Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 261, Decatur, Adams County, 4 November 1930 — Page 3

fcs NEWS ‘^H7sir. l ''in lire th<> „f a b.'by ;:irl born WLrnaon at four thirty. ■ w.igh.-.i -IX mol ,„>nn<N ami han I Dorlann. Gresloy and C. h. a busint'sH trip to T!>m'X''ay. Kn 1-11 ami daughter ’i'iiui'Hday ■ nl r wh.Tr tb»y spent a 1 ! la ' pai'nits Mr. and Herriman Mr. Merrl-Kr-eing '" '.v sat factor|KS rPr eiit illm'ss. M Mr- Gi'orro Mvers and K„ f peiaiar were dinner ■, |lh r of Mrs. Kila .JohnfKn liurris. I ’liter guests .n were Mr an I Mrs. GarK, n u nd da.i ’i’<-r Barbara . Mr s. \\ d Hu' right and .■ tert.lined lor Mr and Mrs. Paris Marra'' I J< ne Nash . .. and evenrt ,. rt . Mi. and Mrs. p^K |ir . L .n ■ i'in'; nuton and M"< Id-einer spent |Beiid with Mr. and Mrs |^K U e near Vera Cruz. Mr- 11.1“ ■ Sowards and Woii.'da!.' were dinner |Hr,day oi ' ' J ". v Hamilyrs. W M Kleinknight "i’ll M'-. E, I' ". ■ _ i Bm the Safe I Side ■ ■ Kp Cheat Yourself ■bit a rupture, or hernia, how small it is, have cared for at once. dam."'rotis. Get your oh n< Ask him about ice id corr- 11 truss fitting I value of having the appliance to hold the secure I. v with the greatest Rupture sufferers come |H >m many miles around be- ■ irs is a sciucc of relief irity. ■ Smith Drug Co. H 'he Rexall Store Exclusive y tON TRUSS EdTi ER * ■■B «® esa3EH>'JTE»

[Notice” I All Barrett Law assessment on I Streets I Sewer I Sidewalk Improvements ■ are now due and must be paid by [Tuesday, Nov. 4 I- at - a City Treasurers Office [After Tuesday, November 4, a 10% penalty and 6% interest will be added.

Mr. ami Mm. Roy Hall „f P mt Wayne were over Sunday guesta m Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Hall. Mr. and Mrs. D. .1. Miller enter- , tallied for dinner Sunday Mr mid Mrs. Chauncey Miller () f Bluffton. 1 Miss Ruth I.lndeninn of For* . Wayne spent the week-end will, I her parents Mr. and Mrs. Julius 11Lindeman. | Miss Ellen Nash spent Tuesdnv' . night with Arvllla Scott north of > Tocsin. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Sowards and • family of Peru were dinner guests I ’ Sunday of Mrs. Sis Sowards. i Ruth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs I Elmer Bryan is reported, on the’ ■ sick list at this time. Mr. and Mrs. Miles Stoneburner entertained for dinner Sunday, Mr.> I Oda Sowards son Herman and ■ daughter Arminda. Miss Ovis Woodward who was in-i i Jured in an automobile accidenti ■ north of Bluffton Thursday evening i was taken from the WolD County | Hospital to her home near KingsII land Saturday evening. Mrs. S. B. Ramsey was on the I i sick list during the past week but i is again able to be up and around. I ■ Her daughter Mrs. Robert Greene ■ at Kingsland spent a couple of days I 1 in the home helping to care for her. Miss Nellie kuprlght of Hunting- • ton spent Sunday afternoon with Miss Madge Nash. Mrs. Lawrence Breiner and children spent Tuesday with Mr. and ■ Mrs. Ford Worthman tmar Curryville. Mrs. Frank Bright spent Tuesday with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Wm. ■ Gahtnan near Craigville. Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Trenary of j Fort Wayne spent Thursday even- ( ing with Mr. and Mrs. Dora Myers. ■ Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Kleinknight | I were dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wolf. Mrs. Harold Schwartz of Fort ! Wayne spent sunuay witn her par- ’ ents Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Ramsey. Mr. and Mrs. Chas Rupright and ; Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Rupright and' daughter Elizabeth were guests Saturday evening of Mr. and Mrs. ■ Dora Myers. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mills entertained the members of the Bell Economic Club and their families at a Halloween party at their home in Tocsin Thursday evening. The evening was spent in a social way and a good time was had by all. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Barger and sons John and William. Mrs. Moody Wolf, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sowa'.ls, Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Barger and family. Mrs. Amos Byrd Mrs. Claude’Kreigh and daughter Bonnie Lou. Mrs. Wm. Lindeman and daughters Jacquelyn and Aneita May. Mrs. Ella Dailey, Mrs. Merlin re ley and dauhgters Gertrude and Marjorie, Mr. and Mrs Will Plummer. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Sowards, Mr. and Mrs. I Breiner and family. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Shaffer and family, Mrs. Miles Stoneljurner and children Wanda and Roger. Mrs. Ray Hamil ton and family, and Misses Evelyn Wilson, ladys Wasson. Mary Dailey Alma Plummer, and Florence Lindeman. Messrs James Dailey. Robert Sowards and Joe Miller and Mr. and Mrs. Howa d Mills and daughters Lucile and Evelyn.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, NOVEMBER I, 1930.

