The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-14
GERALDINE RARRAR RETURNS.
AMERICAN SINGER VINO HAS
NON FAME IN GERMAN.
Coprled and Hanmerstem At the Dock 10
Meet Their song Birds -CarusO Happy
IN HIs Legion Of Honor RibbOn-Her
last Time Here. says Bella Alten.

Two rival impresarios met yesterday
,orning on the lock of the North German
How'd TO meet the Kaiser Wilhelm IL. One
cas- Heinrich Conried and the other Oscar
uammerstein. Oscar paced up and down
the per, wearing a silk hat OF majestic
proportions and graceful curves. With
a cane In his hand and a glossy black
oyercoat that measured at least four feet
across the shoulders Oscar was q sight
that attracted all eyes. Mr.. Conried ha d
more Of his al fists on board the steamer.
hp. four OF the newcomers are under con-
tract with Mr., Hammerstein.
For the mpan OF tho Metropolitan
came Geraldine Farrar, Celestina Bonin-
seena. Ricardo Stracciari, Carl Burrian
and Charles Rousseliere, who are new to this
country. Enrico Caruso, Antonio Scotti,
BESSIE ABBOTT, Bella Alien, Anton Van Rooy
and Adolf Muehlmann are 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 a him last
month.
Bessie ABBOTT brought back with her
TWO paintings IN JWO oOkNs cnb PoN
duty on the dogs, but the works OF art
we're admitted free. Bella Alien said she
had come back to sing for the last time
in this country. After this season she
will remain in Germany.
II 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 n her skirts TO
her shoe tops. Yesterday she returned to
her own country, the most praised American
singer ever heard in Europe. She has been
for six years a member OF the company at
the Royal Opera House in Berlin and lie still
a member OF the personnel of that theatre,
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 told The
Sun reporter last night at the New Neither
land Hotel, have been with me ever since
went to Europe. They know more of the
stories that have been cabled to this ooun-
tn about me than l do, for they read them.
never had the time to. When l was said
10 he the victim of intrigue at the Berlin
Opera House l never had the time to realize
WEATHER l Was or not.
Perhaps while l 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 a foreigner.
never had the time to find out. It il only
now, when I ave come back to my own
really made a name OF some kind for me, and
have returned rather a parsonage"
Miss Farrar's sojourn in Germany has
given her a trace OF accent " hich shows it,
self more in her emphasi sed consonants
than anything else. She is now "a, girlish
in figure, dark eyed and with a very Ok
~pressive face. Her teeth are white and her
large mouth strong end shapely. She is a
typical American girl Of the early twenties,
self-possessed, well poised and keenly in
t~elliGent.
The Germans ha ~ always delighted in
saying strange things about me- she said,
'and my father, who came over here in the
summer. said to me at the dock this morn
ing: What was that story about your wear
ing diamond shoes as Marguerite aud a POM
padour a foot high when you sang the last
timer That happened because the shoes
! had ordered from Paris did not arrive in
time, l wore a pale gray dress n the
shoes were to match. | had none OF the
same color except a pair Of suede slippers
with small diamond buckles. | had no idea
they would show below my skirt, and rather
than wear red or brown slippers l put those
on. l brushed my hair straight back from
my forehead and crossed the plaits on top
Of my head instead of allowing them TO
hang down my back. As l wore no other
Jewels the two buckles shone like head
lights on an engine. This simple incident
started the stories Of my high pompadour
and the slippers of diamonds. / believe in
making oneself attractive in the first
place above everything else. A costume
should first be beautiful. They were very
good TO me about that in Berlin, and l was
always allowed to wear my W dresses
instead OF the costumes which are pro-
vided by the theatre"
Such vivacity as Miss Farrar's might well
have turned the heads of the Berlin audi
ences. who are not accustomed to see in
their theatres such slender and beautiful
women. 1t was in the youthful repertoire
such as Elsa, JUhette-in which she will
first appear here-Eisdbeh and ZerLind
that she won her great successes.
The young prima donna wants all her
fellow countrywomen to go to Germany
70 study. ~That is a much better country
tor them than France OF Italy, y she says,
because German audiences are the most
ceeds in pleasing them will he able to please
any other country. ! went first to Paris.
There | suddenly realized that 1 was not
getting what l wanted and went 70 LLli
Lehman in Berlin. That rs the place for
American girls TO start.
CleOfonte ~Campanini, the conductor for
the new Manhattan Opera House, arrived
on the Kaiser. M so did Charles Dalmores,
the new French tenor for the same theatre.
Pauline Donalda, the Canadian soprano
who has recently been so successful in
London, with her husband, Paolo Seveilhac,
was a passenger on the same steamer.
FefOre singing with Mr.. Hammerstein
Nine. Donalda will give concerts in Montreal
and other Canadian cities.
Aboard the Friedrich der Crosse from
Bremen were the Metropolitan opera
singers, Otto Goritz, Albert Reiss and Franz
Steiner, the Hungarian lyric barytone,
whose pretty young wife told in viyacious
broken English the things he expected TO do
IN New York. She said he never had ap-
peared in grand opera and hat he was a
discovery Of Herr Conried. He IL young,
under the average height and ambitious to
sing tall parts. he owns several farms in
Hungary. maintains a racing stable n
breeds stock.
The group Of opera singers on the North
German Lloyd speeder, Kaiser Wilhelm ii.
In Yesterday from Bremen, Southampton
and Cherbourg, were unable to use their
pipes because u stress Of weather on Mon
day night, so there was no concert. There
was not a single day on the trip that the
seas we're not slapping the liner, on quarters
or bows, and the attendance at meals Of
the SO first and second cabin passengers
vas meagre. The ship made a fine run,
because the gales and yeas were mostly
astern, kicking her along, and her average
nourly speed was 22.67 knots.
Among her passengers, outside the
operatic talent, we're Baron Mayor des
Planches, Italian Ambassador at WASH