Bisbee daily review., 1922-12-15
CHAL|AP P|N WILL RECEIVE s40OO
 EVERY EVE MING
Famous Baritone's Ambition Is to Be Head of American
 All Arts Conservatory
By MILTON BRoNNER

By MILTON BRONNER LONDON, Dec. 14.-Four thousand dollars a night for couple of hours work.
 That's what Feodor Chaliapin, the worlds greatest baritone, is to get during the coming season at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Caruso never received as much.
 Just think of getting so much money to sing in opera" exclaimed the Russian singer when seen in his comfortable suite at the fashionable Savoy Hotel here. Its grand-espe- cially when one knows that every so-called golden note is going to be paid for in golden notes of another kind which will buy shoes and stock ings for ten children
 They are his grIrtest concern Last spring when he returned to Russia from his first American trip, he brought back with him shoes, stock ings, suits, dresses, pickles, preserves, dainties, new pots and pans-a won- derful Noah's ark collection of things that couldn't be bought in Russia for hundreds of millions of rubles.
 Won't Discuss Politics
 There had been rumors that the Bolsheviks allowed him to come to England and America to sing only on the condition that he would re- turn and that his family was held as hostages
 But the singer wouldn't discuss them. He just smiled:
 q am an artist, not a politician Above all, I am a Russian. Such terms as old Russia New Russia 'Monarchist Russia 'Proletarian Rus sia, don't interest me. I love. simply Russia, without any qualifying ad- jectives''
 To questions about his own TO- nance, he replied:
 My private life-my family life is my own. It belongs to me. It is sacred. Chaliapin. the artist, is public property His art is open to praise or blame, as people see fit. But Chaliapin. the husband and father is not public property. So now-please please"
 But between the lines there slipped out various interesting things about this very interesting man. Not yet 50, his blond Russian hair just be- ginning to be slightly flecked with gray, he is the fatler of ten children three boys and seven girls. Eight are by his first marriage and two by his second. His wife, one boy and four girls will live in England this winter, so the children can go to school here. The others will remain in Russia.
 Children Can't Sinq
 Not one of them is musical" said Papa Chaliapin without even the sem blance of a sigh. But some of them show other artistic bents. My oldest boy, who is IT; bids fair to be good painter. Two other children have developed a taste for acting"
 He looked longingly at the pictures on the wall-and changed the subject of the interview.
 "You ask me-" said Chaliapin, eff there is chance that I may settle down in America. That depends upon how the American people like me I would stay if I could carry out a cherished dream of mine-to found in America and be the head of great national conservatory of all the arts
 Last winter when I was over in America I was struck by the abund ance of pulsating life-the full-mus- cled, active. strong men, the 1.-the athletic women, the rush in the streets, the superlative of material success.
 ''In America you have brought business to a point undreamed of elsewhere. But I seemed to feel