The evening world. Newspaper, January 23, 1904, Page 3

CALE DIDN'T ~-BETRAY DOEME Opera Singer Just Over from Paris Denies that She Wrote to Her Friend Nordioa About the Latter’s Husband. IF SHE KNEW ANYTHING SHE WOULDN'T TELL IT. Will Rest for a Few Days and on the First of February Will Appear in “Carmen” in This City. Mme. Calve, wrapped in sabdles, her cheeks. glowing with health, her flashing black eyes dancing merrily and her lips Parted in a bright smile, was the first Passenger to descend the gang plank of the steamship La Touraine, when she made her dock at the foot of Morton street to-day through a dense fog that bund about the ship in opaque blank- ets ,, The famous singer fairly bounded ‘down the gangplank, and greeted her friends and a number of reporters with a laugh that rang through the fox- uded plier shed. Ah,” she said, heaving a long sigh, “it is just grand to be back in this country. I use a little swear word, purbleu, c'est magnifique! Ah, you see I am thinner, mon ami,” turning to her friend, Charles Henry Meltzer. “It is because I dance for the exercise. IT dance all the time. It Is what you call my physical culture.” “Have you heard from Mme. Nordica lately?" asked an Evening World re- porter. . Hears Often from Nordica, The great singer's bright laugh rang out again, and puckering up her eyes she replied: “Oh, yes, I often hear from Mme. Nor- dica, She is my great and dear friend. Yes, my very dear friend,” and Mme. Calve's shoulders shook until one of her sable wrappings fell to the floor of ‘te pler. \ “Did you write a letter to Mme. Nor- ica on which she based her divorce from her husband, Zoltan Doeme”” que- ried the reporter. “Ne-e-val-r!” cried the Calve, again wreaking into her merry laugh. “I nevair wrote a disagreeable letter in my life. And to a friend—non, non."* “Did you know that Mr. Doeme was attentive to another woman in France?" was asked, Never Saw Doeme in Her Life. “Meester Doeme," asked Mme. Clave, puckering up her eyebrows, “uttentive she was driven away to the Hotel Sav. MME, CAL VE, WHO DENIES BETRAYING NORDICA’S HUSBAND, | to another wom: Meester Doeme have a mistress? and agun the broad shoulders shook with mirth, Then lirally, with a ttle stamp of the toot, he exclaimed: “Why, 1 never saw Meester Doeme in my life!’ Cice more the pupae Jaughter ecliued through the vaulted shel “Didn't you write to Mme, Nordica that her husband was unfaithful? asked the interlocutor. “No, no, no. Didn't I say that she was my deur friend, machere ami? I only know that there {s trouble between Mime, Nordica and Meester Doeme through what I read in the newspapers. “Please, now, meester reporters,”” erled Mme. Culve, “deny that I had anything to do with that story, or that Te or even that T know anything about her difference with her husband. Please do this Httle bit for me and I will love you a oui er wrote a letter to my dear friend, ¥." and hore the lips again part- ed in w delightful smile, and the eves puckered up tll they closed, “even it had known such a thing--do you think I would have come between a happy man and wife? Again I say Mme. Nor- djea ts my friend and T never laid eyes on Toeme in my Ife.’ Posed for Her Photograph, “Won't you pose for a photograph?” asked an Evening World reporter, “But I am not, prett: claimed Madam Calv beauty.” “You enough,” ex- ‘I'm losivg my beautiful,” are always inter- pesed the reporter, galantly “Ah, how kind,” laughad Calve; “then I will'pose. ‘It 18 dark here jn this shed end TP mugnt noc nh, ves, take. 1 e rala, out where !t is vly along the pler, the great singer went out Into the slushy street, and, standing In the rain, posed before a half-dozen eager cameras, Then where she will remain until she makes her first appearance on Feb. 1 at th Metropolitan Opera-House in Carmen. In splte of the thick weather. La Touraine made good time in her west- ward voyage. She carried but a small number of first cabin passengers. On the way over @ concert was held in the first cabl but because of thi dampness and fog Mme. Calve could not be persuaded to take part. i FIRE DAMAGES &YNAGOGUE. A fire caused by an overheated fur- nace in the basement of Hebrew fynayogue at No, 123 Allen street to- day did considerable damage *o tho building and furniture beture it finally Was extinguished by the Fire ‘Depurt- ment. THE WOKiD: SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1904. MISS PASSENGERS. CEDRIC ANGRY Compelled to Stand in Line For- ty-five Minutes at Pier for Customs Inspectors, Who Were Tardy. DOWAGER DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND ARRIVES. Miss Gertrude Peppercorn, the Young English Pianist Praised by King Edward, Comes on Her First Visit Here. After being held up all night at Quar- antine by the fog, the passengers of the Cedric were compelled to atand tn line forty-five minutes at the pter as the steamer docked to-day, waiting for the customs inspectors to show up. The Cedric reached her dock at 7 o'clock, and the first customs inspector arrived there at 7.45. He was followed shortly by several others, and the im- patient passengers were allowed to go through the formality of having their baggage passed. The customs men explained their de- lay by saying they had expected the Cedric up last night and had waited until 9 o'clock for her. Among those who landed from the Cedric was the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland. She {s about fifty-five old, but looks about forty, and is a handsome, well-preserved woman. This is her first visit to this country, and she said she expected to enjoy every moment of her stay. Dowager Not a Playwright. She {s popular with Americans who have been introduced in English socte- ty, and has a great many invitations for her stay on this side, She announced toa reporter that she did not wish to be confounded with her daughter-in-law, the wife of the present Duke of Suth- erland, The latter is the author of a play which she intends for Ethel Bar- rymore, ‘The Dowager Duchess of Sutherland has a very interesting history, and once was deprived of her court rights because of a quarrel with the Prince of Wales, who now Is King. Sho is | stopping at the Holland House. Miss Gertrude Peppercorn, the young pianiste who recently played before King Edward, and who was highly praised by him, was also a passenger on the Cedric. She comes on her first visit to this country, and will make a| yf. Keir, Mr. and Mrs. H. Maitland, Mr, tour under the management of Herr) and Mrs. W. 8. Hobart, Mr. and Mrs, | James A. Brewster, Mr. and Mrs, T. 1 Ulrich, of Baltimore. Miss Peppercorn {s the daughter of GERTRUDE PEPPERCORN, | THREE WORKMEN FELL. PIANISTE, ARRIVED TO-DAY. | scanoia cotnpsea in New House Building for M. F. Plant. |, The collapse of a scaffold in tho reat- dence being bullt for M. F. Plant at Fitty-second street and Fifth avenue to-day precipitated three workmen to |the aub-cellar, a fall of two stories. Two |were so badly injured that they were |taken to the Flower Hospital. The other was sent to his home in a cab. | Tho men were John R. Vickary, a bricklayer, of No. 3116 Third avenue; Gerald MoTiernan, a stonecutter, of N East One Hundred and Forty- second street, and Patrick Henley, of rpenter avenue, Brooklyn. y has a fractured leg, McTter- ‘alned back and many revere ft ind Tealey a sprained jog. 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