The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1918, Page 16

‘ae THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1918 Geraldine Farrar Openly Challenges Melba’s Idea Of Great Operatic Singers Farrar’s Te Offect Kider Diva's Claim of Supertority for Nordica, | Calve, Eames and Herself, Latter-Day Singer Names Galli-Curet, Garden, Hempel, Ratea and Gluck De Reszke Never a Caruso. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Georrixds, 1918, by the Hress Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) “cc DO think {t's too bad for old ladies to talk Mke that!” Hor blue Irish eyos Slashing, her eubUy curved mouth rebel Nous, Geraldine Farrar in one impulsive, mischtef-laden sentence snatched up the gage of battle Sung down to her generation by Mme. Melba when she sald recently in Tae Evening World: “There is no opera to-day be cause there are no great voices, no great singers.” ls ts Miss Farrar's place and privilege to defend . the anger of to-day, not merely because he herself is sige ny chief among the constellation of women artists at the wy Metropolitan Opera House but because, as the Amer! n”, com girl triamphant, she fa especially the favorite of “ES” our generation and country. Melba, when I talked with her, epolke of the four great singers of her time —Tordica, Caive, Kames and berself—-and frankly doubted the exist- ‘ence of their equals among the voloes of today. “But why has ahe nothing to say about anybody except the dead e@nes™ exclaimed Miss Farrar, between indignation and amusement. “Those women were great. Calve had @ luscious voice. Hames had a beautiful voice and was beautiful to look at on the sta although I did not admire her. Melba’s organ was perfect; she had only to open her mouth and a voice Like « Dird's camo out of her throat. Nordioa I think iy the knowledge of only one language, ehe made her brain master her voice and learned perfectly so many roles. But it {a childish to say that all the great singers belong to # past generation. There are women to-day who are meeting triumphantly the much more exacting demands of their pubMe, I am glad to come to their defense. seQ ALLI-CURCL, whom Mme. Melba almost ignores in your inter view, which I read with so much amusement, has a phenomenal voice, the most luscious voice we have heard in a decade. Surely no ono should know this so well as Mme. Melba, because the voice of Galli Curet ds her tybe exactly, the coloratura soprano, Wouldn't It have been more kind, more generous, more womanly of Mme. Melba to ac knowledge this and to say what every one knows to be the truth—that of {te type the volce of Galli-Curci 1s the most perfect in the world to-day?” “You are generous,” T observed. “Joalousy delongs, I think, to the prima donnas of another genera- tlon,” she replied. “The woman singer of to-~day, like the woman fn all fields of work, fe glad when other women succeed. “IT don't want to be unkind,” Miss Farrar interrupted herself. “I slways Lave felt warm appreciation and gratitude toward Mme. Melba, because when I was tust beginning to sing she was most helpful to me and Introduced me to her own manager, Mr. Ellis, who later became iny manager, She was good enough then to assure me that she belleved rome day I would rise toa great place. I should think «he would be a Mttle pleased and proud that I have fulfilled her prediction, but {nstead, T believe she could kill me for at!” Miss Farrar smiled with remtniecent candor “ ELBA ts so amusing,” she observed, “She comes to the opera, the Metropolitan, you know, and just fans the atr. Sho doesn’t clap ‘once, but simply waves her handa back and forth. She had a wonderful voice, I thought, when I first heard her. But that was twenty-five years ago. “I shall have sense enough to Nsten when nature tells me ft ta time to stop, and I know that I shall not try to sing Marguerite when 2 weigh 200,” Miss Farrar declared with emphasis, “ Va ND. you are not pessimistic about the opera and opera-singing of the present? I asked. The vivacious, creamy-tinted face, set in beantiful crisp black hatr, @newered me before the quick rush of words, Miss Farvar 4s too in- telligent and animated to be classically beautiful, but she has one of the rare faces which can stand the strongest sunlight. She deliber- ately led the way to tt yesterday afternoon tn the reception room of her apartment. “T am most optimisttic about modern opera,” she replied. “As for @ingers, this generation has developed a new and most interesting type, the singer-actor, 80 per cent. yotce and 60 per cent. dramatic talent; perhaps even 80 per cent. dramatic talent. That {s what tho sodiences of to-day want. “In the opera of other days one person came tn the front of the etage and warbled, then stood aside while another person warbled, and greatest of (he four, because, conquering poverty, opposition then two warbled together, To-day people want something more than BY T “ thd , @ voice, One reason why Galll-Curct is great 1s because she puta so ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER. pouch dvariatis games (ath (hoes old tianlian oper Aa ¥ watched her Covrright, 1918, to the Pree Puliteling Ue, (he Now York Prentng World from everything from flat arches of the facilities to fivveritis of ihe T could feel that her bratn’—here Mise Farrar'a white hand swept | H AROUN AL, KAHOOTCH or somo other tamous t Jagabo of accomm na. And they haven't diagnosed the entire case even yet. aerons her own forchead—"was working, that she knew so surely each Bagdad used fisguise Mimself as a Hest emg dea and The latest relapay that the B. It, T, enjoyed was euperinduced by an moment what she was going to do the next moment,” | tour around among his subjects togdincover what they thought attack of stuttlecarookia, It 4s caused by an eruption of shuttle curs, # A ND what other womon singers of to-day would you praise?” I BEEN “Ane Her pit an ental, fies mee Emon which bust out in ali direotlona like Chinese shooting crackers, We put A arked . bis Joyal constituents Haroun invented tha ear Mutt Hare ed to the ookis on to make {t sound scientific, Shuttlecarookis would be a Patina Gattis, de crates. ta wondertill and Aitee:Farcax seeccity, | ene een mate nly liked to hear what ho liked to he | dangerous disease tf nllowed to proceed to its destination, but fortun- "And Rosa Raisa, who {# very young, has a most beauti¢nt Beale id This Haroun “9 of buzzing among your cllentelo rotting ately, the disease ts just ke the shuttle car, No shuttle car ever ar- shows promise of great th! Then there ts Frieda Tem aA =. | Quite @ play. Mayor Iiylan aid @ Haroun a few weeks 1 ftv rives at its dos! fon, A shuttle car hasn't got any more terminal than has a lovely votce and she knowe how to use tt baabosiliuals in | Moleesn ith Mi PIG: OB ORR Se Mb TAL Rs: D9 coun Switzerland has a soa coast, A shuttle oar simply ebutties around like polen, Jn concert there {8 Alma Gluck : - ‘Bmany | try refrigeratora Ho dangled off a B, RT. strap, trod on t an ah @ Mexican Jumping bean with a slight mp and then shuttles back = | the other Brooklyn bunioneers and jolted and chilbiaine A again. Getting on a shutt ar is just Uke travelling in a revolving An for the men, I don't believe that any De Reezke ever aang as of the B. R. T's jit patients, After one week's inter: in th door, You ven't any more chance of getting anywhere than the Caruso nines in ‘Alda,’ for example. His voice ix phenomenal.” B. R. Te Hve-cent detention camps, Haroun el liylan esonped te vie, f MAIN ReLTA on w carousel ich “i ; SAI BAS Auda 48 i ae “cent detention eampa, oun al liylan escaped to his baidslacni? eee “ ties Acted » canaerons y frank question. “Do you think Private limousine and now travels to his ossif limousinishly, He is And shuttle cars can't be cured, ‘They are something that it ts y bars on ee ale ae pl ns eos cured, But the B. KR. 1. inn't Impossible to vaccinate against, And about the start of this stuff, that omptly. ‘coable organ. Tt may be Ive about H. Msguiste ! TH sotlbe cutddar- And. image cantina 4 sone A, salve abou oun disguising Limself as on honest egg dealer ts th angerous for me to ray this, but one thing expertence has taught me a Sagi Ney au r [ me lear Seatioas “ panning the B. R, T bask: (Phere ain't aay & rd he te that gontus means « knowledge of one {tations ’ ie ee Hoke ATO Certainly: nome = pd Pan-B, R. T.'6 tn that borough, @ in eae Yet I have two such widely oppostte roles as Carmen and Butter- ea fad Serie bi paslalahg ap Kyat ibaa dh io fly. There ts a world of difference between them. The musto of ; ae sf 5080): AEROR : among Brooklyn's strap danglers, ao he unselfishly gave up h : POOR RICHARD JR. Carmen is simple, but 1f you oan't set it you're gone, In Butterfy | came ea hermit ina limousine, Brocklyaites, Brovkiynetion con neste D you mirht he the mort wonderful actress in the world, but you would aero pet en G00 EROOes 4 lynute have spent the ‘ist teh years poking sticks in tho B. 1 Th i (f you eo ji . T. cage. © man soon declines who does not decline often enough. ia y sil Bet fine ph cmeperine sho fingers ot to-day with They have frittered owoy the last decade (pronounced the sino am de- | eof. #6 ; na ft eho n into consideration that eayed) in picking out th: "). R.'D’a weak epote, classifying tt ¢ ala Tho rolling stone gathereth no moss, The stationary stone gatherath tho latter had onty to lonra four oF five roles, bnt now we must per- | tion aliments and ib ite! apitarsina oh a ; Teporthe | meee but it gathereth upon ite back, r " n t re | atin, Ndemies of delayed sehedulitie, fee ringing and noting—tn at loant ton or twenty roles, | the tenvoas allio they have diseovared thes the Fut: te aontaine vi When Molha sang they antd, ‘She's not as good as Patt!’ But s outtertag ea be what did that matter? @ho wan ‘Po-day, When T atng they any, ‘Rhe'e See eneseert aereny ~ -- — —— -- eee Rot ns mond ne Motha’ Dut what does that matter? Tam To-tay” | NJ Vv } | ptersea + allah 'nonmn aeetme litt rice of @ local pi! t : w f . Sse } alt f Old O. r r v noi le ‘oom of with the service of @ local ptlot when fintrhed Geraldine Farrar, Mn all the fing, frank arrogance of youth, ew oss¢ recked on 1 0p 0 ) , NE foiser ox The wreck occurred entering @ harbor, It was estimated| “To-morrow, when we are dead and forgotten, anme women inay sing B’ « sirepae ons donee, (he now other steamer that wan lost on the| When the captain, unable to obtain » at the time of the accident that the better than eltherofus, But what will that matter—unt!] To-morrow? " 6 vals a which re-|same spot sever go, Bo| local pilot nt of a storm, at cw vessel, valued at $1,000,000, In short, Miss Farrar thinks that sufficient unto the diy—even our | peeekwater at ‘Ta soa Median eee sce MAW vennsl: planed!) \OmApiES (0 & my AE hip olloanie leben seve Baie bees a ean oF regal ‘ waslover the other, saye 1 up Me- [culations r-garven'to ¢ this kind J» keenly felt, as veasels ~~ ber theahot, aS equerely 0 tha top of wn-(chaoiom thet ila bola roam mae! mpasian bhe dana @f dipsiaing have gimcbicalx doubled io walug, - sara ~ ve Wousiiuwes ume y eh yentable diseases,” urday 11 A. M. J EA SRR AD | Diagnosing the Case of the B. R. T. It Didn’t Take Long for Haroun al Hylan to Find Out It Had Flat Arches of the Facilities and Flivveritis of the Accommodations, and He Even Suspects Shuttlecarookis, Which Is the Least of All, for the B. R. T. Shuttle Car Doesn't Get Anywhere, Like a Mexican Jumping Bean or Travelling ina Revolving Door. Answer to Melba---The Song-Birds of To-Day| THURSDA FEBRUARY 14, 1918 Time for a Woman Judge‘ ! To Solve Women’s Problems | | Has Arrived in New Y ork | “Under Competent to Judge Fairly Character of Testimony | Question as to How, Under Streas of Condi- tions, Another Woman Ie Apt to Act.” By Clarice M. Baright Copyriht, 1998, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Pvening Weaté. 6s OMEN must be permitted to assist in administering certate W phases of justice, particularly where women and childrem are concerned. Not only will the women of New York demand it, bat they will work and fight for it, am@ they will win, Just as they did on the 6th of lam November. They must take a band in making the laws which affect women and chiidven and Jearm how these laws may be best interpreted and admin- istered. This bas been the tissue in my campaign speeches for Buffrage and {t is the freue now since Suffrage has been won, "The woman who expecta to do the big work awaiting her must be equipped to handle it, “If women expect public office they must equip themselves to render public service. No womes can afford to fail, Every woman in pubilo Mfe is the representative—the epokesman for her sex, She must make good, because the whole cause of | Woman's public usefulness is bound up tn the record of each woman who comes before the public eye. “Women are not going to obtain political preferment merely Be cause they ask for it, When they do get It, it will be because the selection of women to fill important posts will follow the trresistible logte of efficiency In service to the public. Unless a woman can give @ 00d reason for holding a public position, she does not deserve it. “The women of New York demand a woman Judge because it land Just that In the courte which have to deal with of thousands of women and children there should de im Under certatn conditions only ompetent to judge fairly the stion as to how, under certain reasonable, the welfare cluded at leas a“ trained woman of experience in } character of teatlmony—the ue judge who isa woman ei the qu | stress of conditions, another woman is apt to act. “For instance, here is a case which came to my attention not long A young woman, under promise of work, was lured Into a down- of the place, Finding her ago town shop and attacked by the proprietor way out to the street, she