The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-05
LITTLE MARY FABIAN TELLSA ABOUT MEETING
 MIR. OTTO KAHN AND METROPOLITAN STARS"
By DOLLY DALR.YsIPLn

| Fabian?y
 | Or
 Have you heard her sing?
 Then you aren't surprised when I tell you that she's just turned IT.
 little tiny slip of girl she s with the lovliest voice and the sweetest person. ality and checked full of enthusasns about what she wants to do in this great
 big old hustling world,
 Little Mary Fabian comes just about to your elbow
 She's that petite
 Her checks are almost bursting with a crimson flush that Is charming and her blue, blue eyes are as frank as the day is long. and her brown hair ripples above a brow that Is snowy white and youth personified shines from every feature Of her expressive little face.
 She's just as naive and sweet and in- nocent as child-which of course, she is;
 For
 | Who has ever thought of serious things at the immature age of 1T? | Who has ever seen the seamy side of this old. old world at that mile stone in
 life?
 Few-if any.
 | And
 It's a real Joy to cope in contact with nature like litue Mary Fabian's-un-
 polluted. unspoiled, unhurr-
 Yesterday this little Birmingham girl
 talked with me about the gracious prlvl-
 lege that had been hers recently when ] In, tl,. ..f- t1
 Kahn and several of the members of
 the Metropolitan company, during the
 season of opera in Atlanta,
 She was so unassuming and so modest that several times I had to insist upon
 her telling me some little incident which l to the initiate means a treemndous lot, | having, as it does, to do with some of the greatest celebrities in the operatic world. but to little Mary Fabain it was merely | an incident in the days work | How did you get an audience with the famous MT. Kahn?" asked first of all T wrote to him right from here-from Birmngham-and told him was going to be in Atlanta for the opera and asked if could see him." she saId naively And his reply?" I questioned - Was very kind and courteous she said. T made my arrangements to go to Atlanta and when I got there I com municated with Mr.~Kahn,- who told me that the only time he could see me was on Saturday, Morning last day or the opga4 <and he gave me an appoint uesft at half after ten.' "Of course you were excited to death = said quickly,
 Naturally" she smiled her bright eyes | fla shing her appreciation of the honor u~ iPh laod hnc raI l,a. | was astir by early morn and 1t seemed | to me everything in the world happened. | I guess it always does when you are in | a hurry. The car was late and I became very impatient and really didn't arrive at l Georgian Terrace until quite a quarter 1 of eleven. When I got there soon found | Mir. Kahn, who was lovely to me. He | has a very striking manner and a very | magnetic personality. I asked him if he | remembered my letter from Brmlng ham
 and he said, Why certainly and then he | Introduced me to Mir, Setti the choru s | master of the Metropolitan.
 T had a very difficult time understand ing MT. Setti," Miss Fabian cont tinued,
 and he had equally as hard time under | standing me. He has the funniest little | way of ending up every sentence by say l ing, think He never seems quite sure | It is always I think. He is very foreign, Of course, both in looks and speech and
 his hair Is awfuly shaggy and his eyes | are bright and snappy and his manner quick and ierlly. He's very nice thougl1 l and quite candid. He asked me if l was ready to sing for him and I told him l | was; so we went into the parlors Of the hotel, which, by the way, happened to be right next to Geraldine Farrar's suite. He sat down to the piano and asked me l what l would sing for him, and I told
 him something from Salome He played
 for me and as I sang he watched me very