The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-03-05
IS TETRAzzINI A
SECOND TP!LBY? ALL
NEW YORK ASKS
Twenty Years She Sang in
Public Without Exciting
Great Applause.
NOW HER VOICE THRILLS
Eyes Always Seek Those of Her Man
ager When on stase-He Even
Answers Her Phone and
Opens Mail.
HER VOICE THRILLS

New York, Special: Is Tetrazzini an
other Trilby, and is her manager Sig.
Bazelli, another ~Svengali, who hypno-
ties her as she sings
These questions all of musical New
York is asking.
For 20 years this singer, who as
brought the music lover OF the worlds
two greatest capitals to her feet, sang
in obscurity, one night here and one
night there in different cities i'm differ
emit countries. She was not a great
singer then, she attracted no attention.
And then her manager secured for her
an engagement to sing IN Convent Gar
den, London.
For eight months she rested And
then she walked upon the tag as
one in a dream. and. looking straight
at Sig, Bazelli, she sans as newer wom-
an sang before. Such applause! Such
rapture. Ii II day her fame had
spread throughout London.
She came to New York for the pres
ent season, under contract with Oscar
Hammerstefn to sing with the Man
haitian Opera company. She bust in
brilliance on wondering New Work.
Men of experience n gravity pro
claimed her greater than Patti. and
They asked each other:
who could have wrought these
miracles in the voice of a woman who
sang to o~bscUrity for &c years? Why
did she never sing until she met
Bazelli? Does she only sing her best
now when under his control? And
why is it that only since his reign
over Tetrazzini has she startled the
world?"
Eyes of a ~Svengali.
The mysterious Bazelli, with eyes
black, brilliant, piercing-eyes with
mystery lying deep in them and cum
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through g~lass-faces her each night as
she sings. She is nervous and i'll at
ease as she land i'm the wings await
ing her call. If anyone speaks to her
on the way from her dressing room to-
the wings she is thrown into Il state Of
nervous distress. She seems afraid that
her voice will fail her. She walks out
tiinidly and as she stops her eyes
search the faces in front of her for
that of Bazelli, and then she begins. to.
sing, looking straight into the eyes Of
Bazelli the while.
AT first her voice is like the thin.
peevish trebles of a cross child. and
the lower notes have an automatic
quality like. he. first asthmatic wheeling
of a photograph before it breaks into
the full swing OF tine record. 1t is as
IL she a not Vet come under the
hypnotic spell Of her master. But she
watches him and his eyes, with the
strange hypnotic power, peer into hers.
And then there flows those amazing
high notes which one has described
as the coloratura fireworks that fill.
the listeners mind with visions of fall
ing blossoms; rockets breaking softly in,
a dark sky, silverthroated nightingales.
thrilling rapturousiy in dark woods,
and meadow arlNs rising ecstatically to,
greet the sun.
A Listeners Impressions.
Another tells Of h.eT performance as rnlL
lows:
When she comes on the stage in,
'Rigoletto' or La Traviata' she babbles
on in the prattle and cooling of infancy.
She suggests the vaudeville stage more.
than the dtgniffed land of grand opera.
Then of a sudden comes the change. and
she pours forth TONES golden, ringing. OF
intoxicating beauty.
Look at me in Vhe white of the. ewes
SNengah used to- say to Trilby. And
Tetrazzim looks into the whites Of b.
Zellis eyes as she sings. She leaves. the
stage exhausted and Bazelli goes to, her.
assists almost carries her into a carr
riage. and takes her home. One can read
fly picture Bazeflf saying to her after. ONE
of these sriunphs, as Svengali said to
Trilby.
Sleep my pretty one, and the next she
knows she is in bed. tired unto, death.
quite unconscious of the fact chat she
whose voice had once been laughed at.
ENNe JNoN SNtAe SoASS1l w D.
and jewels had been flung at her feet
in her hearers mad enthusiasm
Sig. Bazelli receives all the. callers az
La Tetrazzini. even though they be her
relatives or TINA friends. He opens
all her letters and answers those tina,
In his estimation are worthy of response.
He answers her telephone and speaks i'm
patient. authoritative English to all in
quirers for the well guarded, hedged about
diva, who six months ago was only known
as a plump and prattling prima donna in
second class musical centefs.
In the early days Of his ascendancv
over the prima donna the man whom
many insist is a Svengall always sang
with her. He sang Romeo and Alfredo.
Faust and all the other parts which fur
nish tenors. love songs and opportunities
to stand close by and gaze into the So
prano's eyes.
Du Maurier, describing S~vengalrs in
f1uence over Trilby, wrote:
and then he turned his attention TO
Trilby and told her-the tone deaf. whose
singing at that time was too funny for
laughter as some things are too sad and
too deep for tears'-and you shall see
nothing, hear nothing, think Of nothing
but svengali, svengali, S%vengali!'
And Tribly shuddered and said:
HE reminds me Of a big, hungry spider.
and makes me feel like a fiy!'