Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-11

| half of the May day program of the
| American Child Health Association, of
which President Hoover is the head.
Not only will 1t be Gloria's first pub
lie appearance. 1t will be her last for
some time to come. Gloria is living as
simple and secluded a childhood as it
would be possible for the daughter of
/ Enrico Caruso to live.
This is not easy. For Glorias re-
semblance to her father is more than
a superficial thing of eyes and coloring
: and srpile. Experts who were friends
of Caruso say that his daughter has
| throat exactly like hiS-the same
| has voice Of extraordinary range and
| great promise.
Will Return to Sorrento.
| John Mccormack has suggested that
| Gloria's mother take her to California
this Summer and let him start the
| training of her voice.
Instead, however, she and her mother
are going back to Sorrento, Italy, where
her father died 10 years ago next Au-
gust 1t will be Gloria's first visit to
Sorrento since that time.
i have tried to keep that Summer
in Sorrento alive in Gloria's mind
not the end, but the first part, that was
so beautiful and so happy" her mother
said today. She was only a year and
half old then, but she almost thinks
| she can remember walking in the gar
den with her father"
The training of Gloria's voice will
not begin until she Is l6, because her
father believed that no singer should
start studying voice until that age.
But, although her mother is not anxious
for her to become an opera singer and
rather hopes she won't, she is being
given the ground work-languages and
the piano. CaruSo believed that every
child should start piano lessons at the
age Of 5. Gloria did.
Miniature Of Father.
In temperament Gloria Is a NINA
| ture Of her father" said her mother.
She has his great love for music. She
apparently has inherited some Of his
gift for caricature-She draws and
paints very we'll
She has her fathers hunor and his
generosity. Caruso could never pass .
beggar in the street. He gave a third
OF his fortune. Gloria can't pass beg
gars either"
There is a deeper sympathy between
Gloria and her father Until two years
ago she used to love to listen to his
| records and played them all the time.
She can't any more.
Gloria couldn't explain it," her
mother said, but I think the Italians
have a word that would explain it-a
word that means a vast loneliness, a
great, vague longing for something out
side of yourself"
Gloria likes to talk about her father.
She is almost f1ercely proud Of him.
After listening to the recent broadcast
/ from, the Vatican, she said to her
mother, Was my fathers voice heard
all around the world, too? Was it heard
in China?"
Wrote to MuSS0Iini.
About three years ago MuSsolini re-
ceiVed one day a letter written in the
sprawling uniformed hand of a little
girl and, her mother fears. in not very
good Italian. 1t started out something
like this:
Il, Gloria Caruso, the daughter of
Enrlco Caruso, ask you to send me your
| photograph"
And tackled on the end, in English,
was postscript which read:
Please don't forget to dedicate it to
me-"
She got the photograph, autographed
"A Gloria Caruso."
In fairness to Gloria" her mother
said. L am giving her the groundwork
10 become an operate singer, but I am
inclined to think that she won't.
In the first place, some incentive will
De lacking. Gloria will have money of
her own.
And for her an operate career would
| be terribly difficult. Can't YOU hear
them all saying. She gets by because
she is CaruSo's daughter So she would
nave 10 surpass him, don't you see?"