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New-York tribune., 1922-02-19
Dperatic Singers and
Press Agents i'm America
ome Caust'c humor From the Pen of " ell Known
Tenor; Leo Slezak Writes Book of Reminis.
cenccs; Extravagant Tales Not All, Inventions

According to the mental attributes. of
ones press agent one reads In the
newspapers the things which cause
moro or less the blush OF shame to
reodcn ones cheeks. OF course. ufter
ono has been over there for vear
, ono becomes callous TO MANY things.
In these stories care must be had
not TO speak about art. Nobody would
read that. The important thing is the
headlinc-the superscription. This
headline must not only contain the
essence Of the story, it must provoke
curiosity. for so pcr cent Of the Amer
leans read no more than the headlines.
From these they learn all that is worth
knowing. and it is only in expectation
OF a wItticism or something else that
Is interesting that they read the text.
a tour in America must be prepared
months in advance. The cities which Il
is contemplated 10 visit must be fed
with stories-ama teur portrai.s-in the
summer home--in shirt sleevcs-in a
bathing suit. Since all this had AL
ready been done in my case ] had nv
sell photographed--a bathing suit. with
all my decorations, the Order of the
Commander hanging about NV neck q
shecc OF music in my hand. The head
ilne: Mr.. Slezak studying new role
Tor America in his country house Tn.
unlucky inhahitsnt is assured at every
opportunity, everywhere and at ell
times that I will sing in the Aeolian
Hall of the city. Prices from s. to so
cents. If he picks up blotting paper
as hotel my portrait grins in his
tace-as Othello, Leo Sczak, The
greatest tenor in the world, That ever
lived! That ever will live,
wherever he goes, in every shop.
from every limppost my highly intel
lectual face smiles upon him. At first
he is irritated; gradually get onto
the nerves of tho pitiful fellow and
he develops a feeling of hatred which
would not stop at murder. Then T
come. He buys his ticket, goes to the
concert and is the best, the most CRATE
full kind OF listencr-thc most CRATE
full because he knows that after tho
concert he will be rid Of nc.
The arrival In America must in par
tlcular be properly managed The
anchors clattcr down, tho mail boat
makes fast on one side, the health
officer on the other and already the
quick little steamer Of "The New York
Herald" rlshes up with all tho re-
porters on board.
Getting Rid of
Phantom Mascot
Calls arc exchanged. Hello, my
boy. How do you do? How are your
wife and children? Did you bring the
cet along? And the two dogs? Big
SchnautzI" They climb on board and
now comes the clou. l meet them with
goat and turtle. What's that?
My mascots-my Porte -honheuri I
can't sing without the goat; it's got to
be in the concert room. Tho turtle
loves me, too, and wags her tail when
I talk to her. She must be on hand.
Immense laughter! But obviously it
makes an impression. Everything is
photographed.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-19
Fifteenth Week of
Season 10 Open Witt,
" "Andrea Chenicr''

Giordsno's "Andrca Chcnier" viii
have It's second performance this sea.
son tomorrow evening, opening th~
fifteenth week Of The metropolitan
Opera. Tho cast win include Mmc.
Muzio and Mcssrs C.gl and Danise.
Mr.. Moranzoni VIII conduct
aida" will be given a. a matinee
next Wednesday, With Mines. Muxio
and Pcrini and Messrs Martinclli Dam
sc and Mardones MIR. Moranzon; Will
conduct
"Rigolotto' will be sung Wednesday
evening BY Nine Galli-Curci and
Mcssrs. Chamlec De ruca and Rothier.
Mr.. Popi will conduct
OtAer operas this week VIII be:
Tristan und Isolde on Thursday,
with Mines. Easton and Gordon ana
Messrs sembach, Wh'tchill and Gus
tafson, Mr.. Bodsnzkv conducting
Lucia" on Friday afternoon. with
Mines Cali Curci and Nesyrs Gigli,
De Luca and Mardones. Nh Pap con
Quoting
"Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Psgli
acci' on Friday night the former with
Mines. Jeritza. porina and Mattfeld
and Messrs, Chamlec and Picco, and ;he
latter with Nine. Bori and Messrs, sal
azar and Scott Mr. Moranzoni con
ducting
'Taust' on Saturday afternoon. With
Mines. farrar. EMS and Bera. and
Mcssrs, Martineli. laurent and Roth
ier Mr.. Hasselmans conducting
"Die Walkucre" at popular prices on
Saturday night, with Mines. Easton,
Matzenaucr and Gordon. and Messrs
Kingston, Nhitchiil and Gustafaon.
Nj Bodanzky conducting
At to-night's opera concert the pro
gram will consist Of excerpts from sev-
eral operas The artists who VIII take
part viii be Mmes. Bori. Amman. IL
fany and Telva, and Messrs Chamles
Sembach Caupo,ican and Gustafson.
Mr. Pcllc'ier viii conduct the or
chestra.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-19

