Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-12
MADAME GALL|-CURC|
COOKS AS WELL AS SINGS
AS Her Notes Are En-
trancfng.
NO STRANGER IN KITCHEN
When OF Stage, World-Famous
Songbird Does Not Hesitate to Roll
Up Sleeves and Prepare Dainty
Dishes Fit for Epicures.


Dishes Fit for Epicures.
we may live without poetry. music
or art:
We may live without conscience. and
live without heart;
We may live without friends. we may
live without books.
But a civilized man cannot live with
out cooks.
He may live without books-what Is
knowledge but grieving?
He may live without hope-what Is
hope but deceiving7
30 may 1.-Two without love-what is
passion but pining?
But where is the man who can live
without dning?"
CHICAGO, ILL. August 11.-when
Amclita Galli-Curci. the greatest
singer OF the age. came to Chicago, she
did not wire ahead her whereabouts.
arrange for interviews md pictures.
or engage the finest corner suite. like
= queen of the Folles. She. sufficient
unto herself. sought out and secured
. modest apartment. far from the
maddihg- crowd. and settled quietly
down with her distinguished husband.
which has been continuous since their
marriage seven yenrs ago. She had
engaged piano, which moved in
simultaneously with their wardrobe
trunks for house without a piano
could DO no home for her.
Her previous two months residence
in America, il inconspicuous. had not
been idle, for in il she had acquired
sufficient. familiarity with English to
add to her linguistic list OF Italian,
Spanish, French and Russian. She is
far from being musc-bound in mind.
and detcsts nothing SO much as mac
ttvtty. Having secured furnished
residence and q guide book she at
once proceeded 10 market. disdaining
the avid occupation OF hunting SER
wants. She and the marquis were
enough for their mcnage-two were
plenty. and cooks were superfiuous.
GREAT ONES COMING
PROM OVER UNIVERSE
Meanwhile the busy note of operatic
preparation was waking the echoes ut
the auditorium; the great ones were
coming in from the East and from
legs favored points OF the universe
They were being met at the station
and Photographed. with the aggressive
little male bloods fluttering to the
front rows just in time to block the
chances of the naughty prima donnas
and win maledictions from the news
paper artists
The royal Muratore and his Qucenly
consort Lima Cavalicrri, were off 10
the parks on quiet sketching tours;
the brainy and buxom Farrar, fresh
from California and an all summers
battle and burning at the stake as
Joan ot-Arc. had caSt Jstie her sword,
: donned Japanese gark instead OF her
coat o1(nail. and settled in secluded
study asa clff-dweller: while the les
ser ones strutted and fumcd for their
place in the sun, the potential
Campanini busily lined up his forces
for the fling of fate.
Meanwhile people in the neighbor-
hood Of the little house OF mystery on
the lar south side had established lis
tening posts" for the sounds OF re-
marka5le piano playing had ..ccompani-
ment In song which fell feelnEly upon
the dullest ears. Some one. kind and
observant. sent a note to Campanini
acquainting him OF the fact OF n local
vocal md" whereat that puissant per-
sonage allowed his chuckle to eiabo-
rate into loud laugh. lie knew all
about 1t.
About this time a maid with "A pencil
and nose for news, browsing far
afield from the auditorium, made a dis
covery, and ran the Galli-Curci clue
right into tho lair OF love and music
The name had family 'ech oed from far
Ruenos Aires. and.was- so unusual that
she had not forgotten IL. She sought
out the unknown. and found her in
the act OF singing and acting. Che
went all through the action invested
in the composition, as sho syncl ronized
the melody with notes that scared and
dipped and divcd and emerged all
sparkling-soft as liquid light corrus-
eating like silver in the sunlight.
NEwSGIUL CLAPS
HANDS JOYOUs.Y
II never heard anything like IT,"
said tho ncwsgirl. clapping her hands
joyous!y- Where did you come from ~
why are you here" Lost in u grca,
city,"
Then Gal!i-Curci responded out OF ne,
two months English: "Im here be.
cause Pm here" s,L.s1.,..
"But-Campanini must know abou
this" .iN-rnss
He uoes." respo ndad the singer with
glowing eyes He docs. but he doe.
not say & word about IL yet"
There was truce against telling al