The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-08-18
TWO KINDS OF SUCCESS.
Boston Girls Singing Brought Her
Friends in Italy and Rich Husband
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Boston Girls Singing Brought Her
Friends in Italy and Rich Husband
From the New York Journal.
Boston, became engaged by ca
bic and am ready 70 marry by cable /
IL Il should be Necessary" Such Is |
the announcement Just made public |
here from Paris By Miss Harriet God
dard. 3 Boston girl She left the
United States with little but beauty
and promising voice. She has gain
ed with these a place among the high
est musical circles OF Europe; she
| has won a title OF lovelsness in a city
where all are reputed beautiful and
as a climax she has received a propo-
sal Of marriage by cable from man
OF millions. who. By the way. cut out
an Italian count
Il was in Naples about six months
ago that Mr.. Wood met Miss Goddard
1 She had Just made her debut In opera
in the role OF Elsa in Wagner's
'Lohengrin.@ in the Municipal opera
| house in Modena. and music loving
Italians had taken her up with all
| the enthusiasm that Is native to Tus-
1 cany. They came with flowers and at
| tentions and any other but the SEN
sible. even II talented. American girl
i would have had her head turned round
completely.
Just at that time Mr. Wood appear
cd on the scene and he and the song
stress became great friends.
| He is rich, stalwart and a lover
of the art to which Miss Goddard
has devoted her life. Miss Goddard's
| sister, in Dorchester. and her father.
who is az present on a vacation to
| Sydney. y. s.. have just received
word OF the engagement.
Before Miss Goddard and her moth
er. who is chaperoning her. left Italy
pressing business matters called Mr..
Wood Of Honolulu.
Miss Goddard had been IN Italy for
some two years or more. and. while
she became known as young woman
Of the most promising voice some time
ago. IL was not until her debut at the
Modena theater that musical people
1 realized that in her vocal art had
| gained distinctly a new possession
She had been under the instruction OF
Maestro Vannini. a famous Italian
1 teacher. for nearly all the time she
had been abroad. and as she became
| more and more skilled, approaches
| about her debut began to come from
| ali sides. She was asked 10 appear IL
| Messina in Aida" as the leading so
, | prano. as Asti in "Pagliacci," and II
! ! Andre Chenier;" at Nome in Trio
) | vatore." at Venice in Tristan an(
/ | Isolde" and in other operas in otbei
italian cities. But on the advice O
: her instructor she chose to accept ar
: | offer to sing the part of Elsa in ''Lo
: hengrin." for which her physical and
facial beauty so well suited her She
/ | appeared in this part in the Modem,
j. opera house on February last anC
the following day the papers wer'
= ! unanimous in her praise.
Il II was the enthusiasm stirred VI
:. by her success in this Performance,
= and by those that followed it tina
e made Miss Goddard so we'll known
J. figure in Modena. in Naples. and il
! fact in all musical Italy Then tn
S | counts came and each dreamed of con
= | quering until the American appeared
Miss Harriet Goddard is the daugn
: ter of Mr.. and Mrs Clifford w. God
/ dard. and was born in Chelsea.
She sang in the ehoirs Of differen
: churches in Boston, Newton. Cam
e bridge and Worcester. and finally be
e came the leading soprano In the Cor
s gregational church at Randolph
was while she was singing at this las
: church that her father suffered bus
9 ness reyerses. and she began to TAX
up concert work. She was one OF tn
/ prime movers in the organizing G
the Boston 0peretta company.
Il was about this time that Mr.. Ebe
: D. Jordan became interested in hei
and upon being assured of the tho
rough worth of her voice. proposed {
: send her and her mother abroad tina
: she might complete her musical eju
: cation For a time she demurres
: but at length the desire for the il
= struction that is only to be obtaine
abroad persuaded her to go.