| Show r Opera e re a where she has most of her grand grand operatic operatic There were calls to Amer- Amer f ca ca engagements engagement contracts tours al- al But the soprano remained a 0 a Paris with all it its clouds of af war I It Itt t is Zeppelin bombs and its returning I Int ripples and dead She I ent v-ent nt about to the hospitals she S sang sangor or the wounded and suffering And Anda III a arIs is complimented her as the only I. I American diva dIv who had remained to her In her Latin BI arter carter apartment with her mother nd nd her pets Mme Mine Sylva was bearing Ir ae Ie ae war bravely but none nane too gayly AIso soon after the war broke out outran Kuan ran roan named Smith was sent lent to Paris t oi it a warlike mission SIn Since e there K r re many any of af that name his parents ad ad supplied him with the additional Bernard L. L and an ex- ex alent ent school situated at Annapolis id prepared him for or the great wei weight ht Ithe the title Lieutenant This young young I I Observe again War war war Monsieur Smeeth as Paris certainly certain certain- ly called the Lieutenant was not longin long longIn In in getting enough of this war business busi busi- ness A few trips out aut over the lines to observe trench warfare from the birds bird's viewpoint and the thing palls on one A few adventures about darkened drear foreign Paris and andone andone andone one longs for the frivolities of Kansas City or Waco To the sailor man the idea of being pinned down to a desk at the American Embassy at Par Paris after he J iia 33 a found out out all there is isto isto isto I to be found about military flying is the quintessence of boredom Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- Lieutenant tenant Bernard L. L Smith U. U S. S Marine Corps FlYing Plying Wing was getting b borr foor- foor red r- r ed eder r and That is to say he was on the border of revolt And then then then- madame A passport Certainly But you are in the wrong wrong office I will conduct you Perfectly welcome I assure you Pleasures Pleasure's all al mine Right here Mr Blank a lady to have her passport looked leaked after after Ahem Ahem Good afternoon madame And next neat By the way Mr aIr Blank I wonder if I may ask who was the the pippin er pippin with the passport a few minutes ago Sylva Hum Oh yes the singer I s see e. e Some looks what One cannot charge Li ut Smith with haying baring done this reprehensible I thing in just this way but knowing I something something-of of the direct methods of these aviator persons one is inclined to believe that the guess isn isn't t bad Sylva eh The more the flyer thought about the singer the more he was convinced that some looks was right I All i saw or heard was a a. pair of I Ithe the largest deepest most expressive I eyes ever were and a voice like liko a gold bell he told a friend afterward afterward afterward after after- ward when he had acquired the right j to talk about such In the mean time he file did several other things First he decided that he would hear the lady sing She was doing Carmen at the The Lieutenant went and saw and other her things Then he began to cast about for some one who knew the diva One feels pleased at relating that 1 t. t tW r Made Marguerite r Sylva Mrs Smith 1 Romance e I f t a an Aviators Aviator's stator s Flier per 0 in try 0 M 0 HI I Y V d iy AA f I II S St t I I Il II I I IJ l J Ji A I Ii a aI 1 r P t i I 1 ir j b A fr a a IJ Io I o J a L LIc t. t Bernard j s. s J Smith y r c SIm the tho Belgian actress United States p singer who was acclaimed by Paris Berlin Derlin Long Lon R Marine Corps don and New Kew York York and and now has lias mado made 7 Flying Wing IVing i herself Mrs bars Alice Smith It w was as as U U Mo Monsieur temper keen keel each blade blade Now 1 js lai laid laid laid- And war war war war wari i ls js is a trade LINK i LINK clank clink clank And Ana Ah C war war is a bountiful jade jadee or Something like that I Think Ink back Isn't that the way its it was s You must remember the chorus men men trien with swords behind them the I others others beating the anvils and away m up front waving her wand and her and her her- her herself j self elf lf a memorable figure in crimson Marguerite eta tights Marguerite ts Sylva in the title roe role of The Princess Chic That must t t have ave been all of fifteen years ago o but who that was bras there has f gotten forgotten i f- f war War was a bountiful trade or jade then to Marguerite At least S sa so she sang One must wonder Mow Low ow she he she fr looks upon it now For war the 8 present present and very real one has lately brought ought brought her a military husband That tinsel tights war in the musical comedy medY of long ago had hid also a romance romance ro 10 mance ance in it but that is beside the question Is war that brings one a bountiful trade The diva answer Speaking however of romance mance When the present war broke out Mme j Sylva yITa was Avas singing in Paris at the thet r Smeeth of the tho theand U and courageous American I oman o 0 man was atI at at- Embassy in I ta tacked hed to to the Paris that ho t aviation corps of or net onet his Lis fate fate o othe the navy and v t his mission tin do France was to i J learn about flyIng fly fly- fly Ing and how it Is flown in time of od o war sear r this person was not far to seek eek His I name was Baron Rudolph de Wardener Wardener Wardener War- War dener which sounds