means Of feeding, 80 that they followed
her about, which naturally caused
great jubilation. At the end OF the act
the goose girl appeared before the
curtain with goose under her arm
and pinched 1t somewhere so that the
dear little animal quacked loudly. The
public was rejoiccd and thought it
"lovely." Full of envy; I went on the
stage and told my colleague that at
the next performance of "Lohengrin"
l should give thanks to the public with
my swan under my arm. Triumphantly
she said: "Do it, if you want to-; but
it will never quack because It's
stuffed!"
Wo were in Chicago. In Ringling's
Circus-Ringling is Barnum g. Bailey's
successor-a camel was born My COL
league, Emily Destinn, and were invited
to be the godparcnts at the christening
Of the beast. We drove to the circus
it was in forcnoon--and thus the
camel was baptized in the presence Of
the press by hanging wreath of
laurel around its neck, and my dear
Emmy gave him, the camel, the name
Leo" Thercupon wreath Of laurel
was also put around my neck. A great
noise, and I was photographed along
with my namcsake, with Dcs.inn on
enc side. The newspapers had material
to last for a space. While we were
leaving the circus | solcmnly declared:
Dear Emmy, let me assure you Of this:
The next rnnoceros born into ,his
New-York tribune., 1922-02-19
Rand School Concert

The Lett Quartet will play at the
Rand School Of Social Science, East
Fifteenth Street. tomorrow evening.
The concert will begin at 8:40 and the
program will include Brahms's Quartet
in B fiat Major; Beethoven's Cavatina,
Op. 1870, and Manuetto and Fugue, Op.
SO; Glazounow's In Modo Antico and
Borodin'a Allegro Risoluto. Samuel
Jospsr will be the assisting artist.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-19
How Artists Are introduced

In the advance notices In tho cities
visited by the Metropolitan Opera Com.
pany when it went on tour something
was said Of all tho artists who were
prominent as stars. Something special
Of each one. OF me 1t WAS said that I
was Czechish giant, six feet and four
inches tall, weighing 800 pounds; of
my colleague Dinh Gilly, who is an
Arab, the columns related that at home
he walked around clad only In q shirt
with turban on his head, and that it
caused him immeasurablo pain if he
could not cross his legs when he sat
down. Something characteristic was
told about every one.
Now, we had q colleague named Ss-
gurola, who wore monocle-his COM
panions said that ho slept with 1t in
his eye. Mr.. Gads could think Of
nothing striking to say about Segurola,
though he was a great artist, 80 he
wrote:
Mr. segurola is the only man in
the company who under his contract
IS permitted to wear a caramella, a
monocle."
The American public is immensely
naive and ingenious in respect Of news
paper notices and devours the most in
credible nonsense with Touching enjoy
mont. No other public would submit
to the comedies enacted before the
curtain when artists are called out. A
famous and fascinating colleague, an
American, sang the goose girl in Hum
perdinck's fairy opera "Konigskinder."
A little flock Of geese was trained, by
New-York tribune., 1922-02-19

