s not Henry Carter, bus
Bill Carter, and that he is from
i,,.-"n» instead of Georgin. J. A Bse
well, father of the sluin niin. nlso statis
that the man held s not Hesy (588
‘xer. it s sald, s
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