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Show OPENED EYES OF OPERA FANS MARIE JERITZA. (BY ALICE ROHE ) NEW YORK Jeritza ihc marvelous marvel-ous ! It's the name of the biggest sensation sensa-tion the Metropolitan Opera house has known. Marie Jerltza is the singer who has llterall made the Metropolitan audience audi-ence open Its eyes. No longer can the tired business man get out of going to the opera by saying he doesn't mind the music If only he didn't have to look at the singers. Jerltza Is beautiful, she is young, she is exquisitely built, she is intelli gent, she can sing, she can act, she has great personality and she is mar-r(ed mar-r(ed 'o a baron and she is ery much In loc with her husband This Viennese has positively shattered shat-tered traditions Her elasticity of voice Is equaled to her elasticity of body. She can sing in any position. She doesn't have to stand with a straight front expression, eye fastened on the director as 6he takes a high note. She crouches, sits down, stoops over, lies down it's all the same. She is a groat actress as well as a phenomenal phe-nomenal singer. Jerltza sings Italian and the heav lest German opera with equal ease. Her Siggiiende Is as inspiring as her Tosca. And when you meet her face to face, you find this wonderful young creature as bashful about beins interviewed as a school girl. Baron Popper is the husband of' Jeritza and he is the son of blanche Marches!, the celebrated Parisian voice teacher. "It is nice to have America like me," said Jeritza, in broken English BUl wnat more can i say : i am not temperamenlal I'm Just a simple woman who has r. life work to per form 1 love my art and I love my husband. I think the thing I want to be most of all is just a normal woman "I want to do as well as I can the things nature nas made It porsible for me to do. I work very hard and I want to keep my mind always open so that I can understand all the people in the world. "To be a great opera singer one i must be a great actress and to be a ! great actress one must understand human beiugs. Acting and sinking In grand opera are one ihey cannot be ; di&sassoclaled it grand opera Is properly prop-erly interpreted." no |