Show VILL STARS CLASH I Ennles and Calve May Make the Op eratie Season Excitins Tlieir Historic His-toric Battle They ViII Sins Together To-gether for tlie FirstTime in Three YeztrsCah Romantic Career NEW YORK Nov 6In a trifle over a week the dear of the great Metropolitan opera house will be thrown open for the grand opera season I sea-son of 96S7 This is the yearly slgsoJ for society to discard its horsey clothes and sporting togs co open its Strongboxes Strong-boxes and lift out its blazing jewels to gown Itself dn the gorgeous fabrics from Worth and Felix for debutants to appear in their first low cut gowns and for the multiplicity of events vhioh mark the opening of the season in town After these folk who pay 3000 or 4000 for the pleasure of sitting in a box for 18 or 20 nights have arranged the important preliminaries of their initial in-itial appearance in town they will settle set-tle down to wonder about the opera And unless all signs fall it will be a season of note In the first place it will be the first time in its history > that grand opera will be sung in the Metropolitan Met-ropolitan without the supervision of the incomparable Abbey who did more to bring the musical stars of the earth to this country than any other dozen men dead cr living The particular event whicCa promises to make the S3cson interesting to the public at large as well as to the people peo-ple prcfesstaiciily concerned in opera maters will be the meeting between the great Emma Calve and the scarcely ler a groat Emma Eaanec Three yeaxs have passed stace there artists appeared ap-peared simultaneousCy in the Metropolitan Metropol-itan company and when that season ended the mutual jejalousy of iJhe two ladJ2s wa7 so fervid that It was predicted pre-dicted that they could never be brought together again TEMPERS OF OPPOSITE TYPES Operatic singers have never been famous fa-mous for amiability and Calve and Eames are not exceriiions R would lea le-a difficult mattcr for an umpire to decide de-cide vSiCclh of the artists excelled in adhesion ad-hesion to this rule Cattves temper is of th explosive kind Her anger blazes forth with the powlEr of fVesuvius in erupcion Her Ire tears along like a tornado arid is Soon spent Eames is less exDlosCve but her an rer is more enduring She had the faculty of converting con-verting herself into a lump of animated ice and ice to the warm blooded impetuous im-petuous Calve is a uaing of dread Naturally Eames thinks she is the superior of Calve aitisrically and I Calve olds t to the opposite belief The first round of this interesting battle terminated in EameV favor too when she sang in the MetropOlitan in the I season of 9495 Ca remained I abroad for they sro Jbcth agreed on I i one thing and that wdkthat they could i never sing Ira the s ime company because be-cause one would have to play second II fiddCe to the other Oalve won the second round of tSief battle as sCie sang here last year and scored a greater triumph than any operatic artist ar-tist since the ballaH sin ins days al Jenny Lind Eames1 sang abroad last year and won considerable fame The third round of the battle is now about to begin Both artists have their ro 1 1 auuu < cu He < D LU U1V 1JVJUltll with the public but Eames is the stronger with the swell folk In fact if the cause of the trouble between the artsts were sifted flown it would be found that society was at the bottom of it Eames htfs a aptly understanding of her social importance Calve doesnt care a rap about social distinctions She has a healthy opinion of her own worth and a robust objection to being snubbed It wua said at the time of the first row between the artists that Eames ignored the existence of Calve in all social matters and Calve was quick to rake affront CALVE STRONU POSITION Calve It ssems sh uTd have the best of the battle thIs YEar She gets several sev-eral hundred dollars a night more than Eames and moreover wttl practically have the say about what she will do and win not do Of course she will sag in Carmen La Navarraise and Cavalleiria Rusticaino If she fancies fan-cies other roles she wMl probaby be given them even If her selection treads upon the toes of her rival Calves life has been a peculiar one and in a way justifies many of her eccentricities ec-centricities She is an extraordinarily beautiful woman with dreamy brown eyes masses of soft black hair and a superb figure She is gorgeous when gowned in the habiliments of the conventional con-ventional society woman but when clothed In a mixture of sashes kerchiefs ker-chiefs an apron and skirt all ragged she is ravishing She is a veritable gypsy in inclination as well as looks Her father was a mountaineer of Aver Ave-r n in the south of France The people of that section are different from those of the rest of France Centuries ago their ancestors fled to these mountains to escape the ravages of the invading Romans and their descendents have lived there ever since Calves mother was a Spanish woman It is the Spanish Span-ish blood in her veins which gives Calve hor peculiar power in Carmen The country around Aveyron is greatly beloved by Calve Two years ago when she had amassed a considerable fortune she returned to it and purchased a thousandyearold castle called Cabriere with SOO acres of land This castle was the great delight of her childhood but in her rosiest dreams she never fancied that she would one day own it She was 16 years old when she was taken from the convent to Paris to study for the lyric stage Her father had died whenshe was ten leaving his widow and hyo children next to nothing noth-ing For three years the girl studied and finally made her debut in Brussels In Faust She was a success as a singer but a failure as an actress A HIDDEN ROMANCE Then CalvefellIn love If was the first time and the last She never talks about this but her friends say she will never marry Herlove affair did not prosper she became ill and almost died She returned to her native home in Aveyron pnd while she suffered there waiting for renewed health she studied as nest sne cpuju the art of acting Calve says Nobne can be an artist except througlrsufferlng No one can portray despair except by feeling it and no one can shadow forth love until love has taken possession of the heart Calve is a Roman Catholic but her religion is tinged with occultism She believes in reincarnation Previous to this life she says she was a bird Mme dHardelot her inseparable companion and secretary she declares was formerly former-ly a horse because madame has so much energy and such great love for horses Calve Is superstitious She has an amulet of Hindostan make set with a topaz which she wears night and day She has never appeared on the stag without it It was stolen in Italy some 1i b 1ii S I years ago and she refused id sing until her manager had recovered It by giving the thief a large sum This eccentric woman fears that she may be drowned and to her death by water is a most I frightful end Of this the says Give me fire give me heat give me flames burn me up but oh the waves It is a trying ordeal for her to make an oceaa voyage as she lives in perpetual fear during the entire trip |