Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-12
CALVE THE CARMEN
OF ALL CARMENS.
The Famous French Cantatrice
Comes to Sing in the City
OF the Saints"
SPECIAL CAR ARRIVES TODAY.
Viii Appear nj Tabernacle Tonight
Something az Her I.ifc--Nl>its
\ Mormon Country Home.

Petite capHclous. syark.mg.eye1
raycn-daircd, astrological ana horosco-
pic Emma Boqpcr, known o fame and
the musical world as Mile Calve the
cantstrice over whom two continents
have been rarmg for years. arrived Iu
the City Of the Saints this morning and
Will sing IN the Tabernacle tonight
Her coming has been heraddcd FOR
weeks. and soon salt lakers VIII be
able to compare her win other inter-
national queens Of song that have pre-
ceded her
Calye is said to be the greatest Car
men OF the age, and Americans ara
specially wont TO measure al other
singers IN that role by her standard,
just az they measure all Hamlets by
Booth Bur IT. win be in concert and
not IN opera that we Viii hear her.
The life story OF this European night
ingale Is an enhancing one, but cam
not be recOunted in news chronicle
such as this Mile Calvo is fair and
40, but no, fat. She is in the full bloom
Of fascinating II not beautiful woman
hood. Her father was a Spaniard, her
mother French woman From tho
former she Inherited all of the graces
that child OF CASTLE may expect from
courtly sire, from her mother the
caprice, polish and manner of daugh-
ter OF sunny France
SENT TO A CONVENT.
In early life Emma was sent to
convent, and Il was while in one of
these institutions that her musical in
clinations were first manifest. Morning,
noon and night she was constantly
humming Ave Marias" that marked
her as a child ot destiny In the world of
divine art. Just as she was giving
much promise her father died. and she
was sent to Paris, that famed center
OF attraction towards which all of the
youth of France drift at some time or
other in their careers, whether paupers,
peasants or princes, II was In 1881 that
she made her debut. The place was
Brussels and the character was Mar
guerite I'm Faust" She created a sem
sation, the news OF which was soon
flashed over all Europe.
HAS SUNG IN MANY LANDS.
Since then Calve has enacted many
operate roles In many lands. and al
ways with more or less triumph accom-
panying her work. She has visited the
United States five times and has APP
peared al the Metropolitan In New
York several seasons However. she
Is now at outs with Conried. whom she
denounces as a mere moneymaker.
Conried has another story to tell. but
It Will not be given IN the News to-
day.
Mascagni music Is much liked by the
prima donna though Wagner Is her
favorlte composer.
BELIEVES IN MASCOTS.
Mile. Calve Is deeply superstitious
She believes implicitly in mascots and
their power white present and thinks
much Of the evil consequences that
their absence might carry. She would
regard as something much to be dread
ed an appearance in public without a
certain Hindoosts n amulet that she de-
clares BODIES good for her at all times.
She is an ardent student Of astroogy
and attaches much Importance to the
mysteries the reading Of her horoscope
is thought to disclose.
TO HER VERY TOME.
She has carried the element of mys-
terry 10 her very tomb which has al
ready been designed under her own
direction ON the one side Is pictured
the unfortunate Ophelia, one of her
faVorite characters, and on the other
Carmen the capriclous and ungoYern-
able, out of whose memory she has alb
sorbed 80 much. The former represents
the ethereal and hopeful the latter
the material and earthly. She SAYS they
are both tragic but that life Is not
comedy anyway.
LOVES THE PEASANTS.
When at home Culve lives in the
south of France where she has a splen-
did castle. IL Is In a peasant country
and the plain people are said TO he very
fond OF her, and she OF them. She likes
to visit them in their homes and sing
for them. Sometimes she will sing to
them from the great masters but more
frequently It viii be a little simple folk
lore composition with which they are
familiar.
VISITS MORMON" HOME
Her love for meeting country folk
a; their homes was demonstrated at
Bountlful yesterday where her car was
sldetracked for the DAY. when with a
couple OF her maids, she visited a num-
Der or farm houses and walked through
the town. She called at one cottage
a typical Mormon" country home
aud asked to buy some chickens and
eggs The lady OF the house unac-
customed 20 seeing q woman as hand
scmely gowned as Mile. inquired who
she Wa and was much surprised 70
learn that II was none other than Calve,
the famous singer,
When the eggs and chickens were Sc
cured Calve Sat her self at the family
piano ana sang two or three simple
selections ln manner that was
strangely and unexpectedly beautiful.
The visit was orc that win long be re-
membered by the good lady of the
house who firmly refused to accept
money for her produce. accounting her.
self already Well paid for what she had
given.
The choirs part ~ tonights concert
WIN be the rendering OF the Soldiers
chorus from Faust Tie opening
D. sal 4.