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spects to Alda and then all left for
the club, except Madame and Soot
tl, who sat and walted and walted,
When finally Mr. and Mms, Caruso
came down, thelr sartorial elegance
was worth walting for, especially
his. It is said that Caruso's clothes
have been toned down a bit by his
wife, but they are still the acme of
correctness if not odd, in any way,
Hig best effect, I think, ig the brown
belted cloth coat which he wears
most jauntily, with cream trousers
and a white hat,
But to cut a long story short and
to prove my point, the opera stars
did finally get together on this one
occasion. At any rate, they were
under the same rvof and four of
them--~the Carusos, Alda and Scottf
~~were of the same party.
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Points of Difference—
Bm‘r-w out to speak of the
difference In this season and
others, socially speaking, and here
1 am on the differences between the
opera stars-almost. But |am go
ing te stop right in time and re
sume my original subject.
After referring to the opera guest
par excellence who does not sing, |
pass on to a second difference
which lay in the more formal as
peot of the social Tunctions and the
less formal aspect of the "between
times.” For the first, there was
an absenoe of the old-time “toasts”
and speeches and songg by the stars
around the festive board. | suppose
this can be accounted for by the
absence of anything to drink the
toasts in. Quite probably. And
then, Caruso, as well as others of
the company, have been lifting their
voices in trivial song for the sake
of the war, during the past year,
they are probably tired of wasting
the sweetness of their notes on
dreary airs !ifke Swanee Ribber and
Annie Laurle. So there was little
impromptu singing at the various
banquet boards.
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Where Informality Reigned-—
Al for the playtime between
“partles” there has naturally
Lteen more of it because of the
scarcity of the formal sffairs,
Instead of the usual Druid Hills
barbecue and pienio of other vears,
there was the small and llt:’mhar
informal luncheon given for Mr. and
Mrs. Caruso by Mr. and Mrs. James
T. Willlams, BEverybody did just as
they pleased out there that day, and
the entire club grounds, golf links
and all contributed to the amuse
ment of the party, m‘oh.lly the
honor guests. T.l::l under the
dogwood trees played cards
Scotti winning all the spare change
his friend FEnrico earried in his
croam -colored trousers pocket.
“Unlucky In love, as always"
was the way Scottl chose to look at
it. They played golf a little and
“Old Bill" has already. set forth
with striking emphasis the fact
that Caruso s not a good golf
player. In fact, I believe Old Bil
says, with the stralghtforward can
dor for which he I 8 noted (at
times) that Caruso is a “dub” at
the great old Scotch game. I think
Scottl is a plnm, but certain it is
he missed one swing out at this
picnie party Wednesday. And ‘twas
well he 414, or someone else than
Polly would have told the tale. It
would have been spread out across
the top of the front page, ere this
day. ases
A Priceless Golf Ball—
Tl!n secret lay in the kind of
‘ golf ball the man was driving
At, you see. Among the several
handsome rings worn by Mrs., Ca
ruso was a wonderful pearl on her
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little finger. As she stood near
Scottl, watching her husband show
Perry Adalr how not to play golf,
Seott! took her hand and siyly ab
stracted the big pearl. In the other
Interests of the moment the owner
of the pearl did not notice it had
departed until Scotti teed up right
in front of her, popped the big pearl
nearly as large as a Glory Dimple
on the top of the wee mound of
earth which he had scooped up, and
then ostentatiously got ready to
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‘Why They Like Atlanta—
lN just such fun and frolic do the
opera stars regale themselves
while spending a very happy week
in Atlanta. The fine weather which
is about the first of spring seen by
the visitors, the flowers blooming
everywhere, the warm welcome ac
corded them, the great audiences
full of entbhusiasm, the “open-house”
aspect of the entire city, furnishes a
diversion to the singers, ss well as
to Atlantans and visitors. As for
the musical aspect of our grand
opera week, 1 have said little, be
ing “assigned to do the social,” as I
am. Yet certain it is, and so evi
denit that all can see, the musical
side of the opera week has counted
more than ever before, this year.
