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New-York tribune., 1907-09-01
AUDIENCE WITH POPE.
The Simple Ceremony Seen 0y
Protestant Eyes.

Midsummer in Rome is marked by the 1ndlah
file of pedestrians seeking the friendly shade OF Il
wall as they toll slowly up any OF the SEVEN
hiIIs bv the slumbering workmen in retired cor
uers during the heat OF the day: by the skIrtS
added to the awnings over the shops whlch per
rnit passersby to keep the glare while study
ing attractive windows; by the air run Oh "hi'e
runped swallows that keep down the Supply u
1nosouItoes and house flies: by the closed shutters
in fashionable quarters of the town and the scar
citv of fashionable carriages in the streets oy e
laden fruit stalls. upon which every variety seems
TO be ripe ar once-strawberr1es. eurrahts heSpo"'
peaches pears apricots. figs and especiaily cHe'
ries the largest and the blacklist that ever gre"
beside n cottage door.
Father Kennedy, of the American College may
get a summer vacation, but it has not yer pesun'
and it is he who has to crafty or 70 deny the
ardent desire of many American tourists 20 nave
an audience with his holiness. Carriages OF the
one horse hired variety were lined up on either
side Of the college entrance when we drove tEither
the other morning to get our final 'peynlssiohs
and we had to run the gantlet of multitude or
envious eyes. for it was patent to the most su-
perfcaI observer am1ng these fellow courtrY-
women Of ours. still attired in their white shlr'-
waists, Panama hats and automobile veils' that
we had obtained the gracious permission Tor
which some Of them would apply in vain They
had neglected to procure the necessary ietteIS
from bishops other influential Roman Cathoics
before leaving the United States and must no"
tcnCcd to spend only two days in Rome ana 10
devote the half Of of them c an audience
with the Holy Father were bitterly diaap2olh'eo-
What were the ceiling of the Sis'Ee Cha2ci' -ile
corridor of sculpture. the Raphael Stanzl. com
pared to that other part of the Vatican into which
tI,ev desired to penetrate? Michael Angelo may
have been a great man in his day. but it was over
ard Plus Y is still of the greatest powers III
the world \ meeting with him would have sur
feed to place a halo around ones bead all the
rest Of ones life in the eyes Of acquantances of
the faith in Maine kentucky
But we going. were among the ac-
cepted. for were not all arrayed in unusual
black with lace scarfs in lieu Of hats lt Is
possible to rent these at certain stores, but We
had rushed reckessIy in and bought ours-4o cents
cacIr-and had been shown by the courteous
French speaking shopran just how to gather up
the broad centre into bunch for the top OF the
head and to cross the two narrow ends In tront
at the neck one of our quartet. who is in mourn
Ing had pooled her skirts for the beneht OF the
others. and though some had To be shortened anu
others heightened. the tout ensemble was solemn
enough for the occasion.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01

altrimenti 20 non canto ne Don Giovanni. ne Nor
ma. altri. -,
4 80 5 il nese . che IA scrittura porti 20
Amen. cosi sia. II tue SAbNi
l.. 53
fi,, English Dear Max: DO everything to en-
ptce the SIdouia otherwise shall not sing in Don
Giovanni Norma other operas At $50 per
month but let the writing bear $3.50. Amen, and
be it,
cat $50 per month. but let ;he scrtitDru bear
$50" l wonder how many OF my readers think
of this cheap device of singers and managers when
they read about the honoraria received by opera
singers to-dayD Bettini drank 10 excess and spent
,,bola nights in the gambling room. rendering him
unfit for duty ever and anon: Radiali was singu-
LARRY conscientious artist, and became Il
favorite with the public but not with his col
leagues. because Of his extraordinary mearness
and avarice and jealous disposition; Martni was
the greatest living Italian basso. save Lablachc,
but his voice was occasionally unreliable, and he
frequently fl humored, capricious. splcnetic and
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01

