Show I j I l Ganna k Is Shy to Reporters Report rs NEW tEW YORK Feb 16 Mme 16 Mme Ganna Valska singer and tInd wife wile of Harold I F. F McCormick sailed today on n. n the to appear It was understood ri as The Th Madonna in a production of Tho The Miracle in Paris Pails Mme declined to discuss the t report pc t bu t it was rs ts given yen cre- cre c 0 t. t Wo- Wo ances ance of oil tho curl curren 1 heros liere and and- held conference eo With Morris Gest the producer In her cabin before departure aboard the tho f Karl IurI rl V eller author of the 11 play y and 1 several everal The prima do donna na tried to avoid reporters and when hen they surrounded surround surround- ed her she said nothing was wai was to be add added d to a previous formal announcement an an- an announcement announcement that she was to give a Mozart program In the Theatre Champs El ees which Mr McCormick Mc Mc- lc Cormick purchased for her In Paris I When the reporters became in insistent insistent In In-I Mme Valska lect lectured red them for prying Into the private affairs of ot private p p I fI I once liked Am America Yer very much she said but you men with all the things you write and say make malte me like it now much less The newspaper men men have spoiled eve everything thing In Europe they do not adt act or behave as y you u do here They do not ask asle questions I I of ot a man or womans woman's private life They do not intrude Here that Is all all the newspaper men do She declined to go above decks to accommodate a score of at photographers photographers I raphers but after atter much persuasion permitted one photograph to be betaken betaken betaken taken In her cabin Mr McCormick was not present and she explained upon request that he then theis' was confined to home by a severe severo cold She added also upon request he would Join her In Europe where she intends to remain a year |