The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-25
JOMELL| PRAISES
RICHMOND SINGER
Declares That Marie Stcinbrccher
Has Wonderful Voice Like
Schumann-Hein
TALKS ABOUT MINT luLEps
Thinks We Are Ready for Grand
Opera When We Get Rid
of That Barn.
TALKS ABOUT MINT IULEPs

| quietly into the Jefferson Hotel on
! Friday morning TO enjoy a well-enrncd
rest before her recital in the City Au-
ditorium tonight. Although her press
agent had announced that she would
not arrive In Richmond until this af-
| tcrnoon. her "lncog." was penetrated.
and she was unfceiingly asked for an
interview 10y a reporter for The Times
Dispatch last night.
Am l glad TO bt hack In Rich
| mond?" she said with smile: why,
| love Richmond; and the Richmond
| people. they love me. think. They
| say they like my singing. and l adore
TO sing for people who like me. All.
| the Sonthermers are so friendly ana
discovery 'hcre-a wonderful disoov-
cry, 1t Is the seventeen-ycar-old
Richmond girl. Marie !Steinbrccher.
Has Wonderful Voice.
Has she voice? Ali" Madame
Jomelli rolled her expressive eyes and
ciaspel her hands with tha French
gesture OF rapture. She IS young,
she is tall and slender Ono would
never expect she cIEuld sing But
when she opens h,r mouth-ah, there
comes out voice like Schumann-
lfe'nk. so round so fill. so deep ana
so soulful. have placed her with
famous trainer of New, York; Inter,
when her parents consent. she shall
go TO Germany and study there TO
startle the world with her cxqu.sit.
contralto
There is also. another discovery
nave made she edded In nor almost
nerfect English: your beautiful shops
IN Richmond One would nevsr look
Tor such shops here. / was surprised.
entranced. whom went out yestcr
day to buy a pieoe OF silk. Your e!ris
too. are splendid. and know hov 20
dress themselves. But the way YOU
sail them debutantee--it is too ayn,ip
Ing 10 foreigner. When heard
That word for the FIRST time was Al.
toaished was surprised In Frame
It IS only actresses making their
! debuts that we call dehutantes and
your debutantc7 We SPEAK Of as girls
who are coming out. T made hlunders
when was asked 10 meet 'debu,an,cs,
in New York. I thought they ,ycrc
actresses, and my husband ne thought
tho same thing. All. II was too dron
When reference was made 10 the
joke told al Madame Jomelii's expens e
concerning her first taste Of mint
julep on her last Southern trip tie
madame laughed heartily.
Know How to Make JuIcps
".re they stiii telling that ehon,
/ me?' she asked. "Wh3n cams bne,,
North the New York papers were fun
OF ti-great big headlines Madame
Jomelll Repeats Repcat. I though,
! could not understand Than read
now l was given one min, julep and
asked for another. Alas, II tE true.
confess my partially for the delight.
~! juicp, ] adore than like them
above anything. said must learn
how they vera made 7; was diaicult
'Ant persevered. Success was minn
now make the most divine julcp in
the world
Whcr"upon madame entered .nthu.
siastically into tho explanation ~ III
most approved method OF 'ulep max
ing. Tho reporter then re,nenibar.d
mat ne had read in m almanac some
Where, or had overheard some onc
telling in street car how A .iuI.n
should be connected, and yenturcd the
remark that nadame's recipe was de-
ficient In ono important detail.
Madame" he protested. you are
guilty Of sacrileEe. The mint should
never be hrn;ally crushed: tus, tom
DERBY pressed so that Tho essence OF
the flavor minEles with the ncc+a-
1t Is vital that the hole in the tumble
OF ice should be made with the fore. /
finger and the whiskey poured in
How droll." said thu great Ionc,li
Fh'"'' Of "a''er nuttlnr his nnrer
Into the Ice to make the hole" And
UP went her shoulders In horror.
ltichmond md GRIND opcrn.
switching the conversation from mat
tsrs oil Importance TO secondary cor
sidcrations. the diva was asked whnt
shc thought OF Richmond as a ci;y