Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-09-27
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not looking amused or satiric, could
look very kind.
She wrote that after the play they
had gone to the studio of the Prin-
cess Sochoff, the great pianist, who
had played for her while. she sang,
Isl mes vers avient des ailes," and
the aria from Butterfly" The Prin-
cess had played much faster than
Prof. Jimmy. She had said that
Mabel must work with her great
friend Pietro Cenci. She would ar
range an addition very soon.
Concerning Iorilard Morgan she
wrote that she thought he was man.
ager of the New York Press He
had told her that F'iglione was going
to Europe for the Winter.
80 that's that" she ended. "In
the Spring. when he comes back, per-
haps l shall be all the better for
waiting"
She told Herbie that she missed
him.
There are so many things here
that are different" she wrote. II
wish we could talk about them. Writ
ing Is so hard"
One Of the things she would have
liked to talk about was Rose Stanley
She doubted If Rose were the kind of
woman Herbie would admire. That
artistic. What Mabel had disliked
most had been that Miss Stanley had
not praised her singing. MarSie had
gasped. Pinky had said. Great work
Kid
Even Lorlllard Morgan had told her
without a suggestion of laughter in
his eyes. that while any one could see
her as she sang, 1t was difficult to re-
member that he should listen rather
than look.
"Will you sing some time again."
he asked, while shut my eyes?"
She did not tell Herbie that, nor
that Rose Stanley had not said one
complimentary word. After 'Si mes
vers," she had even said, You must
learn French"
After the aria, she had said. "You
must work with my friend Pietro
Cenci. He may know how to DO"
* v + x
MABEL was able to let Herbie
Az know. in a few days, that the
addition with Pietro Cenci has passed
off gloriously. and that she was an
accepted pupil. rate $40 an hour, paid
in advance. Cenci had been more
than kind. He had told her that he
was a builder of voices, and would
add three half tones to her upper
register inside three months. Prof..
Timmy's methods had been totally in
adequate and in fact erroneous. The
tone was neither thrown forward
against the teeth nor felt against the
eyebrows. The maestro threw a few
of his own tones against his teeth and
eyebrows, and Mabel realized that no
sounds ever made by Prof. Jimmy had
resembled these sounds. AS an emf
nent exponent OF bel canto, he spoke
to her of timbre and tonal beauty as
no one had ever spoken.
Mabel left the studio treading on
air. She had told him that she wished
to make her debut at the Metropolitan
In six months, and he had told her,
as he bowed her out in his polite,
foreign manner. to leave all to him.
AS she walked toward the elevated.
however. she thought somewhat seri-
ously of the French and Italian les
sons that could be had at SO an hour.
with q tutor whom he could place at
her disposal.
The sum total was rather stagger-
ing. 1t made her decide upon sharing
Margie's drawing-room apartment
that had. on her first night, seemed
rather crowded and cluttered. Margie
and Pinky were paying a hundred dol
lars a month for it, a colossal bargain
for New York. Yet, unless a third
partner could share it, they were con-
sidering letting it go, and taking some