The evening world. Newspaper, November 30, 1912, Page 4

1 4 rr: Loe Americans Must Study A broad - To Succeed in Opera, Singer Says —_—_>— Foreign Training Is Neces- sary to Impart Atmos- phere and Traditions of the Work to Aspiring Vocalists, Miss Parks, New Metropolitan So- prano, Declares. How Would You Like to Make Opera Debut Su: pended Over Stage ona Slender Steel Rod? That’s What She Did. BY SYLVESTER RAWLING. bad fete Of course I was! It's no small thing to face a Metropolitan Opera House audience for the first time,” gaid Ethel Parks, the American col oratura soprano, who impersonates the Queen of Night in Mr. Gatti- Casazza's revival of “The Magic Flute. “It would have been trying enough Just to walk on the stage, but think of how my entrance was made, I had to seem to float down from @ starilt Sky and the mochaniam that supported me had to be hidden. Do you know what St was? Well, reste for my feot &n@ a life belt around my waist were attached to a steel rod which could be} lowered, or raised, by means of a con-| necting rod of steel, working Ike an| arm. Why, it was more terrifying than the swimming harness of the It maidens in ‘Rheingold.’ And that's how 1 made my appearance. “I can't tell you how glad I was to be called before the curtain to share im the applause with my fellow artists, J thought ‘Is this really intended for me? And when I knew that It was I was happy.” Miss Parks, who in private life Is Mrs. J. N. Brownrigg, with a home on Riverside Drive, had been engaged by Mr. Gatt!-Casazza for the Metropolitan Opera Company last season, but she) had married and a visit of the stork prevented hey appearance then. | “And it's a fine boy we have,” sald | her stalwart husband last night. “If i: ren't so late I'd show him to you, He's worth more to me than all the operas ever written.” DON’T PAY FOR A FIRST AP- PEARANCE, SHE SAYS. Miss Parks studied abroad for many years, principally in Italy. Her voice interested Marcella Sembrich, who en- couraged her to pursue her oareer. She) Made ber debut in Palermo and was paid for it. “That's an important ma ter," eatd Miss Parks, “Every Amer!- can student should insist upon that. Italy is overrun with people who, for a consideration, will give you an appear- ance, But what's the good? 80 Americans have yielded to the te | tion and been sorry for it. Better to} wait ever so long for a bona fide en- | Bagement for pay, no matter how small, than to submit to such humiliation, You worse off after than before. “Do you belleve it necessary for Americens seeking careers in opera to 60 abroad?” I asked, “Certainly!” said Miss Parks, “How else can they be trained? How learn the traditions? How acquire experience? Even if we in America had a National conservatory, which, unfortunately, wo ave not, the necessity would still ex- iat, Where are the ‘American opera houses in which one could learn? The Metropolitan takes its pick of the best singers of the earth. Mr. Dippel in his Chicago-Philadelphia Opera Company and Mr. Russell in his Boston Opera Company try to follow sult. What chance is there for a novice to get ex: Perience? When we shall have a tional conservatory and sy, fifty opera houses established, it will ve different. ‘Till then there's nothing but Europe for the American girl or man who wanis to bé an opera singer. “It's not that we haven't good teach- ere of voice production. On the contrary. ‘The best teachers in Kurope recognize that, for the most part, American voices fhave been well Olaced. They ure giad to carry on the work begun so well bore. many “What country would I recommend to Americans as the best in which to study? That's a question dimcuit to @newer, Each has special advantag 1 got most of my training in Italy. France furnishes fine opportunities. Sometimes 1 think Germany a better feld for young Americans. The Ger- you know, are very thorough, pecting, and therefore have re- spect for othe: It depends largely upon individaul taste and tempera. ment.” WER FUTURE MUCH DEPENDS UPON FRIEDA HEMPE;, “What other parts vuuwile the Qu of the Night are you to sing at Metropoliian?” 