Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 261, Decatur, Adams County, 4 November 1930 — Page 9

jiSIN NEWS ■ .link Strokin nro th<' ■ enH oi a b..t» girl bon. W aftt .rnoon ... four thirty ■, Mi-s I six and ■l' pound- and ’’ Kvlli* Ihulon.'. Gr<--b'y and < . 1-busin-sM trip to K,),,,. TlturmWM Kl , , ..:id <luught<-r |H' . jn .. ’.lmrsday tlir where they spent a |H' ftl ,h In . parents Mr. and Mi Trillion. Mr. Morrino satiHfaetorremit illness. |K Mi' ip'iit-.i Myers and ■K iiiTii'iir were dinner |K nl |av ot Mrs. Ella Johnll’nris IHher guests >ll «,.|e Mr an I Mrs. Gar- ■■/, .hi o’''!' Barbara Mrs. W. .1. Bill-right an-1 t h . nt.-riained tor Mr. and Mrs. Baids ini | _M;i it are! dene N'asll \ ■ and evenMr. and Mrr. ;ir - Iliiniineton and Fuller. Mr- >-■ Breiner spent end with Mr. and Mrs near Vera Cruz. M: - ■ Sowards and K W.i'.i-' were dinner Mund.n Boy Hamil Mrs. W M. Kleinknight evening with Mr. BL (• 1-:. I'. "- r. ■ on the Safe J Side ■t Cheat Yourself have a rupture, or hernia, how small it is, have cared for at once. ■is dangerous. (ret your v. Ask him about of correct truss fitting Me value of having the ■ appliance to hold the ■ lecurcly with the greatest ■L Rupture sufferers come HBom many miles around beBurs is a service of relief ■arity. ■ Smith Drug Co. ■The Rexall Store ■Authorized Exclusive ~ ' TRUSS fitter ’

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

Mr. and Mrs. Roy llull of Po) . t Wayne were over Sunday guests m Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Hall Mr. and Mrs. I). j, Miller Pn(o| .. „ tallied for dinner Sunday Mr and Mrs. Chauncey Miller of Bluffton. I j Miss Ruth Lindeman of For'i . Wayne spent the week-end with j :l i her parents Mr. and Mrs. Julius' II Lindeman. | Miss Ellen Nash spent Tuesday' I. night with Arvilla Scott north of > Tocsin. Mr. and Mrs. .Juke Sowards and r family of Peru were dinner guests *' 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. Milos Stoneburner entertained for dinner Sunday, Mr., 1 Oda Sowards son Herman and r daughter Armlnda. Miss Ovis Woodward who was ini jured in an automobile accident • north of Bluffton Thursday evening i was taken from the Wells County Hospital to her home near KingsI land Saturday evening, r Mrs. S. B. Ramsey was on the • sick list during the past week but 1 is again able to be up and around. - Her daughter Mrs. Robert Greene • of Kingsland spent a couple of days 1 in the home helping to care for her. Mi s Nellie Ruprlght of Huntingt ton spent Sunday afternoon with - Miss Madge Nash. I Mrs. Lawrence Breiner and childl I ren spent Tuesday with Mr. and r Mrs. Ford Worthman near Curry- ■ ville. . Mrs. Frank Bright spent Tuesday t with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Wm. ■ Gahmaa near Craigville. Mr. ami Mrs. B. P. Trenary of Fort Wayne spent Thursday eveul Ing with Mr. and Mrs. Dora Myers. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Kleinknight were dinner guests Sunday of M.'. and Mrs. Ray Wolf. Mrs. Harold Schwartz of Fort ! Wayne spent snnaay witn her parents Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Ramsey. Mr. and Mrs. Chas Ruprlght and Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Rupright and daughter Elizabeth were guests Saturday evening of Mr. and Mrs. Dora Myers. Mr. ami 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 nresent were Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Ba-ger and sons John and William. Mrs. Moody Wolf, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sowards, Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Barger and family. Mrs. Amos Byrd j Mrs. Claude Kreigh and daughter I Bonnie I ou. Mrs. Wm. Lindeman j and daughters Jacquelyn and An- : oita 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. Lawrence Breiner and family, Mr. and Mrs. i Perry Shaffer and family, Mrs. Miles’ Stoneburner and children ' Wanda and Roger, Mrs. Ray Hamilton 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. ;vnd Mrs. Howard Mills and daughI ters Lucile and Evelyn.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1930.

