The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-01
CALVES LONGING FOR HOME.
THE SINGER UNLIKE MOST WON
EN- WHO GAIN STAGE SUCCESS.
Singers n Actresses Alike ANXIOUS as n
Rule 10 Draw out Their Careers 10
the UttermOst- Mary Anderson About
The Only Notable Exception Do
nestle Life Does Not Charm Them.

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and unreality of the operate stage upon
which she has won such triumphs causes
no surprise to those who know her aud
have enjoyed her confidence
In spite Of the voice with which she IL
gifted and the success whi,u a1s been hers
In every country that she has o,or sung Ia.
she AYERS that she has been misplaced in
tho scheme Of life and that her real and
only happy field is al home. From the very
first size nas experienced this odd dislike
for her profe sion.
But il is not art that Calvd has no love
for. but the means of It's expression which
it nnds on the stage with the tinscl and the
paint and the Illusion. THIS sho hates and
A., longs 70 be free from.
some time ago when Nine. CalvA was
STAYING in New York she %conyerseG freely
about her l~onginGs for a life in which she
might he free from the slavery in which
! an opera singer must live, slavery not ONLY
to the public and to her managers who
hold her contract, hut also to her voice,
her good looks and tho retcntion Of her
vogue with tie public little matters which
require quite as much attention as tho
| practising 81 the scales. Duse it. the only
woman OF the stage who has been daring
tIlDllEl w bfhN NHio 80 ~"
to her private life and its surorings.
Calves idea Of happiness is to sing, TO
! study, to work. to play. to act when she
chooscs. This is tie dream Of this noun
tain born and mount in-bred child Of n
/ French father and a Spanish mother. Her
childish lunCings for freedom and Tor un-
conventiorality has outlivcd her stage
experiences and her Successes.
IN America and In Europe the singer is
often knovn to disappear suddenly from
her managers and the news that she Is ~
cancels contracts that mean thousands 81
dollars Ia her and To them. She reaches
such n 81 tate Of tension and nervous wcarl-
ness through the eXactions OF the stage
life. its travels and it, inCOnNonicnces, mat
she can escate the torment only by fleeing
10 her own home when she - IN Franc"
or TO some out -of-the-way nook in other
countries.
Her home il IN ancient fcudal castle
in the mountains of France overlooking
the old town Of Aveyron. In tins part oil
the world Calvi was born and her heart
has ever remained singularly faithful to
the place and It's people.
Her father wa n mountaineer' dcscehded
from the ancient Gaul~ and the child who
Inherited the gypSylke beauty OF her
: SPANISH mother grew up among the peas.
ants in an atmosphere OF romance ana
unrealiiY that was n fairy land 10 hrr'
but a fairy land Of nature and not OF the
| theatre.
This district Of France abounds in pictur-
esdur old castles that still stand amid the
mountaiIs with inoat and turret ana draw
bridge and dungeon, ike the tcIdal halls
of Sir Walter SCOTS poems, A. a chld
! she wandered among them and woNe viva
! imaginative roInanCeS about them.
one castle. Cabribre, that stood highest
Of all. she loved the best and when she
had earned enough money with her voice
she went back to Aveyron and bought
F,l,t.t-, md SO 1rTR- of land MS Is
the HON she dreamed Of in her childish
ftncics and this il the home she possesses
now end dreams of when she tires OF her
life behind The footlights.
A. "A child she went 10 a convent school
with the nuns Of Auriac and she was but
10 when her father died, leaving a little
family not over well provided Tor. she
was singing one day in the convent chapel
when "A Paris musician heard her voice ana
spoke to her mother of is quality, saving
/ Tat she should hc sent to Paris to study
Even then. Calve felt an instructive
+ disl ko for the idea Of leaving her home.
Shc was harry ard content ii'r Nv" m
tho mountains was the If" 'al" loved and
she h.- never found any other that has
boon 'hc same to her.
,alvc saws that Fn'" has always mas
tered her She went 60 Paris and studied
vltl Ianurd and Narcn">l. Sh" pinned
/ C'ir "a. l,rt, she had loft amt fclt a- though
I Tine citv were "A cag" Then she made" her
dor In Brussels a. hdrggCrie with sue
/ ,,--. and wa- engaged by Maurrl Ia create
+ tine raI, ui Bduo1, and also sang with nm
al f.r Dp,ia Cuuiqu" "a Paris
A. M. lime talv" rays that while h"r
voice wa. good her acting wa- amat"nri-h
and cold She was but 10 and IN" was
Z most unhappy. Her sucCr- had brought
With D. much suffering Size became very
: Do and went back Co ga" ~nHuuialn- 10 re-
I rafi Nor hrn'tl " sl-. fu doe
A. fri. time -hr became deeply Interested
Do the works 81 Ballic He ups had a great