What's the goats name?
Dinorah!
Spell It.
D-ei~n- o-ar-e citsch (h)
Fine. What does she eat?
Liver dumplinge.
Oh, very interesting. How old is
she?
Three quarters Of year.
OH Is that so?
Tho turtle also meets with apprecia.
ton; but 1t is doubted If she wacs her
tail
I swear that It is true. Great SEN
sation.
Slezak Is crazy---is gone mad. He
sings only when he has goat on
tether,
On tho arrival at Hoboken Mr.. Han
sci, my manager, is at the pier-with
cinema operator. We wait till all the
other passengers have disembarked;
then a few photographs on the high
seas arc taken-on the captains
bridge. either hold a telescope in
my hand or stare at tho compass. Then
70 the promenade deck, In the chairs,
my entire family grouped around me
all the animals, the goat as tho chief
attraction. l assume the transfigured
expression Of the fortunate father Of
family
AT last we leave tho ship, greet an
enthusiastic multitude, which shout, its
jubilations-but isn't even present
This picture is intended for all the
moving picture theaters of America.
particularly for those in the cities in
which l am to give concerts
Henceforth the goat follows me
everywhere.
ooh, Mr.. Slezak whero Is your pet
goat"
Whence I derived all my evasion.
don't know; but ono day I announced
with voice that trembled with emo
tion: "Dnorah is dcad!" She took III
Of a piece Of goulash, which I stupidly
gave her to cat, got stage fright and
all was overl
Where did she die7
In Washington-Palace Hotel, twen-
ty-first story Room No. 24YO
Is that so?
Yes, that's SO.
After q few condolences and a.sux-
ances that would sing without goat
--one must not bo too superstitious---
was at last rid Of this phantom.
1t had been borrowed from a Polish
Jew in the steerage.
Ono day / read In the newspapers
that the only cause of my great stature
and strength was that IN my youth I
had always gone barefoot. also sang
in bare feet. 1t was good for the voice
In Wakefield the public was very in
dignant because I wore patent leather
boots.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-19
Toscaninl and a
COnceitcd Prima Donna

Though concerned chiefly with the
humorous incidents Of his career, Mr.,
Slezak occasionally INDUCES in ser-
Gus estimates of his colleagues in art.
After telling about a joke which he
played upon Signor Toscannini in Gin
cinnati, he publishes an admirable and
discriminating culogy Of the con-
ductor, in the course Of which he re-
latcs the following anecdotc:
greatly spirited prima donna who
enjoyed high favor with the New York
public sang at rehearsal for tho first
time under Toscannni and permitted
herself to take a few Irregularities with
the rhythms and freedom with the
tempt. Toscannini pushed ahead with
tho orchestra and commanded, "Avanti,
avanti, sgnorina."
The singer lost her temper and said
very energetically: maestro, Gel
dirigere come 10 canto, 10 canto una
stella" C'Master, you must conduct as
| sing, for / am u star.")
He raped for silence, waited till
everything was still as a mouse and
sharply retorted: "Signorina le stellc
sono sui tirmamento. Qui siamo ar
tisti, buoni cattivi. Lei siete una
New-York tribune., 1922-02-19

cattiva artista." ("Mss, the stars are
in the sky. Here VIC are artists good
and bad. You are a bad artist!")
Raped on his desk and tho rehearsal
proceeded.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-19

Additiou0I music nelcs ariU
be- found on last page Of this
section.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-27

lie every ounce of flesh they were
able to extract; they have never yield
ed until they had fought every inch
of the way and exhausted every REM
edy known to law; they have demand
ed of communities rights of way, sta
ton sites and bonuses; they have re-
ceived from the hands Of the gov
ernment enormous tracts of land to
induce them to extend their lines, un-
til today their properties are worth
s2o,0OO,Oo0 100000.
''Yet, while you and ! and the world
are sleeping after a days work, these
railroad employees, who are severely
censured when they stand up for what
they deem to be their rights, and even
threaten to strike, must go out into
the night and into the storm and rain,
doing their part to keep the wheels
of trade moving and to silence the
howl of the wolf at the door. Shall
we condemn the man for using the
only weapon for his defense that he
has ."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-27
Ma M A nn -
is MINORITY TO RULE?

Assistant County Prosecutor John
D. Andrews has the legislation all pre-
pared for the selling of the bonds
and advertising for bids for the
bridge near Coke Otto, and was pre-
pared to submit the same to the
county commissioners on last Satur-
day. But it seems that a committee
of farmers and few people from
Middletown appeared before the COM
missioners and asked the commission
ers to set time when those they rep
resent might appear before the COM
missioners and submit a protest
against building the bridge. The
county commissioners set Friday OF
this week as the time when they
would hear the protest.
This means another week of delay.
1t seems there are a few people in
Butler county (mostly from Middle
town. who are determined to do
everything they can to hold up this
improvement as long as they can,
and stop it altogether if they can,
and it looks very much as though a
majority of the county commissioners
are ready to acquiesce in any move
ment to further its hindrance
What if few hundred people do
protest against the bridge, or even a
few thousand, why should the county
commissioners continue to dilly-dally
with it when the great majority of the
county's voters cast their vote for it :?
At the election held last November
year ago, 1882 citizens of Butler
county voted $390,000 to build the
bridge and 13,004 voted against it,
clear majority of 1888. And this
vote ran right along with the vote
cast for the county officials elected
that year, including the county COM
missioners, showing the keen interest
of the voters in the project and that
they voted their sentiments.
Now is the will of these 1852 in
the majority to be cast aside and
totally ignored because few hun
dred (and we are making all allow
ances) people throughout the county
are making loud noise against this
propose big improvement which will
benefit the whole county? Isn't the
big majority to have any voice in the
matter at all? Doesn't their vote
count? Are they to be disfranchised ?
Has it come to this, that a small
minority is to rule the affairs of But
Ter county?
With all the faults of the county
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-27

