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VOL. XVII
(Mlaudia 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 after a surprisingly short
time came “home” to the Metropoli
tan, where she made her debut in
1917,
Miss Muzio has an offer of $2,000 a
night for a season in South America.
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In striking contrast to the steady
advance of Claudia Muzio, by @int of
study and practice in smaller opera
house, is the remarkable climb of
Rosa Ponselle, whe began with her
sister in vaudeville, amd 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
mat#® soprano—and you know the
leßt.
«iut Atlanta girs 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 enly a,
few roles, and the dependable prima |
aonna must have at her finger tips
every line, every note, every bit of
“stage business” of more than a score
of roles. For instance, Juhanna 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 regains by magic |
one's lost youth-—and it isn’t the so
prano then!
. . .
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
London opera. |
Lazaro was a private in the Span
ish army in the Moroccan campaign
of 1898, with GGeneral Weyler in com
mand. It was on the desert, in lhe‘
coolness of the evening, that a mu
sic-loving stats officer heard ('h(-erui
from a group of men, who were shout- 1
ing: “Hipolito! HMipolito! Sing again.”
The officer listened from the dzn'k-l
ness and heard a fine, clear tenor rise
in the beautiful strains of “Spirito
Gentil,” from “La Favorita,” one of |
\he loveliest of tenor airs. The young |
soldier was playing an accompanti- '
ment on his guitar, ,
When the officer told Private Laza- |
ro he had an unusual voice, the sul-l
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 15!
to learn, though there have been a |
few who thought they had There |
was much hard work, u]»;nn‘tllnl!lfis‘
in various opera houses, then lmn~l
don. After that, Egypt, South Amer
jea Cuba and Mexico, which went
wild over®his extremely high notes.
Ogcar Hamperstein heard him in
London and pronounced him of the
first class—and Hammerstein h;m‘
picked several great singers in his
time
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It will be ohserved 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 bhecome 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 I 8
none
“In Italy, in Germany, in Austria,
n Spain, there is hardly a fTair-sized
eity without its opera. In many cases
the ecity 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, a manger who has a knowledge of
voices, And it is here that the stu
dent has his first chance. And the
TEMPERAMENT AND THE SEASON ADORN PARTY
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‘managr-rs of larger opera houses hear |
of a fine voice here or there and go
some day te 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 voung players from the ‘bushes’
Suppose there were but gne baseball
league in America, “Where would it
find its plavers? Could it pick them
ready-made ?
~ “But, no! You Americans must
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ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1919
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have the best or none, You want
great stars, great orchestras, the most
expensive of stage settings. But you
will nhever, never deve. p many Amer
ican opera singers until you have a
hundred small opera companies doing
the hest they can and giving the new
comers # chance. There may be sev
eral potential Carusos in Ameriea
who will never have a chance, for
they can not afford to go to Kurope
for a beginning.”
8. H. Venable, the surviving mem
‘ber of the firm of Vengble 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 aundi
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
duect 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 busineus 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 $100,000., 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
‘minfid by the auditor are whether
' Samuel H. Venable is entitled to any
salary for his services to the firm, and
‘W}N'lhl‘l' the law firm of C T., L, C.
& J. L. Hopkins, who flled the re
celvership bill for Mrs. Roper, are
entitled to a fee out of the assets of
Venable Bros. RFach side is contest-
Ing the claim of the other
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Whites and Blacks Clash
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i In Chicago’s ‘Black Bell’
| CHICAGO, April 23 A riot detail
- of 100 policemen are today on duty in
(*hicago'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
}nn-xzrn was shot probably fatally and
more than a score of whites and ne
groes were injured last night
The trouble started when sevefal
negro boys attacked five white voung
sters playing in the street early in
the evening Parents of the white
‘hu)s protested to the negroes and a
score or more fizghts followed, in
}Whh‘h clube, bricks and guns were
used freely, ending only when police
reserves were rushed to the scene
and arremed fifteen,
Issued Dafly and Entered as Second-Ciass Matter at
4 PostofMee at Atlants Tnder Act of Mareh 3, 1879
Ordinance Needed Here
To Compel Grand Opera
Stars to Arise by Noon
By 0. 8. KEELER. 1
Omne feature of the old days, whenl
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 dgys 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 Edition going to press, at am)m.
