The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-24

course of life. Mile. Calve bought house
in Paris. The clairvoyant told her she
would die if she remained in it. The
singer sold it within a month at a price
much smaller than she had paid for it.
Mile. Calve accepted an offer to sing at
Coyent Garden in London several times.
The clairvoyant told her that the boat
would be wrecked while crossing the
channel, and Mile. Calve Immediately tel
egraphed to London that she could not
under any circumstances keep her en-
gagement. This same clairvoyant who
for a short time played such an active
part in Mile. Calves life, not long ago
took to prophecying so many calamities
for French government officers that she
was silenced by the police. Mile Calves
career has now lasted nearly twenty
years, as she began to sing in the first
year of the eighties at Brussels.
AS interesting in quite different way
as the famous Carmen is Milka Ternina,
who has been the dominating figure
among the women at the Metropolitan
Opera House this year. Nile. Ternina has
the same right to the title that the French
singer possesses. Her second year on the
stage was passed at Bremen, where Anton
Seidl was conductor. So the soprano
learned her Wagner traditions under the
last of the masters who could impart
them with the authority that came from
personal association with the great COM
poser. Mile. Ternina is noted among her
associates for the modesty and unpre-
tentionesses of her conduct She never
exhibits to men the least evidence of
knowledge that she has become within the
past three years the most noted Wayne
rian singer of the word. There never
was a prima-donna who gave less evil
dence Of possessing the traits commonly
attributed to the class. Mile. Ternino at
tends rehearsalS with the assiduity of a
beginner, and more than any other singer
since Lilli Lehman, thinks not onlys of
herself, but of the general effect for
which all the artists in a performance are
struggling. That used to be called the
German spirit until American audiences
learned that it existed in all artistic per-
formances of opera, whatever the nation
atty of the singer might be. Mile. Ter
nina is always accompanied by her aunt,
venerable dame, with white hair. who
carries herself with sufficient dignity to
give color to the story that her husband
was a man of such position in his own
country that she is entitled to can herself
''Exceilency." Mile. Ternina shows in her
serious expression (Which in private life
sometimes amounts to a frown) the dig
nifed bearing and earnest manner which
have made her stage career what 1t is
She is not beautiful, but everybody who
meets her feels the influence of a dominat-
ing personality.
seriousness seems to be a trait of the
Wagnerian prima-donna Lilli Lehman
never possessed the beast sense of humor.
although her mental equipment was I'M
usual for woman In her profession.
Nine. Nordica has this determination that
Is shared by her colleagues in the Wag-
merriam field. She won her way through
the resolution not to be left among the
mediocrities of her profession and she
emerged brilliantly after years OF disap-
pointment. She is the American singer
who will probably be ranked for some
years as the best that the nation has
known She is stu a student and deyotes
much Of her time 10 developing the roles
IN which she has frequently been heard
She goes through every role she sings
the day before the performance, ana FREE
quently renews her acquaintance with
operas that she has not sung for years.
She ~ more devoted 10 the social pleasures
that come 10 an OF the singers than some
Of her colleagues ana goes 20 many Of the
entertainments IN the round OF New
York'a winter Raities
Ia that particular she is like Nme.
Media, who a. much sought after par.
sou in London society. ana has more
friends among the exclusive memlars Of
the stockholders ~ the METROPOLITAN than
any other sinv@. OUTSIDE ~ he Inca.
ief her time is chiefly spent in soAety.
She has a house IA London, where she