The Washington times., 1924-04-02
LOVE RULES ALL,
CALL|-CURC|
FINDS
Romance Is Woman's World,
. Singer Adds, Danouncjng
Modern FemInism.
BY J. q. CROWN.
oOSmoDoIitAn News Service.

cOsmoDoIitAn News Service.
i NEW ORLEANS, La, April g.
"Feminism!" said Amelia CALI.
Curci. THE modern woman! Inde.
pendsnce! Sex equalityl Bahg'
There were capital letters and ex.
clamatiop points in every word of
every phrase as the singer hurled
them explosively at her inter-
terviewer.
Then the fury with which she
had hurled the slogans Of the fem
iniSts gave way to a smile, in which
her dark eyes sparlSIed and her
white teeth showed.
Forget all that foolishness," she
implored. "It has so little to do
with lie. It IL the hystericai battle
cry OF women who want something
ana DO not ''now what they want.
do you know what are the only
things really worth while for any
!, woman? The only things that give
this old world the beauty for which
1t hungers, whether 1t knows It or
not?
/ Love and Romance Rules.
II will tell you what they are:
Love and Romance. There IL no
beauty OF music or of art that has
ever been born Of any other
parentage than love and romance.
The whole-hearted love Of one man
for one woman and Of one woman
Tor one man.
The world IL full Of mediocre
stuff that passes under the name of
art and music and literature. But
the great work, the work that il
immortal-that was done because
some one man loved some woman
who In her being was to him that
wonderful. elusive, miraculous, glow
ing thing we call romance.
Let the cynics and the cheap
] scoffers say what they will. They
will say 1t anyway. The world Is
deafened by the clatter Of many
loose tongues. But every man who
really loves and every woman who
really loves-they know that !
speak truth.
Home Career Is Best.
There is no greater career in all
this world for any woman than to
win the whole love of some man:
to love him In return with all that
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them to make home for him.
! II tell you that. I, Amelia CALI.
Curci. And there are those who say
that have a successful career.
They tell you the truth. Only the
successful career that have is not
the successful career Of which they
speak.
1T is my home and my husband.
OF which I am thinking, while they
are thinking of my singing. And
II / had to choose this minute be-
tween singing more Tnarvelously
than ever woman sang on this
earth before. and giving up home
and husband. do you think would
hesitate for a second9
My voice would be stilled for
ever before that moment had
passed. And love to sing.
Recalls Dante and Petrarch.
"Could Dante have written Of
Beatrice for any woman who talked
palshlp and feminisfn and. indie
pendence and sex equality--and
lived them? It took love and ro-
nance and veiled beauty to leave
that moment behind.
Gould Petrarch have written as
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been a modern woman? Show me
spired such moment OF beauty In
this world.
"You know the "Tristran and
Isolde Of Wagner. It is a pity that
lat had to be written under the inspi-
lration of his love for the wife Of
his friend, but so 1t was written.
Under the inspiration of his love for
the one woman who meant all Of
love and romance to him.
THE modern woman Is making q
mistake in her clamor for sex
Equality, largely because the old sex
inequality erred so greatly in favor
lof the woman. And for the rest, be.
Ecause there is such a thing as pay
ing too high a price for anything.
Yes, even for equality in politics
and industry and sex, and all the
Irest.
Woman Has Lost Much.
woman has lost much Of her
fennininity and almost all Of mans
chivalry. That Is no small price
for what she has gained-and what
has she gained?
Il As a matter Of fact, God was
far more generous to woman than
to man, but now. I suppose, the
silly women must find ont by ex.
perience before they or their daugh.
tiers come back to their own sphere
to reclaim their heritage.
"Feminists sneer at the old
phrase, 'woman's sphere is the
home But 1t is true. I'm afraid
those shouters for sex equality will
not find 1t out until 1t is too late"
Beside her sat Homer Samuels
her young faced, smiling husband,
who Is her accompanist, too. It was
while ne was playing the accompani.
ment to her singing that their