the same time the newnp:\ber en
are in a fine pickle. b
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
signal for a wave of enthusiasm, near
ly amounting to a salvo of cheern.\
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 allghting. Just in
front of the Terrace the dissolute
taxi fell to pieces, depositing Billy
deftly upon the pavement, whence he
struggled slowly into port with' his
starboard engine practically out of
commission,
&N o
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 ailing 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 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 3
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 bafling habit-of changing
her appearance between appearances,
s 0 that Monday she was photographed
five times by the whole corps of
lens-shooters under the lmpresaiun;
that she was somebody else cach time,
. . -
It wad 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 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
(B{ International News Service.) ‘
CLEVELAND, OHIO, April 22.-—While
Baron Karl Ugglas was speeding in a tax
icab to his apartment in a hotel here
Tuesday afternoon he became dizzy, Inn‘
consciousness and crumpled to the floor of
the cab, where he was found when the tax!
drew up in front of the hotel. At a local
hospital physicians are working on theories
of poigoning. He appeared to be In ‘i)xrll‘
health when he entered the cab. He is
#aid to be n relative of Count Ludwig, fnr-l
merly attached to the Bwedish embassy at |
Washington. He is registered here from
New York. ]
'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 Druid Hills Tuesday afi
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 pursued it with true Latiu
enthusiasm and swung on it again as
it lay helpless in the grass and pos
sibly pleading for its Jittle life. 1
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 alse had had enough,
however
Perry Adair and I approached the
first tee to start a round—in which,
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 Willilams
both large parties. Mrs, Caruso was
there, too, and she is no absolutely
Small party herself. Signor Antoniu
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 #enewed 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 club was changed seve
eral times, always with an inquiring
lift of a xflaulve eyebrow at Perry
Adailr. THen his feet troubled hhfi
He altered his stance radically an
with frequency. It was almost as
if he were executing a clog dance.
Then it was his coattails, Th.f
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 we
down over his eyes—too far down,
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
Spangled Banner'-—oh, long may he
wave! {
Aria to Ball. J
Mr. Caruso said something—in Ital
ian. It sounded crisp with a lot of
r-r-ripping R-R-R’s in it. This form
of addressing the ball seemed to haye
its effect; Next time he hit it, but
not very #ar. 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 {he distanca
the Druid Hills peacock feebly es
sayed to rival those prodigious tones
‘with its own peculiar utterance,
Somewhat like that of a piteously
yngreased wagon wheel,
‘ It was tremendously impressive,
Then Mr. Willilams 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 extracted
delighted Ttalian 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—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-—naot
even Napoleon, said 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 wag r?n'ihle.
The generals and afimirals took the
lead 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 entastrophe.”
Murder Case, 15 Years
Old, Puzzles Police
Gwinnett County has a. puzzle in the'
case or} a 4 man hr;:nzht back from Okla
homa to stand tfial for the murder of
J. L. Braswell fifteen years ago. No«
body is able to identify the man held
as the alleged murderer, 5
Braswell was shot and killed ny Henry
Carter, nnd the authorities had almost
given up hope of apprehending the
slayer until they got word last weel
that Carter was under arrest in Okla
homa. Sheriff 1,8, Gager went after
him, and lodged his mah in the Laws
rencevife jail, But the prigsoner insisis
that his name is not Henry Carter, bt .
Bill Carter, and that he is from Ter
nessee Insfead of Georgin. "J. A. Bras
well, father of the slain man aleo st MR
that the man held is not Henry € 3.8
ter, it is sald, % sh
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