The New York herald., 1921-01-30

ease when woman Is mixed up in them?
Does the imperial bugle OF Matzenauer
bring repose to the weary spirit. or is It
the forid futing of Galii-Curci-Samuels
that is to soothe the listening COM
mentator into peace? No. the gallery Of
fair queens OF song offers little to the
tired one. He does not even feel rested
when in a single week two of them
send him affectionate messages. ''I
don't care what he writes about me.
love him just the same" Which is in
contestably true. They love him just
the same. Thank heaven for the Sui
Ivan lawi
Voices of Yesteryear.
Where are the voices of yesteryear!
One and one only retains it's old
familiar quality, the matchless, the in
rel in one of his literary moments said
of the vocal organ of Tamagno: "C'est
la voix unique du monde" Tamagno
has gone to join Mario. Rubini. Anton
Raff. Crivelli and the rest Of them in
the flatless place where they put
tenors after life; and the unique voice
of the world is now that Of Miss Mary
Garden.
No other voice can do what hers can.
When she has ceased to tread the lyric
stage with the elastic and sinister walk
of the panther, the music of her un-
challenged voice will still linger in the
ears OF happy world and her own and
only tones will strike upon the ear
drums of thrice three hundred thousand
doting adorers. She will be gone, but
her song will live.
Such souls.
Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind
A voice that IN the distance far away
Wakens the sluinbering ages.
One after another the song birds lose
the primal beauty and brilliancy of their
voices. and for years and years live
on the regulations which they made
when they first came before the public.
IL would be little short Of criminal to
tell the truth about some OF them. But
the general rule Is that they begin by
singing and end by screaming. And
after that. the fall OF the citadel.
The voice changes. II does not go.
Seldom indeed does one OF these fair
creatures lose her voice. Would that
happens. They keep on emitting more
or less musical sounds with the remains
of the voices and those whose ears
are disinterested grieve. Tho writer OF
these lines felt a distinct blow OF pain
when the celebrated Miss Rosa Raisa
IN singing the recitative predatory to
"Casta Diva" blew two great holes
through her superb voice Just about the
break between the medium and upper
registers.
The iudicrous MESA al voce which she
introduced into the finai phrase Of the
same recitative and which she sang
with such technical command did not
mako the listener forget. What would
Donizett have thought OF that swell
tone? Or Pasta7 Did Pasta do lit
Chorlev IL so mean that he does not
mention r..
But speaking Of Pasta, will any Of
these decaying prima donnas evoke
such a comment In the days OF their
failure as Pasta did7 Nine. viardot
heard tho great dramatic singer when
she was old and almost finished. She
listened in wonder almost through an
opera till the final scene was reached
Pasta had been trying 20 do everything
she had ever done. She never altered
her versions. Her efforts we're lament
able. but In the last scene the incessant
clamor OF her audience aroused her 10
renewed vigor and for few moments