People went to hear the opera in so
many Instance-—not to see from
curiosity, not to be seen. The great
body of the house was not w 0 gayly
~costumed as formerly, but, oh, what
~ a wonderful attention did they give
to the performance! Aand this is
the best thing-—the main thing -
after all,
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The Great Thing—
WITH the coming of opera here,
year after year, with the
stimulation given to it by the news
~ paper publicity and the annual
- visit fostered by the excellent mu
sical entertainment of other kinds
held here from time to time, Atlanta
and the neighbors are learning to
know and love the best in music,
Now one may not know musie,
which is a misfortune, or love
music, which is a greater. But
the most unpardonable exhibi
tion of boorishness is to boast of
not knowing or not loving music.
There are many persons who are
entirely unconscious of all the finer
thrills that play across the souls
of men. But such unconsciousness
is not to be valued as an asset.
Of these finer thrills, 1 take it that
music leads the human personality
nearer to an understanding of that
which we call divinity than any
other art. “Away with thee,” apos
trophizes Jean Paul Richter to
music. “Thou speakest to me of
things T know not and never shall
know!"” But on the strains of such
tones as float away toward the
stars from such golden voices as
Caruso's, or such silver notes as
Barrientos’, we come nearer to the
~ Great Secret than by any other art,
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Some of the Visitors—
| GF:TTING back to earth and
| mine own subjects , I must
say something about the visitors
who hélped Atlanta to make the
social side of the opera the success
it was. There were many of these
charming visitors in our midst,
shedding glory on the opera audi
ences, the dinner and supper
dances, and so forth,
Among the many attractive visi
tors in the young set one of the
daintiest was lttle Miss Betty An
drews, of Chattanooga. Betty fs
somewhat like Nellie Dodd in her
style and in her dancing manner
isms, which is enough said, I mg
pose. She was a quaint little lady
at Wednesday's tea-dance, wearing
a frock of overseas blue Georgette
and a hat of the same color. I
think Betty danced away with the
hearts of several young men that
afternoon, and I am expecting her
to make a return visit here some
day. Miss Ann Bucher, from way
off New Mexico, has been a feted
visitor of the week. Miss Bucher
is rather on the breezy outdoor
style, a tall and wholesome looking
girl, always wearing good-looking
clothes. At the same tea-dance she
was stunning in blue flowered
Georgette,
Farther away still is the home of
Kitty Brack, who lives in San
Francisco. Miss Brack is blonde
and pretty and very popular with
Atlemtans. Miss Bland Williams,
of South Carolina, was an inver
esting visitor of the week. Miss
Williams hails from ‘“Mulberry
Plantations,” near Camden, which
is a unique mail address, to say
the least of ft.
One can tell that Miss Bland Wil
liams has ancestry, not only by her
aristocratic looks and her “Plan+
tations” address, but by the great
diamond which she wears on her
little finger and which It is ex
plained to curious friends is a
seven-stone carat (whatever that
may be) and was the engagement
‘ring of her grandmother,
Virginia Sawyer, of Mobile, was
in Mrs. Mitchell King's party at
the tea-dance, though Virginia is
one of the young girls who enjoys
opera better than the parties. She
has a fine contralto voice and 1s
studying with a view to a pos
sible carcer for her own self. Miss
Major Miller, of Richmond, i{s an
other visitor with a musical gift.
Miss Miller, however, is a planist.
She is a striking looking girl with
Titian hair and violet eyes and all
that. She dances well, too, even if
she is a planist,
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In the Picture—
T!{m may be some doubt in
the minds of Atlantans ag to
who is the handsomets young ma
tron in the city. But there seems
to be no doubt in the minds of the
opera photographers. One and all,
they selected Mrs. Forrest Adair,
Jr, to pose for their choicest pie
tures. Wag there a photo of Scottl,
immaculate in brown coat and
cream trousers and straw hat at
the tea-dance, with Scotti would be
Mrs. Forrest Adair, Jr,
Was there a table selected amidst
the gay throng on the terrace for
special publicity pu¥poses, one of
the guests at least wag sure to be
Mrs. Forrest Adair, Jr.
