The evening world. Newspaper, November 20, 1914, Page 16

Geraldine Farrar as “‘Carmen’”’ At the Metropolitan Opera House DEORE SASAAAAA DA DOD ERENT HEH EDTENIONETT ENG DD 3 GERALDINE FARRAR us CARMEN” METROPOLITAN ... $ 0406444440045 y9H5-94-1-4-94 6-064 8 6-0-4440444044440 0048406 ACTORS’ FUND TO SHARE a IN VACATION BENEFT REHEARSALS ON TO-DAY “Pandora’s Box” Will Given at Seventh Regiment Armory Dec. 4 and 5. SeYURNS A HEN PLAY ee INTO “CHANTICLEER” “ eiitage Hand Makes Sad Error in De- livering Birds for “The Road to Happiness.” BOSTON, Mass, Nov. 20—How a fm “The Road to Happiness” came ‘Be @ rooster was made known to- ‘The company carries two hens fet them scratch around. Last he grabbed the first two fowls aw and made for the theatre. ‘was delivering « speech to the Specialist when one of the birds ferth with “Cock-a-doodle- 1° the curtain was rung down mage hand confessed he had @ Diind selsction in th» rt: dle. Place for to come fitted with glasses. “HARRIS Glasses cost Pa more, depending entirely kind of ‘Te Maud Rives Borland, Miss Rachel Crothers, Mrs. Charlies 8. Whitman, Mrs. Richard Aldrich, Mrs. John W, Alexander, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mra, Livingston Beeckman, Nicholas Brown, Mra. Morton, Mra. ra. Henry Phipps, Mrs, Ogden Mills Retd, Mra. Whitelaw Reid, Mra, Douglas Robin- aon, Mra, James A. Roosevelt, Mrs. Elihu Root, Mra, Willard D, Straight, Be| Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt and. Mrs. Seward Webb, and Mosers. Henry W. Taft, Geor Barr Baker, John D. Crimmins, Mar. M. J. Lavelle, Ralph Pulitzer, Louls Stewart and Arthur Williams, fd A SR FOSTER COATES’S FUNERAL. funeral of Foster Coates, pub- FURNITURE nN CREDIT After a conference yesterday with representatives of the Actors’ Fund of America, Miss Anne Morgan, Miss Elisabeth Marbury and other mem- bers of the committee in charge of at St. Bartholomew's h Street and Madi- to that fund, of which Daniel Frohman is Presi The ballet is to be given at ¢ @eventh Regiment Armory on Dec. 4 and 6, under the auspices of the Va- cation Fund Committee of the Na- tional Civico Federation, The first dress rehearsal for the/ ,, | performances will be held to-day at No, 38 West T! -ninth Street. Miss Goddard Kel will lead the Dallet, assisted b; society de- butantes. Amo! those ansoct: el ry benefit, besides Miss Mo re Mina! gay cotillion, w! Robinson Smith, Mrs. August Hel- | man sta ther mont, Mrs. Rogers H. 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Overcoats °° 22°%,%,0% store popuer materiale—shawi, convertible’ and velvet collar coats, RUGS, BEDDING 263 6th Av. mage heroine of Bizet’s opera at the Met- ropolitan Opera House last night, she achieved a success far beyond any- thing else that she has attempted. Only Calve at her earliest and best, and Bressler-Gianoli, who, unhap- pily, died too soon, could challenge her for supremacy in the part. Miss Farrar has yet to round the charac- ter out; for, although it is already & Commanding impersonation, she ». |slantically. =| has no rival, _ TEE. EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, |Farrar Scores A Great Success By Her Carmen Remarkable Impersona- tion of Bizet’s Heroine by the Popular Ameri- can Soprano Arouses a Crowded Metropolitan Opera House to Un- bounded Enthusiasm. By Sylvester Rawling. ERALDINE FARRAR has found herself. She is Carmen. Mak- ing hor first appearance as the will improve upon it in subsequent performances as the record of her achievements in other parts proves, and with the excitement and ner- vousness of a debut allayed she will sing it better, It would be impossible at this late day to conceive a Carmen absolutely original, but Miss Farrar's idea of | the gypeyecigarette girl essentially is original, and her singing 1s part and parcel of it. Most of her vocall- | sation last night was beautiful