1 asked. “That depends ¥ upon the com- fos of Frieda “You to take her place in ‘The Magic When he found that she could here on time. I am rehe ; Part of the Queen in with which it had Open tae season at with Miss Hempel. It is und that Miss Hempel is to sail for York early next month “I don't ind telling you that T am t wo Very desirous of singing Queens’ parts. What I'd like to be" piven Chance to sing would be Gildas Luecias, and such characters. In them I. should have a much better oppor tunity to display whatever talents | be Flute’ not Thi been New “But I am very grateful for the re- pation wievn me as the Queen of the ight, and for the cousiesy of my fellow artists and the Metropolitan Opera House management." “KOENIGSKINDER” AGAIN FOR LAST NIGHT'S OPERA, “Koenigskinder” was repeated at the | P Metropolitan Opera House last evening before a large au that seemed thoroughly to enjoy sr, Hun.perdinck's ly well except to the city, where they Played her false. Karl Jorn was the King's Son and Otto Gorltz was the ‘able fiddler, Albert Rets# and Adamo Didur were as funny as ever and Lilla n made much of the Witch, Al- fred Hertz conducted. Mime. Szumowska’s second recital at the Berkeley Theatro yesterday after- hoon had for its subject romantic muale. She fHustrated her {uminative remarks by playing compositions ef Schumann, Chopin und Mendelssohn, “DIE MEISTERSINGER” FOR NEXT FRIDAY'S OPERA, “Die Molaterainger” will be Presented at the Metropolitan Opera House for the first time this # ason next Friday evening, In the cast will be Emmy Destinn, Louis Homer, Karl Jorn, Her- mann Well, Otto Gortta, Putnam Gri: wold and Albert Reiss, Alfred Herts will conauct. “The Magic Flute” will be repeated on Monday evening, with mmy Des- tinn, Ethel Parks, Loulse Homer, Leo Slezak, Ot Goritz, Putnam Griswold, Edward Lankow and Albert Relss in the . Alfred Hertz conducting, On Wed- nesday “Goetter: emmerung” will be sung again with Olive Fremstad, Loulse Homer, Wita Forula, Carl Burrian, Her- mann Weill, Putnam Griswold and Otto Goritz in the leading part: Alfred Herts conducting, On Thursday the bliy js to be “Manon Lescaut," another repetition, with Lucrezia Bort, Carus Scotti and De Segurola, Polacoo con. ducting, At the Saturday mAtines “aust,” with Geraldine rar as Marguerite and Leo lezak, for the first me tn New York, in the title part, will id sung. Mr. Sturant wt! nduct, Leopold Godowsky, the Polish pi will play at the opera con ued Tow evening, The other soloists will be Anna Case, Can Burrian and Herbert Witherspoon, MADAME CAHIER TO GIVE Madame Charles Cahier, an American ontraito who ig thought much of in Vienna and Munich, and is to sing at » Metropoiltan Opera House this sea- son, will ive @ recital at Aeollan Huil on Monday afternoon, Her programme Includes songs by Handel, Gluck, Brahms, Schumann and Ossip Gabrilo- witsch, Victor Harris will be her ac- companiat. The German Liederkraps will give its first private concert of ‘the evening ppold, season to- The soivists will be with the permission of chorus, which won the prize at the ip. cent Svengerfest in Philadelphia, Mary Garden is to appear in Boston ay evening as Florio Tosca in ni's opera, with Mr, Rusyell's Bos. Company, Charles Dalnorey rio Cavaradoss!, When M Calcago+ Philadelphia Opera omes East again, probably, have the privilege of hearing Garden in the part here. nd afternoon tea will be sidorf-Astorla on Tues for tt efit of the nt y Society, Among the artists to ap. rare Charlotte Lund, Otto Gorite and Leo Schultz, Willlam C. Carl will give his annuat free Christmas organ concert opers. Miss Farrar was charming us Mawel as the Goose Girl and her tock b Old First Presbyterian Church on Mon- day evening. He wih be A RECITAL ON MONDAY. , asagza; Carl Schlegel und! Walter Kelley. Arthur Claassen is the conductor. One of the features witl be F, Hegar's “Walpurga," for male Auxil- | the | ETHEL PARKS as MARGUERITE .