Behind the Scenes With the Grand Opera Stars . . . ... Mme. Alda, the Popular Prima Donna, Reveals Some Curious Superstitions of’Famous Singers. (fclfWßSbfi ■ IL Idas < ■jar 1 w > 4 £-> ™Lir 1 m NfllitMew* a w 'JKr- s Sr-*’ Awk , Nf?,co ( - ARU?O W iitpwlibky i wSllfl UmL i i • c w i g Iwbl Lillian Nordica Mme Frances’ Alda in Operatic Pole-

New York, Nov., 4—Shiny black, carriages roll majestically down flashing Broadway behind highstepping horses in monogrammed harness. . . . Top-hatted coachmen draw up with a flourish at the door portals between Thirty-ninth and Fortieth streets. . . . Haughty footmen spring down from boxes, i Swing open richly crested carriage doors for the procession of gilded ladies and gentlemen. It is No-j vember. 1905. The great Metropol tan 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 limousiries. New faces predominate in the parade for the “400.” . . . And new voices will sing the immortal strains of, Verdi and Wagner while the huge ; hron rs s t spellbound. The two greatest voices of that opening performance of twentyfive years ago have been stilled forever . . . TJilMan Nordica and Enrico Caruso. The opera was fonchielli’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 corners of the old auditorium. So frenzied became one worshipful gallery god, says history, that it required ci house fireman to quiet him! It has required the passing of many years to reveal the full glamour of those early days of , the new century at the MetropoliJ tan . . . those days when Enrico Caruso. Antonio Scotti (celled the dean of all singers at the "Met") and Mme. 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, I write t Mme. Alda in her memoirs. I The trouble had started when one of the characters had lifted his, hat from a table preparatory to l 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) try 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 srwan 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 Metropolitan," covering a span of twenty-one years beneath that hallowed proscenium. The “hoo- J ! doo" song, according to Mme.. ■Alda, is that song in'almost every | f great opera singer’s repertoire | which he or she cannot sing, no; matter how important it may be in the rendition of a given role. 5 it was an aria in “Manon

, Lescaut" which struck terror to the heart of the great Caruso ... but only when he wae 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 Mise 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 the 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 d amond 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) I BARGAINS: — Bargains In Living Room, Dining Room suits, mat tresses and rugs. Stuckey and Co,, Monroe Our phone number is 44 < Z*’ f QverVhe Fotrf/g/rfr —beauty is their attraction. To be successful, the professional women must “look her best” at all times. That is why Gouraud’s Oriental Cream is the “little French beauty secret” of many famous stars. Your complexion too, can have ■ that soft, seductive, delightful pro- i fessional 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 I OPIENTAI v CREAM" WMte, n«h. Bajfeal and OrtanUl Tan Bbadaa Send 10c for Trial Sine n Ford T. Hopkina A Son. New York City

■■ ,l * l M 111 —■■ iiiani i—— if • • • Iji al 'a ■; Im, —'.t* . FT t ■ Welcome Farmers Farmers of Adams County are Invited to attend the ELECTRICAL Farm and Home Equipment Institute Friday November 7 Wm. Christianer FarmGMil 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 12:00 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 VV atcr 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. 1:15 P.M.—Sessions for women led by a representative 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 Lights Power Dept. Indiana Senice Corperation - Purdue University Extension Department Adairs County Agricultural Agent

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