Was there a stream of automo
biles passing before the camera as
the handsomely gowned women
emerged at the door of the Audi
torilum, Mrs. Forrest Adair, Jr,
stepping out of her car, was the
firget one the movie men elected to
snap.
In consequence of the photogra
phers’ “flair” for Mrs. Adait's type
of good looks, her picture got into
the papers last week almost as
many times ag did Caruso’'s. And
perhaps she would have equaled
Caruso except for her unwilling
ness to change the character of the
pictures after the regular ones grew
stale, by making faces, as did
Caruso.
Anyway, we all now know that
Julia could be a great movie star,
if not an opera star, should she
choose to take up a career, She
most assuredly photographs well—
and the picture men certainly do
like her face.
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Intoxicating Plans—
THIS issue of the paper being
the opera number, 1 have not
paused to look ahead for anything
interesting in a social way this
week. And I do not think 1 would
find much if 1 did. Only one ex
citing event ahead for members of
the younger set I have been asked
to note. And I uppose, for the sake
of advertising this event, I should
not write it out, but should call up
over the phone and tell you about
it, in the manner of one of the
seminary girls in charge. You see
the affair is to be a lawn party for
a special charity in which the sem
inary girls are interested. It is to
take place next Friday afternoon on
the lawn in front of the seminary,
and the pretty girls are to be
dressed up in fancy costume, Yes,
and some of those who aren't pret
ty, too. The.girls have planned a
very ambitious program, with Cath
erine Hook to be crowned Queen of
the May, or something, and they
have been calling up their friends to
tell them about it.
One special girl who has a little
twist in her tongue made the big
@geat hit of all, and as soon as she
gave some of the boys a few de
talls about the affair the news
spread like wildfire and ticket sell-
Ing became brisk—or would have
had the tickets been ready—or
something,
Anyway, the girl, speaking with
her sweet little lisp, undertook to
. say this over the phone:
“All of you boys muth be sure
and come to our lawn party. We're
golng to wear pretty costumes and
have boothes on the lawn.,”
“Hey, fellers,” interrupted the
man to whom she was talking, “get
busy with plans for this Washing
ton Seminary party. They're go-
ing to have ‘booze' all over the ‘
lawn.”
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Nothing New to Stars— |
[ OVERHEARD a remark to this \
effect, after one of the opera per- |
formances last week:
“I'll bet they never get this much
applause in New York, nor have
as much made of them as in At
lanta!”
I arise to say most emphatically ,
that the speaker loses his bet.
There was never an ovation in
the great crowd of people at the
Auditorium, two or three times as
large a orowd as can get into the
Metropolitan Opera House, anything
like equal in volume and enthu
slasm to some of the ovations ac
corded the singers In their own bal
lwick,
It was quite noticeable to visitors
—this lack of demonstrativeness—
and some of them confessed to an
effort in keeping back the “bravos”
from their own lips because of the
conservativeness of the big South
ern audiences,
For instance, of the “good-bye
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saying good-bye, sixteen times,
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the house was in semidarkness.
“Btill six or seven hundred of the
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of noises. For fully twenty minutes
this kept up, till the lights were
turned on and Caruso -te‘gmd out
in correct street attire, e again
waved and bowed and sang ‘good
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of applause, whistles, bravos and
handclapping.
“Then the curtalp went down
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unusual for the great singer whose
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Buspicious Looking Persong—
P BRHAPS the photo men took
Mrs. Adair for an opera star,
just as several of the mowve strik
ing looking Atlanta women posed
tnvoluntarily at times for famous
singers.
One of the biggest hits of this
kind was made by Miss Sallle Maud
Jones, who eame into a dining room
of assembled opera stars, visttors
and Atlantans one night, wearing
a striking-looking white satin gown,
a rose-colored wrap and a diamond
necklace, and carrying a rose-col
ored fan, all of which was particu.
larly becoming to ber brunette
style.
‘Whereupon a visttor jumped up
and ran to the head waiter:
“Do tell me, quickly, who #hat
celecbrity is!*