and north ends of the city the Press
doesn't believe it to be wise policy
tthat is, politically on the part of
the city officials to interfere with the
iitneys so long as there is to be only
15-minute car service on North
Third and East High streets. Fifteen
minutes is a long time to wait for a
car and the riders won't do it, espe-
cially when there is jitney shooting
by about every four minutes. It is
to be hoped, however, that the re-
ceiver and manager will be able to
figure out some way so that Third
street and High street riders will
also receive the benefit of the better
car service
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-27
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middlet0wn Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown. O
TRIBUTE To LABOR

President Harding receives $4,000
per annum as the head of nation
of more than 100,0o0,000, people and
president of the Pennsylvania rail-
road is paid s65, ,460 per annum, said
Congressman Parks, of Arkansas.
Looking back across the years of
the beginning of the life of organized
labor and the day of starvation wages
what do we fnd?" he asked
Without organized labor, without
their battle for a just and fair wage
and reasonable hours Of work, what
would have been the conditions of labor
today?
at was only at the command of the
congress of the United States that the
railroads equipped their trains with
safety appliances for the protection
of the lives and limbs of those who
drive the locomotive, set the brakes
or direct the train. / recall that
again and again these men, seeking
to earn their bread in the sweat OF
their faces-men who were free and
not slaves-found it necessary to ap-
peal to the lawmakers, and the gov
ernment once more stepped in ano
said that a man should not be re.
quired to work more than sixteer
hours a day; and then, when the day
of fast trains, with the increased
hours incident thereto came, and with
the terrible responsibilities of life anC
property in the hands of the employees
they again found it necessary to ap
peal to the government to say whar
should be days work
From the day the first piece O.
steel was laid until this hour, tn,
roads have demanded from the labor
ers all that physical endurance would
permit; they have taken from the pub
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-27
IN m ss ma ~
ANOTHER FINAL" HEARING

Another final hearing on the Sc
lection of route for deep water
way from the Ohio river to the Great
Lakes was held by the United States
engineers in Cincinnati this week.
w. B. Mayo, Hamilton man and chief
engineer for the Ford Motor Co.;
Albert Krell, president of the Inland
Waterways Association; George Yer
ity, of Middletown; Rev. B. F
Welty, of Lima, and who is known as
"the father of the project" and 9th
ers appeared before Uncle Sans en-.
gineers and presented arguments
showing why Miami and Erie canal
route would be best to adopt for the
purpose. Here is hoping the boosters
will be successful in putting it over
but the Press would advise against
holding ones breath until they do, as
the time for holding the next final
hearing has not as yet been fixed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-27
PROHIBITION SURE A JOKE

PROHlBlIION SUkE A JUNE
Prohibition enforcement officers are
seeking some way to prohibit vaude-
vile audiences laughing at jokes about
the non-enforcement of the dry laws
the funniest things on the statute
books today
Time was when Uncle Sans laws
were taken seriously-when the
thought that the secret service was on
the trail was merely the preliminary
to the deed of punishment.
The enforcement of the prohibition
law is a joke-because no one believes
it is being enforced How many men
good, outstanding citizens whose
word you would take any time as
quickly as you would their bond-do
you know who have committed the
heinous crime of buying illicit liquor
How many of your neighbors-
kindly, matronly ladies and elderly
honest citizens who love their homes
and their firesides land their carpet
slippers-do you know who have a
dozen bottles of home brew yeasting
in their cellar?
Now, we don't pretend to defend
these people In the eyes of the law
they are criminals. But they are not
being punished.
The well-to-do man gets as much
hard liquor as he ever got-more
probably. 1t is not as of good
quality; it makes him want to fight
| more quickly than the old-fashioneo
kind, and it costs him good dea
more. Also, he can't buy it quite as
| openly as once upon a time. But out
side of these differences there is M
change
Some bootleggers have gone to jail
| A good many more have paid fines
But how many reputable citizens cal
you recall having been fined? Ant
how many imprisoned? A very small
percentage-an infnitesimal portion
of the number of those who hav'
broken the laws.
Why, then, shouldn't these folk
laugh when they hear a prohibition
joke cracked on the stage?
Prohibition-if it wasn't making ;
ma. of law violators--would b.
funny.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-27

