Evening star., 1922-06-25

have profted by these addresses
Hundreds Of others are still frying sau-
sages in attics, sneezing In ramshackle
studios. or keeping up an appearance
in hotels too dear for them TO pay for
lessons also.
I. want Miss c., in her studio,
to profit Nothing doing.
T know all about the families"
she laughed. happily. land I don't
need them. or the hostels. Dear
train with an American vocal stu
letting me their Paris fiat for q
nominal $50 per month. 1t is like q
gift. They want me to keep it in
habited (because OF its valuables)
while they mako a home trip. A
girl friend and will live there. like
rich girls. Our own beautiful Paris
nat, for six months"
Doubtless Miss c. will then re-
turn to her attic.
Mono can bulge this sort Of thing.
II is typical. It grows in Paris. The
timid girl who hadn't it. well, she
can easily acquire it. 1t is the ar
tistic temperament. the divine melau-
choly Of the learned. the intense crav-
And it don't gee-haw with a French
family.
1t is smeared all over the subject
1t Is a wonder that they can tolerate
the bossing Of teachers, professors,
trainers mad coaches!
rATCH mo telling an American stu
~ dent girl to board in a French
family. Board in q French family?
Why, came up from Nice on the
train with an American vocal student
dent girl. clear-eyed. earnest. mod
est, charming, who stood two
hours in the car corridor telling me
how impossible It is to pursue tho
artistic life even when boarding in
your own American family in Paris.
Exactly. Her mother and sisters
had come over to Paris to mako q
home for her-and 1t was killing her
career! How could she put her heart
into artistic work when overwhelmed
with sordid household cares? Why,
yes, it comes to that. Don't she have
to hear tho sordid household stun
talked about all day?
tried to SOW good seed.
would 1t not be moro sordid to go
broke in Paris hotel?" I asked.
(Miss R. ts great for a hotel. She
had found an humdinger down in
ItaIy)
'oh, no." she answered. Such
risks are stimulating to the artistic!
They are not sordid."
"Or to live alone in a Paris attic?"
I suggested.
"I wouldn't" she bridled. But, .
Paris attic would not scare me. Stu
dents and attics 60 together. 1t -
tho everyday commonplace that
throws cold water on the artiste!"
There are hundreds of American
girl vocal music students in Euro
pean hotels that are too dear for
them. They make q hotel type. as
there is an attic type-including
muEgerers in draughty studios be-
fore they learn to paint
Miss r. would like to adventure
like Miss v, friend OF hers. who
will live in a smart hotel (and has
small money left for eats), because
she knows that she has got to meet
great singers. managers ana impre-
sarios on their travels. and create an
impresIion on the entertaining mon
eyed folks who pay girls to sing at
musicals
Thess girl students dress some
how. For them was created Miss
Naomi Dubellets work Of second
hand party gowns. carried on still by
her sister.
They take taxicabs. (The furnish
Ing Of taxicab money to students 10
yet to be undertaken.)
They lack the nourishing food SO
necessary to a great singer. and Oft
On have not enough money left to
keep up lessons with the professors
and side-lins coaches which they
should have-sacrincing all to "pro-
ducs themselves" to get into notice.
before they have qualified.
"ons has got to work hard these
days" says Mss W, citing great
Amsrseaa soprano Who did manage
to break in ~ these recklsss meth
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