was Interviewed by an officer who, upon her | complaint, arrested the proprietor. who was subsequently charged with | a serious offense for which he faces » long prison sentence. ‘This girl | Is shown to have been a young woman of expertence, had travelled all over the country, and there are Incidental facts which woyld make it hard to believe that she could have been as helpless as the character of the charse would imply. “What are the real facts” “Was she the victim of an outrageous assault against whieh abe was powerless to protect herself, or was sue likely to lave been @ party to that temptation? Only a woman with keeo insight into women’s nature, 2 trained mind and a knowledge of women would ever know. Surely, {t 1s doubtful {f any man, no matter how able, could ever be certain, More le a case where the woman judge would be In a better position to arrive at the truth and administer justice for all concerned the girl, the man and the public “Here is another case of an entirely different character. “A woman has been deprived of her cbildren because her husband, from whom she {s separated, {s a man of wealth, able to pay for the sort of legal talent which was clever enough to make a case for him out of trivial conditions. It is proved the test! iy that all the little {netdenta which endeared the mother to ler children were held p to ridicule and used to prove the mother's incompetency. The vary act of a perhaps over-rolicitous mother, tucking her children Into thetr beds at night, was twisted and turned until {t was used as an tneldeat to prove her weakness of mind. Every act was analyze! and criticised | by these well paid attorneys until the mother, realizing that every: thing and everybody was against her, threw up her hands tn despatr. Incredible, you say; yet that happened right here in New York tn the twentieth century, and the woman {8 as perfectly sane and normal as twenty years of 1] treatment at the hands of a crafty, cruel husband } could permit her to be—and the only criticlsm against her ts her @ollcitude far her children, Does any one suppose that this woman would not have recetved better justice from a woman judge who an- derstood the instinct of her mother love which prompted al} these little acts which were so misconstrued? “I advocate the segregation of young offenders. | believe thet the youthful lewbreakers who come before the courts for the first time should be kept apart from those whose dealings with the law bring them under the classification of hardened offenders and ertminals, “A young girl had been arrested on suspicion. White her care was receiving attention and before belng brought before the court she was detained in the same pen with expertenced criminals of the most victous character. When she declined fo smoke the cigarett, whign one of them offered her, her ‘rezpectabilty’ was ridiculed and she wee forced to lsten to the vilest language. When the gtr) « ashamed and hurt. Her pride and self respect had » blow, Subsequently she was adjudged innocent of th eho had been held and immediately roleased, but no | efface from her mind the shame and disgrace of 1) the company of hardened criminals. Tt 1s problems of this character which I beli meet, The time has come when the people remedies be found. With the new power which woman {n politics, the active, intelligent ample opportunity for splendid work. me out she was fered a severa ‘tee for whieh thing oan ever hours spent in * women mmaw 'ng that proper rage gives the man will fina ' voman judge.” traine Tt Is time fe \Stokes Trench Gun Beats German Mine-Throw, N artillery problem developed sponded with a » : A in Prance when the opposing Biches gun, which has proven te ‘ armies settled down to ware See ‘snks with the Mftie fare in tho trenches, In some places|mnoning ee et i’* ANd the Lewte jonly a score of yards apart, The nice enemy was safe from s\ trom thelenough to be big rifles, which pa, over and! The butt is a: burst far to the rear, whilo It was air of legs aiMcult for the large- | muzz . ma » It pormtble to elevate |itzers to land a shot squarely in the|the gun to the des 6d ran, Jattch, A gun Was needed which would| Firing {ne The neu gently lob a quantity of high explo |and the well dronnag tare y Aghtet | sive cross the narrow space botween | The rod explodes the ‘ee musete. ‘the fighting lines and off palin {°* profentiie "8 charge, The Germans set to work and pro-|rand of destrocion tn ‘on te on duced the'r “minenwerter,"” @ smail|trench, only a few hundred yee french mozien, Rus Sha Dritiap chs lane MER Taeee eo ee Certain Conditions Only a Trained Woman Ie