cent the half of a name which he gave to his
wife, the contralto Trebei- Bettini, who came 10
New York in Colonel Maplesons first troupe, IN
1873 and also member of Mr.. Abbeys com
panv on the opening of the Metropolitan Opera
House in 1888. Salvi came over with the Havana
company in the spring of 1913, and was one OF
the Ash which Mare;zek took from Martyrs weirs-
If we are to believe the testimony of contempo-
raneous critics he was the greatest tenor of his
time, with the exception of Mario. That was the
opinion OF White whe wrote of him follows IN
The Century Magazine" for May, 1882:
Although Salyi was past his youth when he first
preservation. 1t lacked nothing that is to be ex-
had that mingllng or manlineSs and tenderness oI
human sympathy and seraphic loftiness which. Tor
lack OF any other or better word, We call divine:
IS vocalist re was not in the hrst rank out ne
stood foremost in the second. His presence was
manly and dsnlhed, and he was good actor,
he ca7tivated and moved his audiences He was
heard in America at brief intervals during few
years and ais influence upon the taste OF the gen
eTai r3us:c loving public was very consideraoiie i
ana Ni'oiS So ,Solh5lIS at 49, -'ao
Garden ald othcr h"e places at Which the pIlco
Of admission never more than 81, and was gen
orally 50 cents, he gave to mutitudes VINO woud
otherwise have had no such opportunity That edu-
cation III art which is TO be had only from the per
was unexceptionable lie LACKED only a little higher
finish. a little more hriliaEcy of 'oice and I'M
press1veness Of manner to take a position among
tenoTs of the very n-st rank. OF these. however,
there never two in the world at the same time
scarcely Two in the same generation; and so SaEl
prepared me pupl1c Tor The coming Mario. fils
forte the cantabile and his finest effects were
pressed feeling More than once when he sang
'SpirtO gent,' as he &c the cresCendo of the
away in dying fall / have hea rd whole house
draw suspended breath, il in pain. nearly
alike in their outward manifestation and fine, keen
pleasure.
Such some of the singers whose names
associated in the musical annals of New York with
that of Max Maretzck- II. Z. X
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THE DIFFERENCE OF OPINIONS.

But when Maretzek holding up the heinous-
ness OF Ullmann in the chapter entitled Los
Amercanos su gusto por la Musical Ulmann
was only an agent for Maurice Strakosch who had
eutered the mana geral field II different with
Don Francesca Marty Y rorrens. the impresario
who invaded Maretzek's territory from Havana;
and he remained Maretzeks pet aversion TO the
end of the chapter. In his memoirs Ardu wIo
came TO New York a S conductor of Of Marty's
companies says that Don Francesca among
impresarios the most generous OF men. Maretzels
the cleverest Though he sets down Maurice Grau
as the 'cleverest of intrepreneurs') and Colonel
Mapleson the most astute. il is not unlikely THAI
Arditi's aTniabie opinion OF the Cuban infu-
enced a little by the circumstance that Marty.
not caring 10 make money IN New York, treated
his artists with unusual lberaiity. That. natu-
rally. would not tend 10 Increase the admiration OF
a rival manager for him E+c may have been the
most generous men in eyes OF Arditi but IN
those Of Marctzek he was worse than Barbaja the
Ne2potaI manager who owned the gambling
monopoly in the kingdom of Naples and who. after
anirlating his acquaintances with music and sing
ing and divertng their eyes with the silk heshngs
and short muslin jHpons of HIS dancers. feeced
them at his gambling houses and became richer
than the King of Naples himself. Marctzek inti-
mates that in his youth Don Francesca had been
the mate of 4 pirate vessel which preyed the
commerce of the Gulf of Mexico and adjacent
ters: that he betrayed his captain TO death. and
was rewarded with monopoly OF the fish trade I'm
Cuba: that he became possessed mysterousy OF
enough money 10 III out a fleet of fishing boats 10
supply the market which he controlled: that from
thal source alone mis- annual income rose to about
$4,000 that then he embarked in the slave trade.
bringing negroes from Africa and Indians from
Yucatan. which he bribed the Spanish officials 20
permit him land knighted by the Spanish
Crown out OF gratitude for pecanary help extended
in a crisis; and built opera house in Havana in
order to acquire social position among the proud
people who, despite his badge of nobility refused
20 swallow the fish and digest the negro"
Maretzek puts it. This the manager who In
Tire summer OF 1850. brought New York what
Maretzek charaeterizes the greatest troupe
which had been heard in America" and which
'.n point oe the tpteSral talent. number ard cx-
cellence of the artists composing it, had seldom
been ercelod IN any patt of the Old World"
TliH partr Ssisscd Of three srinse dome Ts1ss>
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01

