The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10
Trertini's Masquerade Nets Her
About Three Dollars.
GO WAY, WOMAN'S CRY.
"Baby Won't Sleep While You
Sing" Reads Note.
Wealthy Take Slight Interest in
Supposed Wait.
CoAlING ATTRACTIONS.

NHNA%NO a
At the Grand.
December 15-High School Play
December 16-Rose Melville in isis
Hopkins
DECEMBER 1.-THE Three Twins.
December 19-21-The Norwoods, Hyp-
notists.
December 22-The Fortune Hunter.
December 24-The Golden Girl.
At the Majestic.
North Brothers Stock company in
Quincy Adams Sawyer"
AT the Novelty.
Vaudeville
A grand opera singer who gets $500
a week was able to make only 1915 a
day. She played a week on the public
and the public tricked itself, for large
part of it didn't take the trouble to
listen to music free that it gladly pays
dollars to hear when it is labeled with
the operas and the singers name.
Few singers who have appeared in
New York in recent years are better
known than Emma Trentini, who gain
ed the title Of 1.-THE little devil of
opera" when she sang at the Manhat-
tan opera house. When Oscar Ham
merstein decided that the Manhattan
should be vaudeville house Trentini
moved over to the New York theater.
For three hours Friday Trentini was
q SIESGs singer. EoIl0 sang ES1l Opcrd
She gave the best she had-and who
were those who rewarded genius with
penny? Who remembered a full, sweet
voice, which carried more than eight
stories, singing:
Quando men vo'
Soletta per Ia via genie sosta.
Six Cents for One Song.
That's the waltz from La Boheme."
She sang it at / o'clock in a yard be-
hind 315 West Ninety-eighth street,
which forms a court for six apartment
houses facing on Ninety-eighth and
Ninety-ninth streets. And the darling
of Broadway" whose salary for one
week is 1880, received cents for her
entertainment.
Around her head was a red silk
shawl. She wore g, short gray dress
which made her look even smaller than
she usually does. Her delicate throat
was protected from the raw wind by a
gray sweater. The shawl pullel over
her forehead almost concealed her
round face, and she resembled gypsy
fortune teller or street singer.
It was a baby that first discovered"
the great artist in the street singers
garb. From one of the windows came
penny wrapped in note. It said:
THE baby won't sleep while you
sing. Please go away"
1.-THE baby, 'eeh weel not sleep, no
yes said Trentini. roguish twinkle
in her big black eyes. mo, 'eeh weel
not sleep. I weel sing heem a Iooloby,
And here the tiny diva, who stands
little more than four feet high, was
grooming the softest of melodies in
Italian. She sang for only a minute
but a woman's head was thrust from
one of the upper windows and a nickel
tinkled into the courtyard. Trentini
picked it up and waited for more. There
was no morei
Then she tiptoed out Of the court
Policeman Guards These Rich.
At the Apthorp apartment house,
where single apartment rents for
$4,000 a year. stern policeman
barred the way. He was there to see
that none of the guests was disturbed,
even by an $500 a week voice
At the Ansonia the little troubadour,
instead Of asking "by your leave"
brought out her tambourine and
sounded the first note of la Colon
ba' (''The Dove"), which was dedi-
Gated to her by Kurt SCHNEIDER.
Trentini looked neither to the right
nor to the left. She did not turn back,
but straight through the swinging
doors and into the sacred halls of the
Ansonia. w. E. D. Stokes, proprietor
or the AnSonia. was passing through the
hall when the notes fell on his ear. He
stood rooted to the spot and then
rushed to the door.
my dear young woman" he said,
you have a wonderful voice. How
did you get into my hotel? Come into
the ballroom; want you to sing for
my guests"
A few women, some dressed in furs
and diamonds, gathered around. Again
Trentini sang "Boheme'' and danced
about tho big ball room People
paused in their establishment. Chate-
laine bags were opened and out came
pennies. Yes, and some nickels, and
dimes, and quarters, and one man gave
a dollari
Call for Colleagues FFightens.
A woman went to the little singer