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WHITE HOUSE DOOR OPENED BY WILSON TO NEWSPAPERS New Rule Makes [t Impossible for Any One to Secretly Visit President. EXTRA SESSION WORK.! Rumor That Currency Re- form May Be Discussed Message as Well as Tarift WASIHINGTON, Mares # =Promidet Wilson Seevetary Tamulty par ta active opeation part of thelr ‘opens door policy” today, wien Tumnt nounced that Weoaper correspond © entry of his off at all times, Any newspaper ents weald ha free t+ walk im and out of Trnmtity « office unannounced of unhindered bs Any doorkeeper or messenger ie is one of the ni vations of the new Administration, 1 practically amounts to throwing open t door for wheel go round. ‘The Pret vate office adjoins Tumotft. dent's pri without name being known to the Newspaper imen, In former les it nad frequent een almost as difficult to see the s retary to the President as to see the Preeideat line Tumpity was nt work at ® wo clock in this morning, and the President Wilson's first visitor KE. M. House of Texas, his reonal friend, whom be has requently visited in New York this winter ited with have ing helped hin: select his Cabinet TO-DAY’S CALLERS AT THE WHITE HOUSE. Committeeman ssourt and Hom necticut, former Repre- sentative Pujo, who presided over t Mouse money trust investigations: Rep: aatives: Sh 1d Who is « Moon of Tennessee, of Ohio and ¢ ator Pomerene ely ruom of the White Tlouse, ‘The Supreme Court's visit was un- usually brief, due to the fact that the aides at the White House benefited by their expertence when the court paid formal respects to Taft. An embar- rassing situation was created then, as nelt the members of the Supreme Court nor Mr. ‘Taft were sure who khould leave the Blue Room first. In the uncertainty the court's visit was prolonged nearly an hour. President Wilson, Justices, hurried back to the executive offices to meet a long line of callers, President Wilson to-day finally de clded that he would not be accompanied in public by uniformed aides except on! unusual occasions. He doesn’t like the | gold lace features heretofore dis-| played. President Wilson will begin prepari tion of his first message to Congress next week. So far he has had but Iit- tle opportunity to consult his Cabinet or Senate or House message. It is probable it will de with only two subjects Predictions to-day were that the Pres- ident would not attempt to attack the present tariff in a statistical manner, but that he would confine himself to an exposition of general policy and point out schedules which he believes are in particular need of reform, ——_—>—_— WILSON ISN'T GETTING HIS NINE HOURS’ SLEEP. It Now Appears Certain There Will Be Few Social Affairs at White House. WASHINGTON, March §.—-President Wilson isn't getting the nine hours’ sleep cach night which he anno ced gome time ago was necessary to hie peace physical trim. He has been up by @ , and on his few minutes after 7 o'ele four nights hasn't been od before 1, and on two nights read until about midnight His programme, as a rule, has been to drift back to the exccutive offices every night, see a few visitors and work out matters until about 10.20, At tol k takes an qutom son, but practically all the remainder of hia hours he is employing in work It appears practically certain. that there will be fow if any soclal affairs at the White Hous tin wh Wilson is expected to participate—unt after the extra session is out of the way Hia diversion for the next few months » an autome in occasional short walk, or theatre, for whieh the new President asa decided fondness, ———>——_ CHILD RECONCILES COUPLE. n the afternoon he Wil Probably be Mmited vile A father's pleas to his wife for aughter have resulted ving up je differences of Louls Van Brink, 4 elletondo auctioneer, and his wife, Briel, who, threc weeks the Van Brink home at No, 2? Weat Nin eaghth street and went to live with h Fighter at the Hotel Endicott Avdiscontinuance of a writ sued out the fathe ptalh his child was Med in the Sup urte te ay’ vife’s lawyer, Charles Hoffman, stated husband and wife have reconciled, { 4 to Wateh the | dertook In creatin: . so chac| that both Mr. Damroseh and Mr. Hen- will be impossible for any one to see | derson orig! Secretary Tumulty or the Vresident| take the p: M+! you don't, What do y of Kentucky ane - O'Neil of Atbabama, | ali had engagements with the President | ‘ lurlag the forenoon. The President also} 1 the Supreme Court in the Blue | fter chatting briefly with the! footlights to the audience. aders about the, the tariff at! some length and currency reform briefly. | mind and to keep him in good | 1 the White House he} bile ride with Mrs, Wile | Only Italian Surpasses! Our Language as Me- dium of Grand Opera, Thinks Prima Donna, Who Created Role of, Roxanne in Metropoli-' tan Opera Co.’s New Production in English. YLVESTER RAWLING “s you liked my Roxanne in’ Mr. Damrosch's opera, | ‘Cyrano,’ sald Mme, Fran-| es Alda, when 1 called upon her | youtatdage “Of course, I'm glad, but" (with that arch smile that those who have the pleasure of her quaintance know so Well) “there's | |hothing remarkable about that, is) there? Didn't all the crities say) nice things about me? Goodness) knows 1 wasn't always treated #0; well, was 1? But there, 1am frank-| ‘ly so glad that IT have—what do} you say?