The daily Alaskan., 1916-07-25
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@AAA AAN NOllLA e'Nr AbA NAAG HNNAopAl D tenors are signed If your voice was baritone could use you very readl- Iy. As 1t is fear we cannot be of use to each other"
 Try me as baritone" said the other.
 The manager smiled. Give me your address" he said. Sometimes singers become irritable. and brain irritation usually results in throat irritation I may have occasion to suddenly put in a substitute"
 4 week later Signor stanelli received a telephone message to call at the opera house at once. When he was announced he was admitted readily, and Hinton told him that his baritone had quarreled with his contralto and refused to sing with her. "The part runs low" he added, "only In one or two places, and we can cut them out.
 The new singer created a sensation. His voice, instead of being high pitch, ed for a baritone, was very low. Those parts which the manager had suggest ed cutting out were sung with vigOr. Hinton was astonished.
 How in the world did you ever get such hexibility into your voice." he asked Stanelh after the opera.
 Staneln looked confused and said he didn't know.
 It was not long after this that Hin. ton was again in trouble; this time for a tenor. His principal man In pre- tended stabbing scene had really stuck a knife intoa rival for the favor of not woman, but the public. He sent for Staneln and asked him If he could get his voice up to pitch that would enable him to take the part Stanelli said that he had sung the part with out experiencing any trouble. He was told to be on hand for 1t the same evening.
 He made as pronounced q success as a tenor as he had as baritone. Only a portion of the audience had heard him in his other role. These were somewhat surprised. They did not know what to think about man being both tenor and baritone. The rest of the audience supposed that Stanelll was q regular tenor
 As for Hinton. he could not believe his own ears. He knew very well that the human voice has not so wide a range as appeared in this case, and he believed that there was some I'm position being practired upon him. If not. then Stanelli was simply such a wonder as the world had never seen before.
 Hlnton's company was in a constant state of warfare. One night when Stanelli was singing baritone part In I'll TlOyatore" q quarrel occurred be tween the tenor and the soprano-they were singing lovers parts-and the lady slapped the tenOr's face. He vowed that he would not sing another note with her, and the manager could not move him Turning to Stanelh' Hinton said:
 Gan you finish the part for himF
 "I think I Can."
 "Wcl. if you can that will solve the probIem for this performance. l can easily supply your place in the role you have been singing"
 Stanelll went to his dressing room to change his costume, sending his valet Luigi. for the dress now required Luigi took It to him. and in due time StanelH came forth robed for the trou' badour's part.
 This success in singing two different parts. requiring a tenor and baritone voice, further puzzled Hinton. After the performance he called Stanelh Into his office and said to him:
 "StaneIl. wish your voice was on two different bodies. l would like to cast you for two parts In the same opera"
 "That is not impossible" replied StanelI unConcernedly.
 Not impossible! What do you mean?"
 "Name the parts and l will be on hand in two bodies"
 Then the singer told his secret to the manager. and one evening the tenol and baritone parts were taken by tw" men who were the image of each other They were Arturio and Giovanni Sta nelli. twin brothers. But Luigi did moi assist his master in his dressing room that evening, for he was Giovanni Stanelli and had sung the baritone parts for his brother.
 Arturio and Giovanni Stanelli wefr the rage among music lovers for the balance of the season and the next year made contracts which gave each one of them a fortune. They had adopted the plan of winning public ia vor slngly because they would not be separated and believed that two trying for an introduction at the same time would be more difficult than one.