The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
ELEANOR PAINTER
 SCORES BIG HIT IN BERLIN OPERA
Japanese Prima Donna Also Becomes Madame
 Butterfly Favorite

BERLIN, Nov. 29.-Two Madame Butterflys whom the tenor could carry off the stage have been the sensation of the Berlin opera season. Eleanor Painter, the American prima donna, and Teiko Kiva, a real Japanese prima don na, sare the two small women who have charmed Berlin opera-goers with their interpretation of Puccini's heroine which was characterized by high dra- matic art, as well as excellent singing.
 Singers who are vocalists, rather than actors, have heretofore been as- signed to the role in Berlin operas; so Miss Painter was much discussed when she gave an intensely dramatic perform ance, in which Franz Kirchner, the tenor, who was playing Lieutenant Fullerton, U. s. N., picked her up and carried her off the stage; Some of the critics apparently were surprised to see the acting possibilities of Puccini's works when Miss Painter broke the ice but they were inclined to believe that her interpretation did not embody the Japanese spirit.
 However, Teiko Kiva gave an equally dramatic performance and fortified the position, of the American singer who has been engaged for a number of addi- tional guest performances.
 The Berlin Golf club will throw open it's new eighteen-hole course next year and restore golf to the popularity it was beginning to enjoy in Germany when the war broke out. The new club is between Berlin and Potsdam in a pie turesque location overlooking a series of lakes and rugged setting of hills and pine woods. The new club house is already completed and workmen are rushing the work on the course which had been stopped for period.
 The old nine-hole course at Spandau will be abandoned by the club as made quate. The diplomatic corps, especially the American, Japanese and British embassies, are much interested in golf. The Oberhof nine hole course in Thuringia is also being extended to an 1S-hole course to meet the demands of foreign patrons.
 Bremen has Germany's most flourish ing golf clubs, thanks to the large American and English colony of cot ton men living in that port. Baden Baden, Hamburg, Wiesbaden, Munich, Frankfort, Cologne and Dresden also have golf courses.
 A report that some of the historic tapestries in Wartburg castle at Eisen- ach had ben removed and sold created a great storm in the German press. This was followed by statement from the castle trustee that the famous Gobe- lins had not been tuoched and that the rumor arose from the transfer from the castle, of few personal possessions of the grand duchess of Saxe-W eimarto to her home in Silesia, Castle Heinricheau.
 Wartburg is Germany's most beloved castle, perhaps because of Luther's i'm prisonment there, during which he translated the Bible.
 American tourists are especially numerous at Wartburg. Many of them are members of the society known as friends of Wartburg" which was organized to preserve the castle. Scarce ly q week passes that some religious, philosphic, scientific or artistic society does not hold confernece in Wart- burg.
 Justus Perthes' printing house, which issues the Almanach De Gotha, an an- nual genealogical, diplomatic and statistical publication embracing the entire world, has strike among it's printers and bookbinders and conse- quently it's 1925 number will be some what delayed. It probably will not be available before March.