after his first coming to New York than he did
twenty years later or that he had hired somebody
fluent but malignant Of to put his thoughts into
shape. had long been the fashion for theatrical
managers and opera impresarios to give the his
tory of their administrations TO the world ana
NaTetzek was but following it, though why he
should have done before he had finally and
definitely retired from the field is easy to
II unwise, even a dangerous, thing to do,
for it involved necessity of Cricisng the acts
of professional people and music patrons with
whom a manager was more or less likely TO come
into contact if he expected to continue his enter
prises The style adopted In the book was the
epstoary the chapters being in the form Of letters
European friends Hector Beriioz (with Whom
Maretzek had been brought into connection In Lon
dom, Florentino tan Italian who had been muslcal
critic Of the 'Corsaire'' of Paris Luigi Labache
(the famous basso), Professor Joseph Fischof (of
Vienna) Michael w. Balfe (of London, composer Of
The Bohemian Girl and other English operas)'
Frederick Gye (nanager Of the Royal italian
Opera Covent Garden, London) and Carl Eckert
conductor OF the Court Opera. VIENNA. A final
chapter is addressed TO the public and is devoted
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01
ALL SORTS OF CARE.

We had ptcnty Of time u notice the lapses in
other costumes. party after another
ushered in. a bevy of young girls were all in
white-ves. shoes ard stockings. One woman
had squares Of light gray nor black skirt;
had white gloves. blacl, gloves gloves ali.
but none had low necks o. short sleeves. and rot
hat was visible. We had been tod that evening
dress for was the cor-cc. thing. but not mere
than half of the men presented at jhis tine
attred the rest Wore ordinary business suits
As there was Of persons standing
seated around three sides OF the room were
IN the next cOnleIS SeT-t aCES the
which formed the fourth side o: the room into the
adjoining chamber, ana to the next and tnc
next. There seemed 20 he endless succession
of these chambers of waiting. and the three
hurdred persons presented along with Us We're
lost sight in them. Five bearded Trappist
monks in green colored gowns and sanGalled fect
We're taken further BEN by special permission.
and certain Italian and clerical dignits-iss,
II whom some one in our room set the example OF
rising they passed through
Perhaps the cue was taken from the salutes of
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01
DRAINING SWAMP LANDS.

At an expense OF about $50 an acre. Dan v
Stephens. of Fremont. Ne5., is said TO have
converted go acres of practically worthless
Platte Valley swamp into valuable farm land.
worth. perhaps. S1oO an acre While the food
producing capacity Of the country and its hcHs
manufacture consuming capacity are being en-
larged by irrigation. the gaining of the same
end by the converse process of drainage is not
being neglected The Dismal Swamp OF VIZ
ginia and North Carolina. LOCO square miles IN
extent. has long beer shrinking as part after
part has been drained and turned into the most
fertile of farm land Eventually. the entire area
will be producing crops Minnesota has re-
Gently drained swamp lands belonging 10 ths
state. and the value of the land at once rose
rapidly The state of Florida is largely a swamp
which viii one day he turned into a gardoh
spot Drainage operations are becoming COM
along the Missouri in Nebraska--kansas
City StaE.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01
Chapters Of Ooero.
His Contemporaries and His Singers.