° Serge! Kotlarske Cornett bi violinist, ory, soprano, and Reba Mischa Elman gives his second violin recital at Carnegie Hall this afternoon. His programme. includes. Beethoven's sonata in D, opus 12; Bruch's concerto minor and ‘Tortini's sonata in @ othe “Devil's Trill.” zka, the Russian contratto, Metr an Ope at the len jubilee of the Brooklyn 8 at the er Hrookiyn Academy of Muste evening. to-morrow Prof. Samuel A. Baldwin will give free organ recitals at the City College on to- morrow and Wednesday afternoons. > SPORTING MEN TO GATHER AT DINNER TO VILLIPIQUE. Big Beefsteak Feast Will Be Given at Castle Cave To-Night in Honor of Veteran Caterer, A gathering of the old r: -track clang is scheduled for this evening, whe James Villipique, the veteran race-track ‘er of Sheepshead Bay, will be ten- his annual beefsteak dinner at the Castle Cave in Seventh avenue, This is one of the big “beefsteaks” of the season and will be attended by all the prominent followers of sport in Greater New York. In order that the guests may reach thelr homes before Monday the dinner starts at 6.9 o'clock. oo — The stock market continued tts quiet advance of the last several days with a jfurther upturn at the opening of bust- ess to-day, St, Paul, Union Pacific, Reading, 3! and Copper all ruled Steady with fractional gains over last night's closing range. Subsequent dealings were maintained around \op levels, although trading was very Might otwithstanding late profit taking the market closed firm and qutet, A num- ‘ber of specialties scored gains of over point at the finish, St. Paul, Steel, ind Southern Pacifle were the ‘Wo-diay's highest, and of wt Changi as fiual figures are as fol noared with Yesterday's brices of mocks My ‘o. 6 t i . a 8 % H % 106%) vy t 4 i h x Ri 1 Py 1” 1 " % 4 ay : 8 Vise TER dias g a t 1 ea 1 + [Ween Wasa at t % Hck alanis it * 1 Hou er i i v t rvs * 8 w ” THE EVENING WO | \jan tn lenough for her to close and fasten the |street and Third avenue Dittman saw BiG ROBBER JABBED WITH A HATPIN BY WOMAN 1’ AGENT He Cuts at Her With Cotton Hook and Fights Police woya keep a stout hatpin within easy She defended herself sucessfully with such a Weapon when a robber of gigan- tic build reached into her cage and slashed at her with @ cotton hook. The the arm she gave the robber sused him to withdraw the arm Jong wire window. the ticket agent's desk was a phone, She took off the receiver as man attacked the window with hia jon hook. “Help! was all Miss McArdle couid say over the telephone, unconscious from fright. Her cry for help came tn at the main offices of the B. B. T., and a telephone message was sent to the Fourth ave- nue police atation, Forty-third street and Fourth avenu Detectives Dittman, McDonough, Hy- Jand and Lohman started toward the L station with Instructions to arrest any suspicious person they met, A train came in and passengers alighting saw the man beating at the window. Then he fled, At Forty-fira on him running, blew his whistle and or- dered the man to halt. The prisoner said that he was Joseph Feist, forty, @ longshoreman, living with his wife at No. 377 Nineteenth street. He was locked up last night, charged with attempted robbery. —_ WIDOW GETS $10,000 FOR DEATH ON BRIDGE. Responsible for His Own Death, Although the city had entertained them with a wooden model of the Queensboro Brkige in demonstrating that when James J. Porter, an employee of the Bridge Department, fell from a scaffold and recetved fatal injuries last pruary, no one but himself sponsible, a jury in the Queens County Supreme Court returned a@ $19,000 ver- dict to-day for Porter's widow ‘The city employees who operate] the model bridge and the model scaffold sought to show that Porter had taken an unnecessary risk and made muci of the fact that he had worn heavy clumsy arctics. The welzht of th was #0 great that they brought Porter to the ground feet first after he had fallen sixty-five feet. ‘The $10,009 award represents the full amount sued for by Mrs. Porter, who lives at No. 2id Tenth street, Brooklyn. as NEW YORKER DIES ON YACHT IN HARBOR AT. SAVANNAH. John H. Greacen, Retired Rubber Merchant, Stricken With Heart Disease After Dinner. (Sperial to The Evening World.) SAVANNAH, Ga., Nov. 30.