—'made good,’ that 1 can} forget anything and everything dis- agreeable that ever was said about! me. Tt wasn't an easy task that Toun- Roxanne, 1 don't Want to hore you, Perhaps you know tnaily desired that I should t. fu Mr. Gattl wouldn't listen to it because Iam his wife, Then Miss Farrar was approached: but she declined hecause she didn't care to sing | lish, Next Mins Destinn was of-! in fered the part. She accepted it eagerly ‘but, after months of studying the score, | the turne t hack because she did not feel that she could master English suf- | ficiently well to be effective, So, late in September, the part came back, and again {tf was offered to me. I accepted and since then [ have worked to the best of my abilily to make {t and the whole opera a success. | e OME OF THE DIFFICULTIES IN CREATING A NEW PART. “Do you know what it means to cre: ate a part ike Roxanue? Of cours ‘ou critics, sitting | calmly out there in the atalls, eyes and [ears wide open to find some funlt that with @ clever turn of | you can point your pen, perhaps with a neat epigram that will please your readers—[ say, what do you know of the thought, of| the study, of the labor that we artist. Interpreters of a, new role have to be: | Stow upon the score alone; of the fishts | with the composer, who regards his | work as his own child, to amputate any part of which is inhuman, or a sacri- loge? I tell you It means fight all the time for the proper machinery to give oneself an adequate vehicle of musical EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MAROHE 8, English as Singable as Any Other Tongue, Says Mme. Alda After D nr a DYNAMITE BLAST ebut in “‘Cyrano’’ CRIPPLED NEARB ALTIMORE an Big Guns Injured Walls We ened at Howard, Resources i Poss *\nnie Gr Armistead land, She Says. roll Defenses, HALTIMORE | troue explosion amin ateamor of more than $250. One investigation already Up to noon to-day twenty-six red brought a nas aartously fonses of the harbor, concrete foundati | Carroll were crack | the guna themeely falling pieces of ateel from ti { thousand dollar | the damage 's lew at $2.50 BROOKLYN MAN DEAD IN AN AUTO WRECK AT PHILA PLA *! Josiah W. of Walter Damroseh, MME ALDA, PHOTOGRAPHED IN A MIRROR ~ THE LATEST SOCIETY FAD to ail the subscribers, T don't} announced for Good Fr I have prom- e back from ‘Patias. in time | JOHN M'CORMACK SINGS WITH DAMROSCH ORCHESTRA. popular Trish he Symphony ‘The Liederkrang in to give a dinner at Roxanne on Perkins of the Al- lantic Refining Co. Unser eae tie He Was ae Rv: | 10 SUBHAY 1 iN OPENED seit “nate nines A dropped Into the Lobster Palace at sey performance war the soloist at Society's concert terday afternoon, keap a concert Gattl expects me to come attl-Casaana, tan Opera Compan derson, the Mbrettist; At Willlam J. Hi d Hertz, the group of classi’ sleeping care? ew York to Texas to carry On a one-night tour stand.” wsky's fourth Spectal to The Rrenins Word) e and rorlo from Webe: PUTLADELPHIA, traffe. manager Atlantic Refining Company, whose home 1469 Fifty-aeventh manuel Baruph 1s to be the to | What @ pity that F jcreator of Ro’ make a graceful exit because she does y distingulsned Sehubert’s Mareh “LA BOHEME” WELL SUNG aly! PLACE OF “CYRANO.” was at No Through Tunnel and Acce; was large und appreci= compositions when an automobile tn Ww expression, After that comes the ab- sorption of the potential qualities of tne character, the subordination of self to | the conception of the author and of the composer, the consideration of neans by which @ comprehension of a distinct entity can be forced {This ten't what you came to talk to me avout Is it? Of course not. Forgive me! I am really very much interested in the success of ‘Cyrano,’ aside from my own part in the production,’ rankly, Mme. Alda,” I sald, “what I want to ask you is what do you thin of English opera, now that you have been @ conspicious figure in the latest example of it?” MORE SINGABLE. “What do I think of it?" she replied What I have always thought! There ts no language save, possibly, Italian that {8 more singable, Did you have any difficulty in underatanding me as Rox- on a high B, with a descending