Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-07
.CALVE IS TO SING
HERE IN THE FALL
ENGAGED FOR NEW YORK 0P-
ERA SEASON
Hammersteln Laughs When He Hears
the Latest Rumor That She Is to
Marry-To Bring Mary
Garden Over
Special Gable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald
PARIS, July Oscar Hammerstein
laughed when he was told Of the latest
report that Nine. Calve is to marry.
"She is engaged to sing for me in New
York in September" he remarked. Be
yond that have no interest in what
she does"
1t was suggested that she must be
very capricious.
Mr.. Hammerstein blew q cloud of
cigar smoke into the air and observed
sententiously:
"She is a prima DONNA"
Isidor Lara, who wrote Nall for
Calve, would not admit that Calve had
written to him asking to be relieved
from all contracts on account of her
approaching marriage, but said:
Marriage is a part of Calves stage
effects
Nobody has ever seen her fiance.
All that is known of him is that he Is
not Eugene Higgins. Calves retirement
would be an irreparable loss. No one
else could create the part of the AL
gerian woman Nail like Calve. The
opera was written expressly for her.
Jules Bois, former reputed fiance OF
Calve, wrote the story of the opera
with Calve in view. In fact Calve
selected Bois herself. 1 believe she is
now at the height of her powers, but
she is more a child of nature than other
opera singers"
Mary Garden, Too
Mr.. Hammerstein considers Mary
Garden now the greatest Of all living
singers, and he added:
"She is still growing good. Voices
are as common as blackberries, but
great singers are very rare because
IL of foy nfq emf
and magnetism that cannot be taught
So saying, Mr.. Hammerstein reclined
in his chair, enjoying the fragrance of
his cigar with the air of man having
no more worlds to conquer-that is, no
more stars to engage.
Two other theatrical managers have
had a successful time in Paris.
Alfred Aarons, who has been making
the Continental hotel his headquarters,
has secured a number of up-to-date
French songs, which he will rearrange
and adapt to American audiences. He
has been assiduous in attendance upon
the small artistic taverns in the Mont
martre district and has picked up there
many new things.
Charles Frohman has been back and
forth between Paris and London In the
last few weeks. He is going to nave
new theater in New York, which is
being built for him, and he will pro-
duce in New York a number of bright,
audacious one-act French plays of the
style of those of the famous little
theater Grand Guignol, which We're
written for him by younger lights OF
somewhat decadent but veritable gem
| ius.
Maude Adams to Paris
Mr. Frohman will star Maude Adams
in Paris. This will be something like
an experiment, but the American coli
ony is now large enough to make her
success, while the French public,
tired of it's own brilliancies, will be
glad to see the styles of other coun-
tries, even when the acting and the
construction of the plays would meet
with no approval with French repre-
sentatives.
olga Nethersole, for example. drew
large audiences, containing many
French people who could not follow
her English, but were delighted with
the broad, strong effects Of her play.
"Raffles" also has had great success.
Paris looked on it as mechanically
constructed play, but was charmed with
1t as an example of the modern Eng
lish school of the drama, so different
from their own.