—On board the yacht Lodona, where he and his two brothers spent most of thelr time during the winter, cruising Southern waters, John Henry Greacen of New York, @ retired rubber merchant, died suddenly last night. The vessel was at anchor in port here. The three broth- ers had juat finished their dinner when the merchant was stricken. Greacean had deen a eufferer from heart disease, but he had not com- plained of feeling {Il during the even- ing and appeared in his usual ‘spirits. He was fifty-five years old. ‘The body will be taken by ¢he aur- viving brothers to Newark, N. J., for burial, leaving Savannah this afternoon, Found Hurt on “L” Track, James Teyman, twonty-four years old, of No. 28% East One Hundred and Forty. elghth street, was found lying on the southbound track of the Third even “L" at Forty-seventh treet this morn- ing. He had a Incer scalp and a possible fracture of the skull. He was RLD, SATURDAY, Nov ‘Then she fell | City Tried to Snow Workman Was| “Seven SHE HASNT SPOKEN TORUSBAND NORE TOWENTT YEARS During All That Silent Time They Have Occupied the Pursuers. Same Rooms. Miss Mary McArdle, tleket agent of Mrs. Sarah Mintz has lived with her the Leooklyn Rapid Transit Company at) husband In silence for eleven years. th Fortieth street and Third avenue | He has not spoken to her, nor she to L” station, said to-day she would al-| im in all that period, Conversation jin the Mintz household ceased abruptly when the wife, following a tiff, re- marked to the husband: “I will never speak to you again as long as I live.” “That sults me," responded Carson ; Mints, the husband. “I won't speak to you, elther."* Silence settled down upon the Mints household, Mr, Mints had liked to tell a good story, to discuss the news of | the day, to talk over matters of do- | Mestic economy with his wife. But he Was game. Iiis ipa might as well have been padiocked and his tongue frozen. He never chirped. Mrs. Mintz was not unusually to- jaue us, but she enjoyed a bit of rep- |artee now and then, She liked to have Sugeestions as to whether her new hat [or latest tailored sult was becoming. | She enjoyed recounting what the chil- dren had done, But she might as well have been gagged with cement, Never a word was addressed to her husband, The Great Hush was undisturbed. Perhaps this situation might have gone on until death relieved husband and wife of the necessity of keeping a voluntary silence, but finally living with a dumb husband got on Mrs. Mint2’s nerves and she began a suit for a separation, re- vealing in her complaint the story of the eleven silent years, HAVE OCCUPIED SAME ROOM ALL THE TIME. Her lawyer, Alexander Pfeiffer of No, 123 Broadway, supplements the dry and perfunctory narrative of the formal Pleadings, which were flied w the Su- Ppreme Court. “The fact that Mr. and Mrs, Mints stopped speaking to each other ald not result in an actual separation,” said the lawyer. “They continue to li together, even occupying the same room, But they never spoke. years ago their daughter Dorothy died. Both parents loved the child tenderly and were grief-stricken when her death occurred, Mut that sor- rowful event did not unlock their lps. ‘The silence that had prevailed for four years at that time was unbroken, ‘Mrs, Mints is still at her hu band's home and will continue there until she has her decree of separation. This is true in spite of the fact Mr. Mints has been served with the sum- mons In her sult.’ He has not men- tioned the matter to her, nor she to him. Neither of them will speak of it. They are keeping their vow. ‘The Mintses have married twenty-four y and have four children. The husband is a cigar manufacturer at No, 33 East Eighty- fifth street. Mrs, Mintz alleges tn her sult that though her husband has been so taci- turn to her, he has been talkative to other women, She also avers that he maintains an apartment at No. 156 West One Hundred and Twenty-first street. While Mr. Mints would not think of personally contradicting his wife, he tells other people that th latter charges are without @ foun tion. eee POLICEMEN ON FIXED POST IN THIRD AVE. RESTAURANTS. Bluecoats Are Stationed in Cush- man’s and the Crescent on Com- plaint Gramercy Residents, Members of the Gramercy Park Neigh- borhood Aexoctation are jublant to-day because they believe a great step for- vard has been made in thetr efforts to A up the district between Twelfth and Twenty-fourth streets and Fifth and Second avenues in the posting of uniformed policemen in two Third ave- nue restaurants which have been com- plained of as objectionable, At dusk the policemen take their in- terlor fixed posts—one in O. L, Cush- man & Co. old restaurant at ‘No. MT ‘Third avenue, now conducted by Charles Winchester and one in the Crescent, op- posite. ‘They stay until midnight, when they are relieved by other policemen, who remain on duty until 6 o'clook in the morning. Both Winchester and Henry Cornett, manager of the Crescent, are out on dail, following their arrest by detectives who asserted they were approached by women in the restaurants. The cases taken to Flower Hospital. come up Deo, 7, Srraitacome cee an alee Sete cheeeatet a a eat enti pets af he health i 00 can; keep this ady. PReke Wend jureoe 0a the Bi ‘These 18 Iictures tell their own" Story, CONQUER DRINK HABIT y RRM STAR Nn LDELERT SHELS AOR TARTS Of, pier rentime! Sto you gan eall'on or write tor ‘will no you pa 5 » Write for it. | net: Rowipaidmbeoluiaiy trem. Tn isd Aaa ce Ne 1y harmlsen,o Blethoa you en oltre and tha aie IMaky, beer or otter: numerous worthless Haury drinker 1ormany years everyone ‘Treatment, with Ni nt,with GUARA: mi 00, ow much he drin Tmailas ‘cal 634 Sirih dv, 7800, or EMBER 80, 1912. [EYEGLASSES AS CLUE TO BAD CHECK PASSER RESULT IN HIS AREST Louis Oppenheimer, Sought by | Swindled Elks, Is Arrested | on Optical Man’s Charge. Louis Oppenheimer, a young expuisite, | who wears diamonds in his necktie, on his fingers and even in the handle of his dainty manicure knife, and for whom the Blks in thiy city have been looking for @ year, was run to earth at his office, No, 50 West Broadway, to-day, by Walter W. Cervantes, proprietor of the Bronx Optical Company, Tremont avenue, who says of Oppenheimer's victims, | ‘A year ago, Oppenheimer, dt is alleged, | gave Cervantes a bad check for $19 In| making settlement for work in repair- ing his eyeglasses, He had talked #0 glibly of th # and of politics in the order, that Cervantes took him to be =| member of that organization. When he Investigated, he found that in Brooklyn and Newark, there were swindled Elks at No, 490 he is one| | Pills do not vary: who Were anxious to get their hands on the sua@ Mr. Oppenhetmer. Remembering that the maker of the yeglasses he had repaired was PF. Der- ger of No. 151 Fulton street, Cervantes went to Berger and asked him to keep @ watch for thelr owner. To-day Berger alled Cervantes on the telephone and told him Oppenheimer had been in his shop to have the glasses repaired. Cer- vantes, with a detective, went down to Fulton street and there got Oppen- heimer’s address, No, 60 West Broad- way. There he was placed under arrest. When the young man was taken to Police Headquarters, protesting hie in- nocence, {t Was found the had an exten- sive record. His picture 1s No, 3,677 in the gallery. He was first arrested in 1897 for larceny, did @ year in the peni- tentlary and then returned to do another rin 18%. Again in 1900 he was sen- tenced on the larceny charge to two years And six months in Sing Sing. In July of this year he was arrested for stealing an automobile belonging to Willlam F. Vogt of No. 6% Forty-ffth street, Brooklyn, and 1s out on ball pend- ing trial on that charge. lela Telephone Co. 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