lasted zen years, the fist five of which arc anus
inely described III lis book "Crotchets ard CEiIT-
ers" More than twenty years later he attempted
continue story III a musical jot-Cnai. ana
gathering the disconnected chapters together IS
sued chem in an UI:attractive form uGer the title
Flats aad Sharps." The first roo3I IS, 10 some
extent. contribution nusI&2, history. though its
strong personal equation and its effort 20 be cr-
tertaininG mars its value and influence The IN
preston to which [ have given utterance, that ne
helped in its preparation b. some penny-a-
liner IS based upon the difference between its pages
anG the personal letters which ! received from
aretzek In his later wears especially brief auto
biographical sketch which he prepared Tor me 10
Judge by the evijence of book and sketch the iat-
ter in his OWN handwriting and delivered i'll person.
forced to the CONCLUSION elther 'hat ne
knew more about the English language six years
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01
OPERA SINGERS ENTICED AWAY.

Some OF these names tGUsc of singers "1olh
in lis later days. have said Naretzel< was in the
habt Of chanting while telling them off on ms
fingers His was not the credit Of having brought
tierl TO the country, but he did. year after they
had made their first appearance in the Havana
comnanv succeed in enticing them away from
their generous manager and ensting them under
his banner st 5Le Astor Place Opera House All
but Tedesco.
OF these singers NIaretzek has moro or less to
say in his book but the point of view IS that OF
the manage perpetUally harassed by the je2l-
ousics opportunities ana recacitrancy Of his
singers Sieffan01e wasa conscientious artist. but
had an infirmity of body and mind which was eX-
ceedinCIv troublesome to her manager: Boso was
talented and Industrious but had husband whose
devotion 10 her interests aGiiction TO her
manager: Tcrcaco hus. endless. but had a
father who was 50 concerned about her hOnorarium
that he came to the opera house payday with
a small pair Of scales in his pocket, with which
he verified every coin THAI out of the OK
cheouer of the unfortunate manager. "subjecting
each separate piece of gold TO peculiarly Jewish
examina ton touching their Christian perfection
SaIvi was a mountain oe ConCeit. who believed
himself to he the Louis Quatorze of the lyric
drama and compelled his manager to imagine him
exclaiminC "L'opera c'est moi!' Toward his
manager Salri was despot, who rewarded favorS
bestowed upon himself by compelling the manager
TO engage persons who had served the tenor.
Maretzek cites a u.ase touching singer named
Sidona
Caro- Max: "a d tutto per iscrituEare la Sidoni9'
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01
SOON RETURNED TO NEW YORK.

Not many months had passed before he. too. had
followed Theodore Thomas back TO New York 1
met him in the lobby of the Academy OF Music be-
tween the acts OF the opera IL was in the consul
ship of Mapleson- 'Helloi' greeted him Back
20 New York so soon? What's the matter in Gin
cinnati2"
The QUizzical smile with which he had greeted
me grew wider as he replied sententioUsly:
I'm not a hog. l know when I've got enough,'
Maretzek Was a Hebrew, born III Brinn, Moravia,
and educated in Vienna, where first he studied
medicine but. according TO his story, bccon-
ing diegusted with the sights OF the dissecting
room. he changed his purposes and devoted him
self SO music. lie wrote an opera entitled Ham
set when he was twenty-five years old and A
Sear later. in 1s4s. found himself I'm London en-
Sloyed under Baife al Her Majesty's Theatre
Thence he was brought to New York To conduct
the opera for Mr. K. p Fry. as has already bes,
rnsnuonec. IN issS After one season conductor
- started IN on his as mSnsssr xh.o,
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01
soMETHIaG IN THE WAY OF TEACHING

