Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-14
MANY ARTISTS ARRIVE
GUARD ON THE KAISER
WILHELM II.
Geraldine Farrar and Her Diamond
shoes-Members Of the Diplo-
matte Corps Return.

A dispatch from New York says two rival
impresarios met yesterday morning on the
dock Of the North German Lloyd to meet
the Kaiser Wilhelm II. OneL~ds Heinrich
Conried and the other Oscar Hammerstein
Oscar paced up and down the pier, wearing
silk hat of majestic proportions and
graceful curves With a cane in his hand
and a glossy black overcoat that measured
at least four feet across the shoulders Oscar
was a sight that attracted all eyes, Mr..
Conried had more Of his artists on board
the steamer. but four Of the newcomers are
under contract with Mr.. Hammerstein.
For the company of the Metropolitan
came Geraldine Farrar, Celestina Bonin-
segna. Ricardo Stracciari, Carl Burrian
and Charles Rousseliere, who are new to
this this, country. Enrico Caruso Antonio
Van Rooy y's and Adolf Muehlmann mann are e old
friends. Caruso, who has been singing in
Europe during most of the time since he
left this country, had in his left buttonhole
the red ribbon of the Legion of Honor,
which the French government gave him
last month
Bessie ABBOTT brought back with her two
paintings and two dogs. She paid duty on
the dogs, but the works of art were adj
mitted free. Bella Alien said she had come
back to sing for the last time in this coun-
try. After this season she will remain In
Germany.
Interest in Miss Farrar.
1t was in Geraldine Farrar, however, that
the interest of the operate party lay. Eight
years ago she left this country with plaits
hanging down her back and her skirts to
her shoe tops. Yesterday she returned to
her own country, the most praised Ameri-
can singer ever heard in Europe She has
been for six years a member of the COM
the Roval Onera n Ror1in
and is still member of the personnel of
that theater, although she Is here under a
three years contract with Mr.. Conried. She
is described as being on leave Of absence.
my father and mother" she said last
night at the New Netherland Hotel, have
been with me ever since went to Europe.
They know more Of the stories that have
been cabled to this country about me than
do, for they read them. I never had the
time to. When 1 was said to be the VIC
tim of intrigue at the Berlin Opera House
1 never had the time to realize whether 1
was or not.
Perhaps while I was a beginner at
Berlin the feeling of my colleagues was
against me. Possibly some Of the dis
agreeable things that were said and done
did come from envy of foreigner I
never had the time to find out. 1t Is only
now. when l have come back to my own
country, that l realize how all that labor
has really made a name of some kind for
me. and 1 have returned rather person.
age
Miss Farrar's sojourn in Germany has
given her a trace of accent which shows
itself more in her emphasized consonants
than anything else. She is now twenty
four, girlish in figure. dark eyed and with
a very expressive face Her teeth are
white and her large mouth strong and
shapely. She Is a typical American girl
of the early twenties. self-possessed, well
poised and keenly intelligent.
Germans Say Strange Things.
1.-THE Germans have always delighted in
saying strange things about me- she said,
land my father, who came over here in the
summer, said to me at the dock this morn
ing: What was that story about your
wearing diamond shoes as Marguerite and
a pompadour a foot high when you sang
the last time? That happened because
the shoes had ordered from Paris did not
arrive in time. / wore a pale gray dress
and the shoes were to match. l had none
of the same color except a pair of suede
slippers with small diamond buckles. i had
no idea they would show below my skirt,
and rather than wear red or brown slip
pers I put those on. I brushed my hair
straight back from my forehead and
crossed the plaits on top of my head in
stead Of allowing them to hang down my
back. AS wore no other Jewels the two
buckles shone like headlights on an engine.
This simple incident started the stories of
my high pompadour and the slippers of dia-
monds. believe in making oneself attrac-
tive in the first place above everything else.
A costume should first be beautiful. They
were very good to me about that in Berlin,
and 1 was always allowed to wear my own
dresses instead of the costumes which are
provided by the theater
Such vivacity Miss Farrar's might
well have turned the heads of the Berlin
audiences. who are not accustomed to see in
their theaters such slender and beautiful
women. It was in the youthful repertoire
such as Elsa, Juliette-in which she will
first appear here-Elisabet and Zerlina
that she won her great successes.
The young prima donna wants all her
fellow countrywomen to go to Germany to
study. That Is much better country
for them than France or Italy," she says,
musical in the world. The girl who sue
ceeds in pleasing them will be able to please
any other country. l went first to Paris.
There 1 suddenly realized that was not
getting what 1 wanted and went to Lilli
Lehman in Berlin. That is the place for
American girls to start
Stress Of Weather.
The group Of opera singers on the North
German Lloyd speeder Kaiser Wilhelm II,
In yesterday from Bremen, Southampton
and Cherbourg, were unble to use their
pipes because Of stress of weather on Mon
day night, so there was no concert. There
was not a single day on the trip that the
seas were not slapping the liner, on
quarters or bows, and the attendance at
meals Of the $40 first and second cabin
passengers was meager. The ship made a
fine run, because the gales and seas were
mostly astern. kicking her a'ong, and her
average hourly speed was 22.57 knots
Among her passengers. outside the
operate talent, We're Baron Mayor DIES
Planches, Italian ambassador at Washing
ton; Gregoire de Wollan, Russian minister
at Washington; Henry White. American
ambassador to Italy; Fred TaraI, the
Jockey; Mrs. Henry Clews, Frank Tilford,
Lieut. Col Talbot M
William English Walling. William r. Der.
ry, Countess Telfener. 8. b. Elkins. Freder-
ick P Washburn and Prof. Richard Bar
thelemy.
Ambassador White will spend three
weeks with his folks at Rutherford. N =
and will have long talk with the Presi,
dent on the latter's return from Panama.