commissioners, and which we have
pointed out in the past, we can't be-
lieve that they are SO narrow-minded
as to forget their bounden duty, the
oath they took when taking their of
fice to serve ALL the people and
the promises they made when solicit
ing votes for their candidacy that
with them the will of the majority
should ever prevail if they were elect
ed.
Just think what this Improvement is
going to mean to the county as a
whole. 1t means the opening up and
the development of the northern end
of the county, and no part of the coun-
ty is going to be more benefited by
this development than is Middletown
1t means, too, the chances of new
gas supply for both Middletown and
Hamilton, and goodness knows it be-
gins to look as though we are going
to need it shortly as the natural gas
supply seems to be running low
Another thing, the increased valua
tion on the land and property to be
developed by reason of the opening ur
of North Third street and the new
bridge will in taxes alone more thar
make up for the original expenditure
for the Improvement.
All in all, it is to be big thing fol
the whole county, and should be M
longer delayed Let us have more
action and less stalling
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-27

strong that the federal and state gov
ernments are attempting to patch of
the decayed hulk and induce the work
ers to again take passage.
AT recent conference, held in Mel
bourne, the federal and state pre-
miers proposed to establish COM
bined court of commonwealth and
state judges to determine the basic
wage, the number of hours to be
worked and to act as court of ap-
peal from all other industrial trib-
unals.
The Australian trade unionists do
not respond to the suggestion, and
the Australian Worker, published in
Sydney, New South Wales, issue of
November l9, calls the scheme more
horsehair and ermine.''
"The state premiers and the COM
monwealth prime minister" says this
paper, may tinker with arbitration
as they please. They may create
another court and appoint additional
judges at high salaries to fix low
wages for the worker
Labor looks on quite unconcern-
ed. 1t has formed its own plans and
| they are in no way connected with
horsehair interpretations of justice
"The fact of the matter is, the sys-
tenn of legal arbitration is founded
on gross anomaly.
Judges do not have to appear be-
fore a tribunal of working men anc
submit their household and personal
accounts to examination, and bring
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-27
WILL PROBE FURNITURE
OPPOSE COSSACKS

Frankfort, Ky.-Organized labor
has perfected plans to resist the es
tablishment of the cossack system in
this state. The unionists will also
ask the legislature to repeal sedition
law, which empowers any constable
to stop a meeting that he believes is
liable to create discord" in the COM
munity.
When he signed the law, Governor
Morrow acknowledged it's unconstitu
tionality.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-27
ACCIDENTS ARE COSTLY

Harrisburg, Pain the six years
the state workmen's compensation
law has been in existence, $59, 9,039 ,651
have been expended by employers and
liability companies for compensation
insurance. Of this sum $50, 1S3, ,79O
has been paid, and the remainder is
yet to be distributed under the allot-
ment plan.
During the six years 1876 fatal
tiles have been reported The serious
injuries to workers total 410,193, and
the minor injuries, 709,701.
pa - Pa
WILL pRORE EIIRNITIIRE
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-27
UTTER FAILURE
Is Forced Arbitration Prov
ing to be i'm Australia

Washington.-W While employers in
this country are urging industrial
courts to stop strikes, and set wages,
Australian organized workers are
fighting this system, according to
trade union publications from that
country received at A. F. of L. head
quarters.
The opposition has become so
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-27

With the proposed million dollar
building program of the Miami Uni
versity at Oxford soon to be begun,
the new electric light plant, the ex-
tension of North Third street, and
new bridge near Coke Otto, the ru-
mored three million dollar steel plant
at Coke Otto and other proposed
building improvements, all in sight,
the building trades and men seeking
outdoor employment should worry
about the coming of spring. 'Tis a
wonderful dream-if only Middletown
would please go way and let US
sleep"
Es m va Ea Ea
With the big wet and dry fight
looming up the congressional candi-
dates are certainly going to be in hot
stew. The vets have learned some
thing from the drys in conducting
campaigns. 1t is going to be case
of "are you for or against" wet or
dry, when the candidates step forth
and in some districts where "she's'
close there will be some scratching
behind the ears caused