Maretzek's managerial career continued at least
until s7a after he conducted operas for others
4sd did something toward the last in the way Of
teaching seldom that one could get into
= conversation, with him but he could grow remi-
,iscenf and reverting 10 the olden time, begin
falling OF the members of the companies which ne
had led TO artistic victories and who had helped
rlunge him into financial defeat-"Parodi. and
ss..Tanone and Marfni and Bettini, and Lorini.
f-.d Rer-tucca' and Poor Bertucca! rev
Of those who in later years saw Nine. MaretzeK'
rortlv and sedate enter the orchestra at the Acao
.-rz of Music and Metropolitan Opera House, and
.,e her harp while the audience was gathering IN
,ha plde6 horseshoes above, recalled that she had
see, the sprfghtly and bewitchlng BeFtucca ol
thirty years before .
g, aiscof,rssng on what once was and what might
- t.eea He could be satrical and cutting. but
,su words were generally accompanied with a smile
s5is dominant mood and something OF ms syn Vi
r1n-essiou are illustrated in his Dook Cfotciiet9
..pd ouavers or Revelations OF an opera manager
e. America" which he published IN lSS most o.
.ousIv with the help OF some literary mack "ho'
sn,asane got the thoughts from MaTetzeA' Out sup sup
-,lie.d the literary dress for them A gooo many
n,d SCORES ere paid of in the DOOR, anu . 3 -
e-y s-rudses fed fat; but there are not many IN
..os o4 had nuuaor. There is sugar coatiHs
-,en to his malice. Shortly before Ielt C4icii ~
+i the College Of Music Of that CITY having Sui
800 g serious loss OF prestige because "A 'i1e
..t,o- Of Theodore Thomas. MADE a preIeiilIOUS
..-,ao. Of AZ, operate department, q prac-
,sc.l school for opera, which was 10 De @
S. Msretzek I think 1T was IN the ta4l "a ioo-
-. - -ate II was on the very eve OF my oe-
.--,,ra from Cincinnati for New YORK d@rel@eN
ran,e TO the city somewhat late IN tie fTIiite' ~
=. .,oc,gh called upon him at the bufheI ta0e
-. as heard OF his coming, he was alreaoy
=. - when my card reached him NeVertneie ~
- - s,,ea ,,p 10 his room A tea tray Sun s'oo0
W. w. a.. ..t,e nv the SIDE Of the bed "hen en-
- He held OUT bis hand cordlany anu @po,U
?. -. ~oce,vine me in bed. told him tilal NY
- se- ..Tbe Gazette" wanted TO Know ior '4e
1.a--a5ion OF its readers. what he purposed ooIHs
~ the college The squabble between MT 'i"''laS
- +na college authorities had kept the town III
s.rr,ont for months. all of which Marezeh
,ad "a know 1t was no concern ol MS oUt ne
- 10. help having artistic sympathes OF pis
,s-osItions and these were obviously on the 'Ie
- - ,,,siciau Thomas, who had spht VIII 'Ne
- nanarement Of the college because of
$1,000 in it's methods. There WAS merry
e,,nkle in Maretze's eyes as in reply 10 my Que
- - arswered: II don't know what am going
- Al or what I'm here for They mace me an
serer and / came. I'm told that am 10 iuH an
- chool'. Again he held out his hand at part
g. ard his last words were:
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01

wore the Syno.~ Stefanone. Bosio and Tedesco-
It's only cc1traI:o was the Signora Nietu- 1heTe
were three :onors-Sav1. Rettini and Lorini. Badl-
81 sne Corradi Setti were the two barytones.
while the twc bassi were Mariri and Coletti AT
the lead Of this extraordinary company was the
crcar cortrabassis, Bottesni. assisted by Ardlti
l. would he useless, my old friend. TO attempt 10
fnGicat. to ycu the excellence CT this company
You have long since known their names. or been
avrr% o: their standing as artists III the world OF
music. The greater portion o. them enjoy wide
and veil deserved European reputation, and their
reunion anywhere woU'1 form almost incom-
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01

