Show GREATEST CARMEN FINDS FAME TRICKY MEW 1 W YORK YORK YORK-If If the greatest of l 1 i all were ero to live her life again which again which she Is glad she Is not to be called upon to do she do-she she would seek not fame but happiness She would choose choo e to be lie the in inconspicuous In- In Inconspicuous inconspicuous conspicuous wife of an Inconspicuous man with many many children rather than a glamorous diva The greatest of all an is Emma Calve As she begins to feel fee very ver very ery old she discounts more and more the glory that has been hers in the world of song Glory Is fleeting and fugitive for those of us who ho interpret music and the drama Our creations dis dissolve dis- dis dissolve I solve into the air leaving no trace behind Calve wrote years ago Now she adds the complaint that the triumphs and the acclaims of her career have tricked her sorely They have ha endowed her with Inability to content herself with the things of f life she values dues as the most moot substantial and worth while Calve might today be living In luxury and ease in her Chateau de a medieval castle of rock and turrets crowning one of the loveliest hills hilts In southern France In Instead In- In Instead Instead stead she is making a vaudeville tour of this country singing twice a day dayI da dayI I go to my chateau the castle of my dreams a place of magic and memory I adore If the W the diva be became be- be became became came dramatic and caressed her Mr words I sigh with content Ah Ali I say to myself I am happy at last I am a farm woman come back to the soil I will wm work in my garden I will raise chickens and ducks I will raise rabe vegetables I Ishall Ishall Ishall shall sing all day with delight delight no no crowds cro cis no rushing city no theatres For three months I am happy I am refreshed Then Then Then-no no crowds no rushing city and no theatre theatre- how I miss them I How I long for them themi I I pack I take a train for Parts Paris I sign up for a concert tour I hear applause again For three months I am happy then then but but why wh go on Why repeat Calve e faces age without showing the white flag I accept It with open hands handsher her hands were extended in in eager Invitation Just as I accepted youth I and fame and disappointment I Ican I can reject nothing which Experience offers Age has hes its compensations You see ace now I can watch as aswell aswell aswell I well as perform I see the young girl Her lover has forsaken her and her heart is broken She suffers I thank the good God that th t I myself can canno canno canno no longer suffer so poignantly again My heart Is tough I see sec the young mother with the light of joy in her face Bce as she devourer her child with her eyes I Ieee eee see that smile become a mask muk of terror as danger faces her young youna- I sense her anguish Then again I am old Life cannot pierce me meso meso so ao deeply now If I It does d not DOt give I me as much it compensates by not exacting so to much I grow TOW to love lo the sunset i j I j A If 0 i ks ji 1 t I t Y 5 f K I t li f P I f irA f If Ift t r y 1 t t J. J ff I p f Jet d dI I 4 I I a t J t It t r f a y f 1 t i 4 s e ss k J t i x a Jr i i wK a w a i V 44 a aHk i 1 Hk The Carmen of yesterday the Emma Calve of today and ana her fur medieval Chateau da are pic- pic pictured pic pictured here The castle of my dreams Cairo calls It three For months she la is happy there then tricky fames fame's unrest summons her away Calve may over the lengthening of her years ears but she I does dots not look old In a black taffeta gown with touches of scarlet and ond her fringed Spanish shawl she still Is 15 the Ule colorful Carmen of the opera She preserves prese cs a II youthfulness of appearance she he said sald by loving 10 much uc I r love young oung people I love my old friends I love sunshine and I the sound of the the sea sea- 1 I love every every- everything thing thin beautiful And most mo t of all I love youth That is s why I love lo America why I like Jazz and the follies of youth And why I love your marvelous mar Lindbergh When he h crossed the Atlantic I Iwas Iwas Iwas was In Paris Pj At the Opera attend attend- attendIng attending ing a performance of Manon The news came to us there that the brave bra young American had hd landed at Lc Le LeBourget Bourget The audience rushed from the theatre Singers tore into the street in their stage costumes No Noone Noone Noone one cared for the finish of the singing Why should bould they A young man from a young country had had- Just committed a II marvelously youthful act of bravery and courage Only a youth could have ha done It So I wrote a poem about him biro and composed music for It which I am going to sing all over this country on my tour Here she rose and recited the lines of her poem with as much fervor as if she had been singing sll the Marseillaise He will go on on she on she she grew excited He Ile will live He is Immortal now I |