The Portland daily press., 1896-05-02
DAY WITH NINE. CALvE.
Women and Girls Are Slaves OF tn
Gay SOngstress.

Nature Taxed by Autograph Fiends
Collector of Souvenirs and Girls With
and without voices-Her Religious
views-Her Novel Bicycle Course.
ga man with sho for Nine. Calve,"
announced the bell boy.
"Tell him to wait little while till
madame comes in" said Nine. Guy
d'Hardelot, and she sank into q chair
and sighed.
THAT is the way 1t is from morning
till night" said Nine. d'Hardelot, who
is Calves secretary at seems to me 1t
must keep one bell boy busy simply COM
ing and going to and from these apart
ments.''
'And how does Calve enjoy it?"
"Oh, try to keep people away from
her, otherwise it would wear out. She
doesn't speak English, and that is pro-
lection to herr
Doesn't she care to Learnt"
"She doesn't seem to. I've tried to
teach her, but she won't take any in
terest in it. She sang an English song
the other day, however. 1t was one of
| my songs which had taught her. and
she sung it at my concert at the Waldorf.
Right in the middle of 1t Il was playing
| the accompaniment felt someone give
me an emphatic dig. 1t was Calye. She
had forgotten word and wanted me to
whisper it to her, which I did, to the
open amusement of everybody present."
| "Apropos of the man with the shoes,
said the reporter, "has Calve done much
shopping in New York;"
: 'Oh,-yes, she bought a good many
things here. When she sees anything she
likes, that settles it. She buys it imme-
diately. But she is not extrayagant.
Pretty clothesP Yes, indeed. she likes
them, but she cares very little for jewell
ry and things of that sort She will be
as pleased as child over any little gift
FROM friend, but she does not receive
Jewels from her stage admirers. She ao-
cepts nothing but flowers. but as for
them, her apartments are like a great
flower garden. And it is the young girls
who send most of them. They adore her
They seize every opportunity to see her,
and if she but gives them one smile they
|
does not seem to be tn 9 sort of woman
who infatuates men; at any rate not
across the foOtlights.
Speaking of jewelry, she likes to
have little things in odd designs. She
will sit down and amuse herself by draw
ing intricate triangles and circles, and
then nave goldsmith copy her designs.
She likes old pieces of jewelry, and is a
| trifie superstitious, too, and always wears
four leaved clover in some shape. But
her greatest fondness is .or books. Oh,
Calve is not butter-fiyl She reads
much and carefully, and she Is particu.
lalry fond of scientific books. Oh, yes,
it is truel' as the reporter uttered An
exclamation of incredulity.
"She studies every phase of a role, too.
I remember when she was to sing in
Faust" she took Goethe's book, and for
week she was scarcely separated from
| it. She is well read, is Calve, and intel.
| ligen5, too. Religious? Yes, extremely
-. She has no patience with unbelievers
and always tries to convert them. She
| is Roman Catholic, but has good
many Buddhist theories about reincarna-
ton. AS soon as she sees a person she
begins to theorize about what that per-
son has been in a previous existence.
She says I was horse, because I am so
energetic and so passionately fond of
horses"
"AndIwhat does she think she was
hcrself?''
"Let me see. She says different
things at different times according to her
mood. l must ask her when she comes
| in. l think she was swallow. She has
eyes like swallow and the swiftness and
grace of a swallow, and she has the swal-
lows warble-do you know it2 Deep,
low tones, and then higher, head tones.
She herself says she must have been
bird once, because she has that lon ging
for fight"
| "Does she rider"
| enc, but we walk on Riverside Drive
about at hour every morning. She loves
to walk. And-oh yes; she loves the
snow and to SNOWFALL. In the winter
when we took our walks together she
void pick the snow right up with her
gloved hands and throw it at me with
all the fun and frolicsomeness of child.
She is like child-gay, oapricious, low
able. She is in the clouds one minute
and in the depths the next. 1t would be
trying in anyone else, but in her it is
fascinating. She has suoh a tremendous
magnetic force. When she smiles you
would do anything in the world for her.
"And she is good natured too. You
would say so if you knew now many
hundred times she has written Der name
for autograph hunters and how many
photographs she has signed. Oh, those
photographer They are so annoying, for
people send them without ENVELOPES, and
then we have to wrap them mp and lie
them and-oh, dear! 1t is the work of
two people, do assure You just the at
tend to mAdame's CORE 'pondence.
"And then the visitors: People come
on all sorts of pretexts. You would be
astonished If you knew how many girls
come asking Mme. Calve to try their
| vnices We had hree last Sunday You