scal blurred; but was there anything else? the opera house the night after ‘C rano, when the opera was sung in French} production Now I know and can sing French and Italian as well I can sing English, 1 listened tntently and, belleve me, only a small percentage of French words} poleves it will be a success and that, and. It is true, night] at least, could I under atter night, of the diction in French, and in Italian, and in German, that the House have to listen, NOT A PLEASANT TIME WHEN SHE FIRST APPEARED, “Do you know," said Mme, ‘vat I had a pretty hard I tirst appeared at the Metropclitan Opera House, Everyoody seemed—weil, at least not friendly to me, There were ali sorts of dissensions cabals in the company and there was a divided management between Mr, Gattl and Mr. Dip) ‘The critics seemed host! tome, [ Was extremely nervous, Why, I have gone on (he stage at the Metr an Opera House when not only my knees were we but when I could not Keep my Jaws from trembling from nervousness, How I ever got through some performances f can’t tell. Then I was cast only once in six weeks or # and every time I went on Was as if I were making a debut “LT needn't that the atmosphere is changed. 1 feel now that the public, as Well as the) critics, are my friends, 1 am beginning to do myself Justice, Do you know that T have sung abroad in thirty-two operas! What chance have New Yorkers had to Judge of my capacitle Just then the telephone bell rang and Mine, Alda excited herself to answer tt When she came back she sald: ‘Isn't hat just my bad luck?" What's the matter?” said 1 “Why, Amato's throat i# 1a such cons dition that he reports he can't rano to-night. Mr, Weill, from the Opera House, has Just informed me that, instead of ‘Cyrano,’ the opera is to be a Boheme. I was counting on thi second performance, Well, I shall ring Mim! fo-night, and then, at once, I'm off to Texas on a concert tour, “Mr, Gattl really wanted to give It for the City. the opera presented at ti Opera House Hecksier will Acollan Hall next Friday evening. Alex: | be given at} PUBLIC SCHOOL RECITALS ANNOUNCED FOR NEXT WEEK. street and Chester avenue, | will conduct the car belonged | and the solotsts will b Symphony Orchest constriction of the throat that made It tare he should sing. in the lobbies that M: os the] Damroseh aritied in just as the curtain rose and. proteste changed was enjoyed b. vably, more than by anybody, | for he has a of the retining company | collowing lectu imbalist, violinist, f the ateoring hounded over the side tree, sprang about t ahead and then (urne ase the scenery | Vexilia Rew a sacred canta subterranear vf Keyed Insta el at noon of day, under the more disappointed over the change of bil! ret Is expressed In an articie Nevertheless, | made a charining Mimt In Puceini’s| singing with \ tuneity and acting With grace. NO LANGUAGE SAVE ITALIAN} martin wa: Alten excelled here Sowurola, Pin “Irish and | sanist choir master, Frank Ormsby and as alone in the ear, Tom Daniel will b | Whowe re that leads this 8 dead upan arriving t body was removed to the Mor CATHOLIC ORATORIO SOCIETY IN “DREAM OF GERONTIUS. as to the defection of Dr the conductor, entirely with elma Kronold, Modolfo, Bella ; the direction of was «pent in Phila years to run and he has no intention of | despite the tempt: | with his parents, orsi, Anantan, orm l poser has set to the poe good cast, Mr. Polacco conducting, a Vifty-sevontis eighth oratorio NEXT WEEK'S OPERA BILLS; anne? Possibly on that word ‘pursuing’ | PREPARING BORIS GOUDOUNOFF | | No new work is to be presented at my diction might have been a Lttleleng a | Perkins war a whlower, sister survive Over noprane, ws Jon Tuesday semurie Campbell will sing th: Gatti-Casazza Let me tell you something. I went to} ¢ypoea hard at work, : eee from the torments of ecxema, w and Crescen MINE OWNER IS IN JAIL; FAILED TO PAY ALIMONY. | will sing the neat Thursday | senbelmer tham’s annual Bi he thinks himself justified in are annual f use, in his Judgment, | it is an original Ry subscribers to the Metropolitan Opera} drama, the forerunner of a new school Lina Cavaliert Deaf Mutes PUPTSAU RG | and Lucian Muratore, aries Chariot | tree organ reel Tat the City Coll nesday afternoons The subscription bilis to- | toemorrow i eke loft of the} TRIES SUICIDE IN HOTEL; FIGHTS FOUR POLICEMEN. Wednesday, Lucresia Bort, Maubourg, k int One Invader ot Reiss and Rossi with Johanna When Run Down in physical condition it is usually because the action of the organs of digestion has become irregular or defective. Then there is need for a safe and speedy medicine to relieve the ills which occasionally depress even the brightest and strongest. 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