Behind the Scenes With the Grand Opera Stars Mme. Alda, the Popular Prima Donna, Reveals Some Curious Superstitions of Famous Singers. Bn ‘ MF 1 ' ; /A /■ Hrx •I ' J < /'■ ji /*• ” J Mtteafe 1 Ne-lme-wf VL NfLbA Enrico Caruso |L • fl r ßi' c i fl Jk ' W* q <-4-n -i-T Lillian Nordica Mme France? Alda tn Operatic Pole-

New York. Nov., 4 —Shiny black carriages roll majestically down flashing Broadway behind highstepping horses in monogrammed harness. . . . Top-hatted coachman draw up with a flourish at the door portals between Thirty-ninth and Fortieth streets. . . . Haughty i footmen spring down from boxes. Swing open richly crested carriage doors for the procession of gilded ladies and gentlemen. It is November. 1905. The great Metropolian Opera season is on! A quarter of a century later. . . October, 1930. The hoary temple of opera has again drawn its elegant streams of humanity for the opening of the new season. The flashing jewels and rich furs are still there. . . But the shiny black carriages have made way for gleaming limousines. New faces predominate in the parade ’or the “400." . . . Anil new voices will -ing the ipimortal strains of Verdi and Wagner while the huge hrones s t spellbound. *** U 1 The two greatest voices of that opening performance of twentyfive years ago have been stilled forever . . . Lillian Nordica and Enrico Caruso. The opera was D onchielli's immortal “La Giocon-• do." . . . And the great soprano and tenor gave such renditions of the roles of Giocondo and Enzo, respectively, that there must be echoes of that deafening ovation still lingering in the dim comers of the old auditorium. So frenzied became one worshipful gallery god. says history, that it required a house fireman to quiet b''i! It has required the passing of ' many years to reveal the full I glamour of those early days of the new century at the Metropolitan . . . those days when Enrico Caruso, Antonio Scotti (celled the dean of all singers at the "Met") and Mtrte. Frances Alda, famed prima donna., were fined SIOO each for the unprogrammed, pranks which they interpolated ■ into a performance of "La 80-! heme.” But that S3OO was well spent. l write t Mme. Alda in her memoirs, i The trouble had started when one o' the characters had lifted his hut from a table preparatory to making his exit, only to find that it had been filled with water. A little later Messrs. Caruso and Scotti startled little Mimi (Mme. Alda) by putting in their appearance wearing monocles for the first time. . . I The climax came when Mimi, enacing the famous “death" scene, (found to her horror that the right front and the left rear castors of the Latin Quarter cot on which she lay had been removed . . . And so poor little Mimi had to sing her heart-twisting swan song to the gay accompaniment of a teetering bed. * * * Less amusing but equally startling are the “hoodoo” sings which I the famous songbird describes in her book, “Coming of Age at the i Metropolitan,” covering a span of I twenty-one years beneath that 1 hallowed proscenium. The "hod- < doo”, song, according to Mme. 1 1 Alda‘( is that song in almost every. great opera singer’s repertoire I which he or she cannot sing, no; (matter how important it may be in the rendition of a given role. It was an aria in “Manon