TO a recital of the troubles through which the
Academy of Iusic passed in the earliest stages OF
its caree. Eckert had been in America as con-
ductor of the company, headed by Henrietta Son
tag. and the chapter which his name Is written
tells of the career of that artist in the United
States and her death in Mexico Incidentally also.
Maretzek pays off score owing TO Bernard III
mann. a manager with whom Maretzek was much
in conflict and against whom he tried to turn the
public by calling the attention of Americans to the
sneers in which the delectable gentleman had In
duIged at their expense while he was trying to
win the good graces of the Havanese- Neverthe-
less within four years he Ulmann6 partner,
for together they opened the of 1859 at the
Academy Of Music. The quarres of opera man
ayers are very like those of lawyers inside the
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01
HER sOBRIQUET WAS "BEAUX YEUX.

In private life Angelina Bosio Nine. Pa
navotis' di Xindavelonis. The wife of Greek gen
tlernan whom she had married in ls1l. She was III
her prime when she came New York. though
she had not reached the meridian Of her reputa-
ton Her features irregular, and she was
NOT co,nely Richard Grant White claims credit
for having given her the punning s"hiiquet BeauX
Yeux'' By which she widely known on account
of her luminous and expressive eyes. Her voice,
says White.
WAS a pure sflvery soprano remarkable alike for
penetrating quality and Tor Its charm so Nte
and delicate that il seemed almost lnteHectuaI.
But she was not a remarkably dramatic singer
even in light comedy parts Whlch best suited ~
and her style was noi az ~ al iry, tho re
suits Intelligent study in the old ltaian school
Cacy of her articulation mas neen SUI pd9su ~ o
modern prima donna not even by ,Aipon. mus
much of her vocal artist; but hef charih was
greatly personal Although ntr acting .t Wa a.
ways appropriate and in good taste ana al umSs-
for example, in the satfy @ wlu"W i "i i'pL, ~
throw, herself wholly into her part She was always
Angelina Rosio. and appeared on the stage IKE
lady performing admirably III private ineatilcals; aus
seemed be a performance. whereas, IL was onII
oneratic composers the admiration of the public
and the critics of the most exactlng dlsposlton'
mn She was greatest In Rossinfs operas, ana IN
PaIlini's and Donizettis. Yet her eXqulsiteIy
charming and finished performance OF Zerlina
should not be passed over unmenuoneo.
,redesco who came to New York with the first
Havana company in April 1871, presented herseir
ia the always susceptible mind Of Mr.. White as
great handsome ox-eyed creature. the picture Of
lazy lovelfness until she excited by music;
then she poured floods. rather gusts. of rich
clear sound She was great artist, but her
voice was so copious and musical that she could
moi be heard without pleasure, although it was not
of the highest kind" Bettini left nothing here
that remained the memory of New Workers
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01

lea what companies 1 gave them-Parodi and
efr.rone ard AIarini and Lorini. and Bettiri and
Be t-,ccs---thow often / had heard him chant the
lis counting of tho singers on his chubby hnEerso
and Trufii and Benedetti. and Salv thought
- melody might remember this and the old man.
..ad ,so1ne and say. MaN, you did a good
- f,- - o,,ce do something for now
! ..iIn-t e2p act them to come and ofIor 1ne the
l.,-,sr Isft rhouSht they might say this and add,
e, ,lc. Eee-u make you head usher, or. You may
have tlse bar. But nobody came, and I'm out Of It
ce.lltl.feI+-f-
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24

E. Eichelberger, a small tract in
Gordon, 5000.
S. z. Smith to Jacob Rhoades,
67 acres in Mississinawa town.
ship, $7O35.
A. ]. Mikesell to r. P. Ben
nett, lot in New Madison, $1S75.
Mayme Tillman and others to
M. l. Grubbs, lot in Arcanum,
$500.
F. j. Amspaugh to |. w. Sto-
yer, small tract in Jackson town.
ship, $1O0.
Mary McCarty to L. H. Croft,
lot in Bradford, $500.