New-York tribune., 1922-12-15
Spiritual That's
Gives Jeritza
New Triumph
s,,nnese Prima Donna Steps
Into Role Of Garden and
Farrar at Metropolitan
With Dramatic Effect
hc Contrast Is Striking
ar Courtesan of Alexandria
Sung With Deepest of
Emotion, Yet Is Decorous
BY n. E. Krchbiel

- Thai, who 6rst got into liter
"a Greek woman concerning
- -. moral character there was never
W =, ,nd Who made her name IA
q, infamousl BY melting AlcS-
~. ,As Great, when BE- was drunk
~ n ,nterprising mood, to burn
90 49,, Of the Persian kings at
sas 80, whether or not she changed
Is.'f f.,r,uluss to sAnctity, Is did her
~" -, mated b. Anatolc Franee,
y. i,r an Alexandrine eourte-
vte ssrlv Christian period, We do
-. ~. " fact. the historian o. her
20 "a exploit when she was sharing
r-sjefs Asistie campaign has 90
,r,dibility according 10 the
men who Study such thingsl
sv.,v sehoolboy has the privilege
s.rh,ino whether she ever lived, or
Gs'h"y she lived she made an
,"ss, man out OF one Of the Ptolc-
- -. Nv becoming the mother Of some
dhs children.
MARY Nardcns OflRlh@i
~. have no doubt, however, about
q, sareer OF Francis's Tbsis after she
~ been made the heroine Of an opera
= foujs Callet and Jules Massonet
x, was the original Of Mary Garden
yhfn that lady first made a generous
asplsy Of her pulehritude at the Man
t,s,sn Opera House on November 70
,sJ Mfss Garden successfully de-
irded her privilege Of being the onIy
fi,ls Of Mr.. Hammerstein's company
,ninst any effort Of Mile. Cavalier e
,.eresent her, and enjoyed monopoly
1tbe character in New York 'lsavinf
.irsle appearance Of Mile. lavrenne
= ne New Orleans Opera Company
ieun 20 February 10, 1917, when MISS
T,rrKr threw her gay rairent into the
.i.s Az the Metropolitan Opera House.
~. Fsrrar's interest in the part en-
Ss,ed only two seasons, however, and
d,es then the names Of Garden and
TlsI, have been synonymous. That IS,
:, aid That's and thought Mary Car
~, until last night, when the fourth
ssnrssentatlve Of the character placed
IN III In evidence at the Metropoli-
,,r n was Nine. JeritEa who came, was
seen and Conquered.
spiritual As Well AZ Fleshly
Madame Jeritza, however. differed
,sngwhat from ner predecessors. She
,ot orIv gave greater pleasure 10 the
,vs than her predecessors, she was also
h.ard with greater satisfaetion, and
by splendid exhibition Of histrionie
novsrt the made a powerful appeal TO
H. ,,n.oination and emotions Of her
H,t,ners. Il was possible while look
,nr st and listening 20 her 20 think
Of other creatures Of her kind than
Thait, Phryne, Lais and Messalina. In
sAort, 70 ponder a bit about women Of
the Ansient world like Aspssia, with
whom we believe Socrates held wise
converse and who Is supposed to have
lent q hand 10 Perieles when he wrote
the funeral orsti0n which Lincoln
ynsds % sink into almost nothingnesS
~ . few sentences spoken on the
field Of Gettysburg. To put u more
plainly Madame Jeritza's Thais was
rot all Geshly. but spiritual as we'll
Der conversion after she had pleaded
the cause Of Venus TO Athanael was a
tragic and moving exposition OF
roman's nature and sent q thrill
through the audience like that pro-
euced by her climactic scene in
'ToSoa." There was the strength OF
soryistion IN Il which made her
tLttly death IS plausible as It WAS