The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-10
WILL STARS CLASH?
Games and CnIve May Make the OPP
cratic Season Exciting-Their His
teric BattIc-They VIII Sing To-
gether for the First Time in Three
Years-Calye's Romantic Career.

son of '96-'S7. This is the yearly signal
for society to discard its horsey clothes
and sporting toys; 10 open its Strong
boxes and lift out it's blazing jewels;
to gown itself in the gorgeous fabrics
from Worth and Felix; for debutari.es
to appear in their first low cut gowns,
and for the multiplicity Of events which
mark the opening of the season in
town.
After these folk, who pay $4,000 or
$4,000 for the pleasure of sitting in a.
box for Is or 20 nights, have arranged
the important preliminarieS of their in
itiai appearance in town they will set
tie down TO wonder about the opera.
And unless all signs fail, it will be a
season of note. In the first place it
viii be the first time in Its history that
grand opera Will be sung in the Met
ropolitan without the supervision of the
Incompatible Abbey, who did more to
bring the musical stars of the earth
TO this country than amy other dozen
men, dead or living.
The particular event which promises
to make the season interesting TO the
public at large. as we'll as to the peo-
pie professionally concerned in opera
matters, VIII be the meeting between
the great Emma Cave ard the scarcely
less great Emma EaTreS. Three years
have passed since these artists ap-
peared simultaneously in the Metropol-
itan company, and when that season
ended the mutual jealousy of I-he two
ladies was so fervid that +. wus pre-
dfcted that they could never be brought
together again.
TEMPERS OF OPPOSITE TYPES.
Operate singers have never been IA
nous for amiability, and Calve and
Games are not EXCEPTIONS II would be
a difficult matter for an umpire to de-
eide which CT the artists excelled in ad-
hesiou to this rule. Calves temper is
of the explosive kind. Her anger blazes
forth with the power of ,Vesuvius in
eruption. Her ire tears along like a
tornado, and is soon spent. Games is
less explosive, but her anger is more
enduring. She had the faculty Of con
verting herself into a lump of animated
petuOuS Calve is a Thing of dread.
Naturally Eames thinks she is the
superior OF Calve, arfistically, and
Calve holds to the opposite belief. The
first round OF this interesting battle
terminated in Eames' favor, too, when
she sang in the Metropolitan in the
season of 1896. Caa-e remained
abroad, for they were both agreed on
one thing, and that WIS that they could
y
cause one would have to play second
fiddle to the other. Calve won tae
second round of the battle, as She
sang here last year and scored a
greater triumph than any operate ar
list since the ballad singing days of
Jenny Lind. Eames sang abroad last
year and won considerable fame.
The third round of the battle is now
about to begin. Both artists have their
ir~a- % ha
with the public, but Eames is the
stronger with the swell folk. In fact,
if the cause OF the trouble between the
artists were sifted down it would be
found that society was at the bottom
Of it Eames has a lofty understanding
Of her social Importance. Calve doesn't
care a rap about social distinctions. She
has a healthy opinion of her own worth
and robust objection to being
1t was said at the time of
the first row between the artists thar
Games ignored the existence of Calve |
IN all social matters, and Calve was
quick to take affront.
CALVES STRONG POSITION.
Calve, 1T seems, should have the best
Of the battle this year. She gets sew
eral hundred dollars a night more than /
Eames, and, moreover, wifi practically |
nave the say about what she will do |
and will not do. Of course she wifi sing |
n Carmen, La Navarraise'' and !
'Cavalleria Rusticana. If she fan |
lies other roles she will probably be |
given them, even if her selection freads |
upon the toes of her rival
Calves life has been a peculiar one.
and in way jUstifies many of her &C.
centricities. She is an extraordinarily |
beautiful woman, with dreamy brown |
eyes, masses of soft black hair and a /
superb figure. She is gorgeous when |
yowned in the habiliments of the con- !
ventional society woman, but when |
clothed in mixture of sashes, kerr |
chiefs, an apron and skirt, all ragged, |
she is ravishing. She is a veritable |
gypsy in inclination as well as looks |
Her father was mountaineer of Alvey |
on, in the south of France. The people |
If that section are different from those |
If the rest of France. Centuries ago
heir ancestors fed to these mountains |
% escape the ravages of the invading |
and their descendants have |
lived there ever since. Calves mother
vas Spanish woman. 1t is the Span |
sh blood in her veins which gives |
alive her pecul- ar power in Carmen
The country around Aveyron is greatly |
beloved by Calve. Two years ago when |
she had amassed considerable fortune |
she returned to it and purchased a |
housdnd-year-old castle called Cabriere
With 500 acres of land This castle was |
he great delight Of her childhood, but |
n her rosieSt dreams she never fancied |
hat she would one day own It,
She was 16 years old when she was
aiken from the. convent to Paris to
study for the lyric stage. Her father
lad died when she was ten, leaving his
widow and two children next to moth
ng- For three years the girl studied, |
Ind finally made her debut in Brussels
n Faust" She was a success as a
singer. but a failure as an actress.
A HIDDEN ROMANCE.
Then Calve fell in love. It was the
irst time and the last. She never talks
Lbout this, but her friends say she will |
never marry. Her love affair did not
prosper; she became i'll and almost died.
She returned to her native home in
Ayeyron. and while she suffered there,
Waiting for renewed health, she studied
Is best she could the art of acting.
,alve says: mo one can be an artist
except through suffering No one can
despair except by feeling it,
md no one can shadow forth love until
owe has taken possession of the heart"
Calve is a Roman Catholic, but her
believes in reincarnation. Previous to
his life she says she was bird. Mime.
I Hardelot, her inseparable companion
md secretary, she declares was former
y a horse, because madame has so
much energy and such great love for
lorSes.
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