Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-12
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counts. When I first started on my
tours 1 called my manager to account.
And am l then to have no privacy?
demanded. L can see no reason why
my private life and affairs should be
discussed.
"The reply that I received from Mr..
Frohman overwhelmed me- You have
no private life he said, but 1 think Mr..
Frohman wanted to prepare me for the
worst by letting me know little more
than the actual worst.
1.-The Countess Czaky-Szell herself does
not think she has done anything Mt all
out of the way in marrying the young
Bohemian vlolinlst. She thinks she has
fulfilled a prophecy made to her once by
Planchette. tnat she would marry king.
The king of violinists is what she thinks
her husband to be.
"At party Of young people the guests
gathered around the mysterious board
once. Each asked a question, and the
beautiful young countess asked in jest
about matter that her thoughts turned
to readily enough in her earnest mo-
ments. Planchette made answer as
above. Later on she consulted the oracle
again; the same answer was returned
to her, and eacn time she Joined IN the
game the result was the same. When
she met me she gave but little thought
to the prophecy that had been made TO
her, but soon she came to the conclusion
that Planchette had been right after all.
"An attempt to prophesy my own future
was more successful Returning from
Ireland in 1902 there was a lady n our
party who used to read palms for amuse-
ment. She was a Mrs. McCord of Chep-
stow villas, Bayswater, London. She
foretold that I would be married within
year, and that the first addition to my
family would be a double event, so
have good reason to remember her. This
is a prophecy that really came true as 1t
was made"
The third number gave MS a new selec-
tion and a beautiful, one, Erin! the
Tear and the Smile In Thine Eyes" The
Irish Rhapsody" is a gem novel in form,
but as the program said Irish as can
be-" We must have this again. Mr.. Ham
ilton.
80, native music beyond comparing.
The sweetest far on earth that falls.
Thy gentle numbers the heart remembers,
The strains enchaln us in mem rvs thrails.
Thy tones, endearing, or sad or cheering,
The absent soothe on a foreign strand;
o, who can tell what "A holy spell
IS in the strains of our native land"
Then followed the symphony.
Nordica is to go with the Damrosch or
chestra for concert tour.
$
Munich is to have a summers Mozart
and Wagner festival in opposition to the
Bayreuth season.
-S+-
In the presence of many notabilities of
the musical and literary world, in Paris
recently, the great copper chest contain
ing a priceless bequest to posterity was
sealed and shut up this week in the vaults
under the Paris Opera
The chest which under no circum-
stances must be opened for 100 years, con-
tains a large number of perfect gramo-
phone records of masterpieces sung by the
most eminent artists of today. In this
way future generations will possess specl
mems of the music of the twentieth cen
tury and have a means of ascertainine
how 1t was interpreted by the principa
singers of the Paris Opera.
| The chest deposited this week is the frs
| of a series, as it is intended to max
these records an important feature of th'
| Opera archives.
| The singers thus immortalized include
Patti, Melba. Calve, Mile Lindsay, Ca
russo, Tamagno and Renaud. The com
posers selected are Verdi, Mozart, Gou