Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-31
MADAM GADSKYS
HOME IN BERLIN
Striking Contrast Between the
Prima Donna on and OF
The Stage.
SHE IS AN IDEAL HOSTESS.
Delights in Dispensing Hospitality and
In Pleasing Her Friends
What She Does.

Special Correspondence.
n ERLIN, March 21-- Madame Jo-
X hanna Gadsld, I'm the past eight
ID years. has become SO closely
connected with the musical life
Of America through her frequent APP
pearauces In concert ana opera---that
most people, in attempting to give her
local habtatlon" are inclined to
count her as distinctly an American
singer as Nordlca or Eamcs. This im-
preston is perhaps strengthened by
the fact that her husband, Hans Taus-
cher, Is the American representative
OF large German mercantile enter
prise and Is consequently closely iden-
tilted with American business interests.
But while both are ardent admirers
OF America and Americans their Ger
man Fatherland has still the stronger
claim upon them, and the close OF tho
musical and business season finds them
established IN their beautiful Berlin
home on the fashionable kurfuersten
Damn,
HER BERLIN MANSION.
This Berlin mansion where Nine.
Gadski has set up her Lares and PEN
ates Is Il fitting frame for the artistic
personality OF the great singer. Here,
however, II is not so much the artist
as the woman whom one comes to
know best, There Is no intervening
impersonation Of an Elsa an Eva. or a
Brunnhildo to remove her from our
workaday world into the elusive one
Of legends and medieval lore. Here
one catches intimate revelations OF tho
eternal feminine. Nine. GadsM on the
stage is for the nonce the character
she is impersonatlng, be it the In
trigued-against Elsa, the enamored
Eva. the superstitious Senta or the
banned Brunnhilde, but In real life shs
IS a woman whose chief characteristic
Is an Irresistible charm Of youthful
ness, which is not 80 much a matter
of years as Of temperament. Certain
words associate themselves INSOFAR
ably with certain people. and Nine.
Gadskl with her irrepresslble naivete
always suggests Brownlng's 10y OF
Living
FAD AND FANCY.
Here in her Berlin home, surrounds
ed by everything that art can devise,
or money buy her womanly instincts
hold full sway. Every fad and fancy
can be INDUCED IN and she gives her.
self up to the beautiful task OF home.
making. She is an ideal hostess and
her home breathes hospitality. II is a
genuine welcome, too, which Is bound-
ed by no feeling OF reciprocity, and
which carries with 1t no suggestion of
the give-and-take principle upon
which modern society rears its arti-
fetal structure. Particularly to Ameri-
cans IS this hospitality extended, so
that n facedous German woman was
led 20 suggest that placard DO put
up stating German also spoken here"
In spite Of Gadski's Polish nama
Germany is the land OF her birth and
she has ell the instincts Of the German
Hausfrau, and Is never happier than
when ordering dinner or looking
after the material wants u
her family be it even In the
humble capacity OF purveyor
of the winter hosiery. She 10
extremely practical and one looks In
vain FOR the traditional trademark OF
the prima- donna She IL adored alike
by her family. friends and serving peo-
pie, 10 all OF whom she shows the same
lovable, gracious and sunny nature.
She is generous 10 a fault and suffers
the penalty Of all big-hearted. OPEN
handed people IN having her generos-
ity often imposed upon. Many an
American girl owes an opportunity for
European study TO her. and ingratis
tude, broken faith and disappointing
denouenents have too often been this
only harvest Gadsld has reaped from
her philauthropic impulses.
PROUD Oh HER TRIUMPHs.
She is proud OF her own artistic tri-
umphs, but not because OF them. and
speaks quite unaftectedly OF her day
OF small beginnings one day while
on the way 90 look at a brooch which
she had ordered she naiyely remarked
This JeWeler Is q very clever work.
man. When / first went on the stage
he lngeniously contrived my few gems
So that they were transferable and
could do service In different orna-
ments Now It IS not necessary foY
me % do that any more"
Her keenest delight. however, is in
her home FOR which she has planned
and designed every piece OF furnitrua
every hanging, which forms & TANGIBLE
expression of her artistic love OF the
beautiful This past summer she has
taken the greatest pleasure In tho ra-
arrangement OF q spacious hall which
has been entirely fitted out with fur
nlshlugs OF the Italian Renaissance
period. massive fireplace which
suggests the home OF the Capulsts
curiously-caryed cupboards, high
backed picture chairs. rich wainscoat-
ms and hansings OF dun old Italian
enbroideries, make a spot which one
Is loath In leave. even to explore the
other fascinating corners OF the house.
AMERICAN INFLUENCE.
Everywhere are felt traces OF Ameri-
can influence. nowhere perhaps more
strongly than in her husbands den.
which IS rich In Indian baskets. rugs
ana weapons. wonderful embroidered
screens from tho Chinese quarter OF
san Francisco, the whole forming a
delightful cosy corner Tor the newt
able atter-dinner cigar OF the guests
With whom this hospitabls room Is al
ways filled. Here we we're assembled
one day when We We're startled by
bood-curdliug shrek suggesting only
IRE or murder, but which as II drew
nearer developed Into cry OF 10y with
which Nine. Gadski was heraldlng the
recovery OF a lost brooch OF psarls and
diamonds. The banterinR alluslon 70