Lescaut” which struck terror to the heart of the great Caruso . . . but only when he was called upon to sing it in public. Mme. Alda’s own “hoodoo” song was "The Last Rose of Summer.” All had been well, she confides, until a property man informed her that she seemed to be one of the few who could successfully negotiate the F sharps. . . . Since that day, says the great soprano, she has faltered at the F sharps whenever she sang this beautiful song. Madame Alda, it will be remembered, became the wife of Signor Giulio Gatti-Casazza. czar of the Metropolitan Opera, in 1910. They were amicably divorced in 1928. But before her marriage, the celebrated diva had not actually been Miss Frances Alda, as many suppose. The name “Frances Alda" had been taken by young Miss Frances Davies, of New Zealand, Australia, at the suggestion of the great voice teacher, Mme. Marches!. “New [ careers, new names,” was the | operatic rule of the day. And “Alda" recalled the name of that other great songbird, Nellie Melba, whom young Frances so resembled. And so it has been "Frances Alda” ever since. Even tne great Melba herself has not hesitated to change her career. Had not the imperious name as an aid to her artistic Marches! insisted that “Nellie Mitchell” was no name for an opera star?. . . And so it had become “Nellie Melba,” the new surname suggested by the city of Melbourne, Australia, the birthplace of Nellie Mitchell. A quarter of a century later finds most of the favorites of the diamond horseshoe singing under their own names. It is another era. The old opera house and a few familiar faces remain. But they will pass. Only the deathless harmonies of the immortals march on through the ages. (International Newsreel) o | BARGAINS: — Bargains In Livius Room, Dining Room suits, ma! tpesses and rugs. Stuckey and Co, Monroe. Our phone number is 44 ><t« I I OwrTrfe Vootiigh/s —beauty is their attraction. To be successful, the professional women must “look her best” at all times. That is why Gouraud’s Oriental I Cream is the "little French beauty secret” of many famous stars. Your complexion too, can have that soft, seductive, delightful professional touch of beauty thru Gouraud’s Oriental Cream. It does not rub off, streak or spot, but retains its fascinating attractiveness thruout the day. GOURAUD’S WWfta, Tlaati. Baikal and OrlnnUl Tan Khadan Fend 100 /or Trial Site Si ' Ford T. Hopkins & Son, Now York City

........ .. ... ..... —J ✓' v A ■M I I faiiiSSs • grcii Mi liibß ™ I B” IBi f r-WBliY Willy Farmers Farmers of Adams County are Invited to attend the ELECTRICAL Farm and Home Equipment Institute Friday November 7 Wm. Christianer Farm 6Mil s North of Decatur Near Gerke School PRACTICAL Demonstrations of the uses of electric current will be given at the institute and we cordially invite the Adams County farmers to be present. Hot lunch will be served by the Ladies’ Aid Society of the Fuelling Lutheran church. PROGRAM 10:00 A.M. to 12:0(1 M. The following equipment will be in operation: Electric Hammer Mill Purdue Electric Truck Electric Alarm for Poultry House Electric Stove Electric Feed Mixer Electric Cream Separator Electric Milking Machine Electric Water Systems Electric Dairy Water Heater Electric Refrigerator E'ectric Poultry Water Heater Electric Washer Electric Brooder Electric Cleaner Electric Pig Brooder Electric Ironer Utility Motor Electric Lawn Mower 12:00 M.—Noon lunch served by Community Ladies. 1:00 P.M.—General session for men and women on results of experimental work conducted by Purdue Agricultural Experiment Station on Poultry Equipment including brooders, water heaters, burglar alarms, and lighting to increas egg production. Discussion led by Mr. T. E. Hienton of the Department of Agricult iral Engineering of Purdue University. 1:45 P.M.—Farm Power sessions for men led by Mr. Hienton 1. Water Systems 2. Feed Grinding 3. Dairy water heaters and milki ig machines. 1:45 P.M.—Sessions for women led by a represe itative of the Department of Home Economics of Purdue University. 1. Cooking 3. Laundering 2. Refrigeration 4- Household Equipment. The Following are Cooperating in this Educational Demonstration: City of Decatur Light & Power Dept. Indiana Service Corperation - Purdue University Extension Department Adams County Agricultural Agent

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