Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15

should be, and was not at all bashful at dis
playing her mirth to the half dozen cameras
that the newspaper photographers kept trained
on her
None of the singers were bashful when it
came to picture taking. Caruso obligingly did
everything short of standing on his head to
make copy for the picture men. He and
Scott and Dinh Glly and Segurola went
through stunts that might well have been those
OF Canio, the famous clown in Il Pagacci."
II Canio were not so tragic a clown and then
laughed at the results when the photographers
later displayed them. Seguroa, to show that
he was pantomimist and a good comedian
as well as surprising singer smoked his first
cigarette, and made faces over it SO that the
picture takers might get something worth
while.
But while all these volatile Latins of thu
Metropolitan Company were playing like chill
dren-most of the singers are French or italian
OF Spanish-there was staid and sober groun
watching them little disapprovingly. In n
were Emmy Destinn and her husband, Richard
Hagemann, formerly of the Imperial Opera ot
Berlin, and other true Teutons who could not
dof their dolorous Teutonic temneraments ana
iall into the gay spirit of Caruso and his marty
MISS Destinn, even in the bright AtIant.
morning, was signing for Germany. She WAS
not particularly homesick she would have r.
known, and she liked America and all that
ouO germany after all, was home She dis (
oourSeu Ieeiingiy on the meager salaries that
singers III halser W1lhelm's Imperial Opera
House are paid, salaries so poor, she said that
she had to come to America to make more
money
Why prima donna makes only a mere
$4,000 year. she cried with a shrug of her
shoulders And then she prayed for the day
when they would be less parsmonious in Ber-
I'M 1t is understood that her salary with the
Metropolitan Company aggregates SIS. 1000
year.
But don't form the opinion that Emmy
Destinn is altogether lugubrious There is
probably no other member of the company who
Is more cordially liked than this matronly.
quiet German singer She steps onto the
porch. Everybody speaks to her. Dinh Gilly.
playing as he always plays bows before her
and kisses her hand Caruso who has the
soul of comedian, jumps on chair, and
spreads his hands in blessing over the two OF
them. And the photographer catches them at
1t, although the pose was not meant for the
photographer, but was executed out of pure
spontaneity and play, and to prove that every-
body likes Emmy Destinn
One well-known and likable though quiet
,bn, 1,
will be tinge of sadness in the fact Putnam
Griswold, the American basso, died only two
weeks ago the result of an operation Ha
came to Atlanta for each of the four seasons
before this, and consequently was well known
But Geraldine Farrar, who was not here last
season, and whose loss was openly regretted
by Atlanta society, will come this time. and
will sing with Caruso in Carmen" that most
popular Of all operas, and in Madame Butter.
fly" one of the greatest of her achievements
Margaret Ober and RudoIp Berger, singers new
to Atlanta, and, indeed, new to the United
States, will come this season, and will sing
together in Wagner's 'Lohengrin," and in
Strauss new and sensational Der Rosenkaya.
lier' Frieda Hempe too, the beautiful young.
German soprano who won Atlanta as her own
by her singing last season, will appear in Der.
Rosenkavaler," which will be one of the unioue
features of the week at the Auditorium. The
well known American singers, Leonora Sparkes
and Paul Althouse. who were In Atlanta last
season, but who did not sing, will be heard in
Herberts Madeleine" which will be sung in
English.
The program for the 1914 Atlanta season
is: Monday evening, April 81, Carmen" Tues
day afternoon II Trovatore;" Wednesday
evening, Der Rosenkavalier;" Thursday aft
ernoon, double BILL Herbert's Madeleine" in
English, and "IPagiacci" Frfaay evening.
Madame Butterfly" SaturdaH matinee. Lob
engrin" Saturday night, On Ballo in Mas
chera." The famous Arturo Toscanini. Alfred
Hertz and Richard Hagemann will serve as di.
rectors in Atlanta.
Thus the operas Atlanta will hear are 70 be
sung in four languages English, French. Ital
ian and German The American national art
of music will be represented by Victor Her
bert's new opera, Madeleine" the libretto by
Grant Stewart. Mr.. Herbert needs no intro
ducton as a composer; his popularity is UNI
questioned and his reputation is eminent
Last seasons opera In English" venture
was not altogether pleasing. Damrosch's "Cy-
a lug1ibriOus niece did not Ar the nuhlic