like a a. perilous designation to be carrying about Paris at this stage of the worlds world's game The Baron however is of New York instead of Berlin He kneW Mme Sylva Syilva Moreover he would be foe happy to present the Sight flight Lieutenant and he did Right here too much attention c cannot cannot can can- not be paid to Baron de Wardener Hardener Too often people are inclined to overlook overlook overlook over over- look the vital importance of these intermediary intermediary intermediary in in- characters in life Proper emphasis therefore is here duly laid to n u the Baron The man and the woman he had made acquainted immediately appeared appeared ap ap- apI I to take advantage of the Barons Baron's good offices They were much tog together ther The Lieutenant was seen seen at oat the Sylva apartment more and more He told her about the war and how the German trenches look laok look from the top She taught him how to sing and think of the rashness how to speak French so that a Gallic person of nimble imagination might hate haye some chance of understanding And marriage followed d like a Q ED E ED ED D as the lamented Harry Thurston Peck might have said First there was a civil ceremony secret ecret and unobtrusive x The pair managed ma to bear this weighty secret for a time without collapsing but such strains are not not long supportable Hence a short short while ago in the Church of f Notre Dame at Deschamps the religious s ceremony was celebrated ted with Miss Miss- Grace Temple Olmstead Olmstead Olmstead Olm- Olm stead in In attendance on the bride bIde and Oliver Roosevelt one of the Colonels Colonel's cousins as best man I Thus hus and by such devious and delicate delicate deli deH cate cale means means Marguerite Sylva managed managed managed man man- I I aged to achieve a Mrs Smith From which it will be seen that even war 1 and the the terrible m may y be good for sJ something Is not this his romance It is not possible possible pos pos- r sible to doubt it Mrs Smith herself must think so and she may modestly aspire to some authority on the s subject subject sub sub- b- b since her awn own history will hardly bear flear divorcing from the word To the tho world Marguerite arguerite r. r Sylvas Sylva's st story has been romance since at teen she ran away from her mother I in Belgium and went to London to be beail beall bena beI I all ail actress Beerbohm Tree saw her herin herin herin herI I in some purely physical part and decided decided decided de de- de- de she was worth developing In 1896 he Drought brought her mer to New York and she made her er bow here as the player queen in Hamlet in in which brief part pint she managed to turn herself to the amusement ot the house by her Inability to remember her En English Gish Beerbohm Tree gave gape gave it up but not so Sylva Four years years later she twinkled out out as a star of musical musical comedy That was was the time of of the War war war song The pulchritudinous girl who had failed in Hamlet t made madean an unforgettable Princess Chic And who h has s f forgotten her either elther in The Strollers and Erminie Mr Ir Tree had me do the player i queen in Hamlet because I had pretty pretty pret pret- ty tr legs she said afterward of her first failure If that be so Mr Tree overlooked a good deal or ar else misapplied it Marguerite SYlva wI with h her b black ack eyes her black blackhair and her youthful beauty beauty beau beau- ty was was a a tt tremendous m success in the I I light operas operas or of of fifteen years years ago The general comment of the the time was that she had every requirement oJ of ica comedy flue queen m save save yoke voice I IThe The young young Belgian set ct out to show her critics about that In 1902 following a romance roman e that that began beian with h with the Princess Princess Chic production pro pro- production pro Sylva was married to William j r D. D Mann long manager of the old Herald Square Theatre and and- her ber successes successes suc sue tomes for the next season were under under under un un- der his direction In 1903 Mann announced announced announced an an- his wife's retirement from musical comedy and sent her to Paris ParisI I to s study i y for grand opera After only three J short hort years years of preparation Mar Marguerite Marguerite Mar Mar- IarI I guer te Sylva appeared at the Opera I as Carmen and scored a tremendous tremendous tremendous tre tre- success Later she he returned to N New w York and sang at the old Manhattan under Hammerstein also in 1910 under Dippel at the Metro Metr politan She had achieved the In in- in credible In 1912 while she was Fas singing in Lehar's Gypsy Love In Chicago during a ono season return to light t I opera oper the diva divorced Mann anIt an anit it was immediately rumored she wa wad about to marry the millionaire Marseilles Mati Mat Mar seilles soap and perfume maker Ar AIl mavon who had been showering he her with gifts girts and attentions The singe sing I laughed at the rumor returned t ti Europe sang in Berlin here where s1 was personally complimented by th Emperor and then went back to Paris parl and the Opera the scene JO o o oher I her earlier triumphs J JAnd And now DOW she has gone and becom a wife wIte again The gorgeous an and apt op opu opulent lent Sylva child of romance and lor tune has gone and made herself Mrs 1 Alice Helene Smith wife of a ayoung midi young aeronaut I Ah Ab war war 1 J I |
