New-York tribune., 1922-09-29
Mime. Fren1stad
To Trade Gems
For Securities
songstress, Arriving ON Ho.
naeric. Will Sell Realty
and Wardrobe Also and
Buy Gilt Edged Bonds
Seeks independent Life
Louis W. Hill and Family
and Simon Guggenhein
Also Are Among Arrivals

Being once more imbued with wan
derlust as a result OF a six-nonths'
trip abroad, MnsS. Olive Fremstad
Metropolitan soprano, declared upon
her arrival here yesterday on the
White Star liner Homeric that she
would, as soon as circumstances per
mitted, dispose of her real estate, jew.
elry and wardrobe and invest the pro-
ceeds in gilt-edged securities. Her
only worry then win be to clip the
coupons and travel continuously on the
interest, with an itinerary that will be
interrupted only by an occasional con-
cert.
Nine. Fremstad passed her time
abroad in France, Germany and Aus
tria, visiting her old home in the latter
country. There, she, said, she visited
many of the farms that were familiar
10 her from early childhood and oc-
cupied several days In cooking for the
peasants and the babies.
1t was not SO many years ago that
Nine Fremstad was known in Munich
as the Beloved Carmen" but the treat
ment accorded her on her visit to that
city was quite q contrast to the diva's
last departure. Perhaps it all came
about because she failed to reveal her
identity, but whatever it was, she was
fore she was summoned by the police
for failing to register. This neglect
cost her 5000 marks for herself and
her nephew, Malcolm Petrie, travelling
with her.
Ordered to Leave Munich
Six days later she was called again
60 police headquarters and firmly but
politely informed that her presence no
longer was required in Munich. The
chief explained that foreigners were
allotted but one weeks stay in the
city owing to the tremendous influx of
travellers, the lack of hotel accommo
dations and the fact that every one
was on an orgy of buying as result
of the fall of the mark, with n con-
sequent depreciation in stocks of the
stores at a time when the merchants
were in quandary as to where new
supplies were coming from.
Nine. Fremstad, who was accom-
panied also by a protege, Miss Anna
Yer Planck. Of White Plains. will re-
main here for few days and then 60
to her home in Maine for a brief rest
before disposing of her property.
Returning on the Homeric also were
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis w. Hill, their three
sons and daughter. Mr.. Hill, who is
chairman of the board of directors of
the Great Northern Railway, departed
soon after the vessel locked to accom-
pany two of his sons, Louis jr. and
Jerome, to New Haven, where they will
resume their studies at Yale. He then
will return to his, home in St. Paul.
Finds Peasantry Prosperous
Mr.. Hill and his family were on a
ten weeks automobile tour of the Con-
tinent, and went through all the coun-
tries with the exception of Germany.
The one thing that impressed the rail-
road magnate most, he said, was the
prosperity of the peasants, particu-
larly in France, where the ajority are
engaged in raising Injuries, such as
flowers for perfumes and grapes for
wine. Their success is in striking con-
trast to that of the farmers in the Mid
die West, who do not find it as easy to
obtain credit as the peasants of Eu.
rope. e said he was pleasantly sur
prised by the prosperity of these rural
communities.
Simon Guggenheim, president of the
American Smelling and Refining Com
pany, another passenger, returned with
an optimistic view of Europe's future
industrially. He declared that bust
ness conditions were gradually improv-
ing, with no further evidence of pow
erty, particularly in Germany, where