and all was properly descriptive. The coquetry and deviltry, allied with the astonishing naivete of the first two acts, may scarcely be improved upon; but something more, psychologically, of dread import in the soliloquy over the cast of the cards, and something more of the voluptuous quality of love's surrender in the duet before Escamillo enters the bull-ring, is sure to come, One best tribute to Miss Farrar’s faithfulness in portraying Carmen is her sacrifice of her own natural beauty to her conception of how Carmen really looked. The crowded house applauded her enthu- A remarkable thing happened at last night's performance. Caruso, as Don Jose, entered upon the stago without a hand of welcome, so well disguised was he as the sergeant of his company and so well he marched with his men. Throughout the first act he wan palpably nervous, so that, unfortunately, he fell back upon his little tricks as @ comedian to hide it. Ho recovered his self-possession, however, by the time he got to Lillas Paatia’s inn and he gave one of the most beautiful pronouncements of the Rose song ever heard. In the scene with the smugglers in the mountains, and again at the final tragedy in the Plasa, he was—well, Caruso—nnd ho Amato made a fine Ea- camillo in looks, acting and singing yet even he did not give entire satis- faction in the Toreador's song. Who does? Frances Alda was an appeal- ing Micaela, and Lenora Sparkes and Sophie Breslau were satisfactory as Frasquita and Mercedes. Rothier was @ capital Zuniga, and Reiss as Dancaire and Badia as Remendado provided excellent comedy. Defrero sang Morales finely. Rosina Galli, as the premiere danseuse, distinguished herself in Lillas Pastia’s inn and in the Plasa, and the ballet was excel- tent. One of the chief joys of the pro- duction was Mr. Toscanini's exposl- tion of the score. Not within mem- ory has there been anything/ like it for beauty and incisiveness, and the painted and eo well set that they won @pplause for their own beauty. The audience exhausted the capac- ity of the house and from top to bot- tom took every occasion to show its enjoyment. Between the acts the lobbies were uncomfortably crowded with @ joyous crowd. It was the real opening of the season. Gen, Messimy Fre a. FARIS, Nov. 20.—Major Adolphe Messimy, at one time Minister of War fe the French Cabinet, and who recent- was decorat with the of loner gn act of bravery on the has been promoted to rank of Lieutenant Colonel. The former War Minister went to the front at the outbreak of the war, as a member of the General Btaff. —_—_——>———— ANOTHER TARZAN STORY! Tarzan is back! | “THE BEASTS OF TARZAN,” a se- | uel to “TARZAN OF TH” APES." by B.| i Rarroven wl begin In Monday's EVENING . LD, Nov. 30. It will be bin) EVENING WORLD'S complete novel | lor thas we Schumann-Heink Writes of Love for ‘“‘Fatherland’’; GERMAN PRIMA DONNA WHO WRITES OF LOVE FOR “THE FATHERLAND.” TEACHER-MOTHER ARBITERS. Presidenc Churchill of the Board of Education last night announced the ap- polntment of a special committee of seven to formulate a policy respecting the committee will confer with the Com- mittee on By-Laws and Legislation, The special committee consists of Mrs, Ella W. Kramer, Chairman; Jo- seph ‘Barondess, Robert L, Harrison, Mins Olivia Leventritt, Miss Christine Towns, William D. Wilsey. MRS, FRIED INCOMPETENT. Mra. Henrietta Fried, wife of Dr. Bugene H. Fried of No, 17 West Bleventh Street and a niece of the her $60,000 in trust, was declared tn- competent to manage her affairs by three commissioners and a Sheriff's Jury yesterday. For thirteen years prior to Mr. Alt- man's death Mra, fined in a sanitarium. man's death Dr, Fried brought suit to obtain his wife's release. Pie testified that Mra. Fried was suf- oh Emma Calve Nurses and Sings to French Wounded Saran a MME. EMMA CALVE, French Singer Given German WHO