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Searching for pictures to make the story intelligible to the majority of its purchasers, the Graphic rooted out no satisfactory portrait of the Carmen who never played with love. So, not in the least disconcerted, its editors found a picture of another opera star, famed Maria Jeritza, showing her face in an expression of unbridled invitation. The editors published this photograph with the story about Margerita Sylva; there was no caption printed under it; it was not stated that it represented Margerita Sylva. The editors were confident that few Graphic readers would recognize Jeritza, even though similar huge pictures...
Blonde and beautiful Maria Jeritza, Austrian soprano, golden star of the Metropolitan in the winter and the Vienna State Opera Company in the summer, last week grew angry. She had recently gone to Paris with the Vienna company and had sung there in several performances. Medals and decorations were awarded to several members of the troupe, among them the great Jeritza. Jeritza's fury, which newsgatherers for no valid reason regarded as unjustified, resulted from the fact that she had been given, not the medal of the Legion of Honor, but the insignificant one of "Officer of Public Instruction...
...Jeritza said she had gone to Paris against her will, at the pleading of: 1) the director of the Vienna Opera Company; 2) her mother-in-law, Baroness von Popper of Paris; 3) the Austrian Government. But when she reached Paris no Austrian delegation met her train; no critics were invited to her performances; her operatic stature was in no way suitably emphasized. Jeritza refused the little medal she had been offered. She said...
...Copenhagen, Maria Jeritza (Baroness von Popper), famed "golden" soprano of the Metropolitan, sang in Tosca twice, Carmen once, Tannhauser once. Contrary to their polite custom of appearing at only one performance in an operatic series, the King and Queen of Denmark, dressed in their bravest regalia, sat in their box every time Jeritza sang. The King gave the singer a decoration encased in a gold medallion and asked her to attend an intimate family party at the palace after her first performance. This Mme. von Popper did with dignity and delight...
...Paris, Maria Jeritza arrived after leaving Copenhagen, looking so healthy and beautiful with her five-feet-eleven, her 160 pounds of bone and muscle, that excited friends gathered to inquire how she preserved her excellent physical condition. With a gay laugh, the large diva took the ladies of her acquaintance into her hotel bedroom and proceeded to show them. She rolled about on the floor, flinging her long legs in the air. She turned many somersaults, laughing heartily. "There," she said at last, panting and flushed, "that is what I do. That keeps me thin and agile...