The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-04-25
TetrazZinfs Voice Has
Lost None of Its Charm

With her best concert manners as
coquettishly ingenue as ever, her hin.
ger tips waiting airy kisses in re-
Spouse TO applause and her top IA
. nous notes wonderfully clear, bril-
liant and ripping, Nine Luisa Tetraz-
zini appeared in the armory Friday
evening, before an audience that sol
idly fFinged the outer edge and LETT
huge spaces of empty seats in the
main body OF the hall and the front
OF the galleries Which condition OF
affairs with regard TO the audience
means that folk who had dollar for
a seat spent ii and those who could
AFFORD three dollars kept them and
stayed away.
Madame had trouble with the floor
of the armory stage An ominous
cTeak as the plump, green and white
spangle-garbed prima donna stepped
out. evidently created a distrust In
her mind that she could not subdue,
and every time she appeared she
"shied" around that particular spot
and then gingerly stepped upon others.
much to the amusement or the audi
ence. Once, after successfully side
stepping all the shaky places. her lit
tie high-heeled gold shoes struck an
arrogant nail that stuck its head up
like the crocuses in the lawn this
morning. after the sweet, warm ram
and there was something doing IN
yoluble italian as Madame looked at
the nail and scolded Madame, how
ever, has trained herself to be appar-
emily, spontaneously and smillngly
good.natured before the public. and
after making a few grimaces she pan
tomimed TO the audience that 1T Is
really all right and | don't mind these
things at all.
While TetraZzinis three program
numbers we're war horses OF the color
atura soprano, which by virtue OF good
service and long life should be dis
carded forever by the modern singer,
especially the Grand Valse' type OF
vocal fireworks, these numbers and
the songs she gave as encores served
TO show the velvety cadences OF her
voice and her remarkable vocalization,
n vocalization which seems TO have
become a lost art and which bids fair
20 pass altogether with the snatching
AWAY by Father Time OF Sembrich,
Melba and. inevitably, TetrazZini, from
the concert and operate stage.
Madame had three assistants to re-
,leve her OF too much work, In Petro
Caso, fiutist: Rafael Diaz, tenor, and
Yves Nat pianist and accompanist. BE
II remembered that when prima don
nos 90 a-touring the money remunera-
tion to the concert company is
usually the smallest item in the man
ggers financial budget and hence II
IS useless to expect very much in the
,ay OF artistic ability Mr.. Case. a
bale.faced. shrinking little man, played
he flute pretty well and. unlike other
ilutists who have accompanied singers
on the same platform the last season
I'm 1.-THE Perle OF Bresil' number ana
other vocal pyrotecnnics he kept him.
self and his flute deferentially In the
BACKGROUND and let the singer have
all the fun she wanted trying to hit
the high C's and the roof. Mr.. Diaz
sang rather agreeably tn the main. but
Mr.. Nat, whose accomplishments for
Nine. Tetrazzini were properly sub
dued tried hard to make the piano
drown the voice when he played for
Mr.. Diaz. Mr. Nat In order to fll in,
as Is expected OF him, played the In
evitable Chopin and List numbers.
and to give him fun measure OF credit
the audience encored him over and
overagain.
ELLA NAE HAWTHORNE.