NURSES WOUNDED Helmet by Soldier—Says AT TOULON HOSPITAL: ~ Women Are Used as Shields by Troopers, German Diva Tells Berlin That Irish Want to Fight for Kaiser—Sends Money to the Poor. Mme, Emma Calve,. who is popular | in America, is serving in the Red; Cross in France with her sister-i Jaw, according to a letter made pub! here to-day. Her letter is dated Toulon, and says the war has so dispersed her friends she is uneasy about the fate of many. It continues: Mme. Schumann-Heink admitted to-day that she wrote a pro-German letter published over her signature. ‘in the Berlin Tagebiatt. “Yes,” she said in reply to an in- quiry, ‘isn’t it just right? And woudn’t you do the same thing for the fatherland? “I have been here for sixteen years and am a loyal American,” she said. “I am neutral, too. But blood is thicker than water. Half my family has already fallen in this war. I am a daughter of a military household. My father was an officer in the Aus- (trian army and those of my relatives who are yet alive are still in the army fighting. f my sons here is in the United tes army. You see where my feeling takes root.” She said she had sent money abroad joothe them and lull them to sleep when they are getting better—sweet songs of France, which makes them shed tears of joy, and war soi those who afte: Wounds are going back to nce. “P. 8.—At this moment a convalés- cent soldier whom I have been nurs- ing approaches me timidly with a Guess what kind of one. ‘My brother has just arrived w: @ wounded officer who has seen ‘and would send more “for the poor, | following: In a village taken by the eet | tor those whose men have been killed,’ Germans these monsters compelled for those*who cannot beg, who are|tweive years of age to march in front ibeertgtie but whose position will not {of them, at the point of the bayonet, allow them to become beggars.” could hide behind them. in : She went on to say she had received | «Words are lacking to denounce (Loysright by Aime Dupost, guage from people in England. The letter from her printed in Berlin is women and children from eight to U toward the firing line, so that they anonymous letters in the’ vilest lan- | acts of such barbarity.” Chicago, Sept. 29, and is in Young Men's and Boys’ Clothing—Third Floor OPPENHEIM, GLUNS & G 34th Street, New York | Dart: “There are in New York alone 100,000 Irishmen ready to grasp the first opportunity to go over to Ger- many and help. “Thousands upon thousands would love to go over and fight for Germany. But, you see, the Britishers inapect every ship. “I sing and talk and do everything I can to let the people know the truth, and they beifeve me, because they know I can’t tell a lie. “Oh, God, if I could only do a little toward lessening the misery! My heart bleeds, tears roll down my cheeks as I am writing this. Our fine, brave Germans and Austrians! God be merciful to them. “How one loves the old fatherland! ‘Willingly one would shed the very beart blood if it only did any good. “Loyal unto death, and prepared for any sacrifice! oes | ERNESTINE SCHUMANN-HEINK” | ——— 100 MADE ILL AT LUNCHEON. Members eof Two Woman's Clubs Victims of Ptom MENOMINEE, Mich., Nov. 20.—Some- thing happened to the salmon ‘or the salad at the luncheon given by sizty members of the Menominee Woman's Club to forty members of the Escanaba ‘Woman's Club. Opinion is divided among the women who have recovered suf- ficiently to be able to talk. ‘The luncheon was given yesterday. ‘The women bogan to collapse before they left the luncheon room. To-day all are ill and some of them seriously. All the hysiclans in the two towns are in at- lendance. They say it 1s ptomaine isoning. Remains of the food Being analysed. “Many of the guests from Escanaba are in hospitals and homes here, being too ill to return to their own homes. 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