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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...
Last week the case came up in court. Counsel for the Cohens argued that the plaintiff is really a baroness, wife of Leopold Frederick Salvatore Baron Popper de Podhragy, that thus she is no longer Jeritza, has no more right to the name than have the Cohens. But Federal Judge Thatcher thought differently, decided in favor of "La Jeritza", ordered the Cohens to cease using her name...
Last week Madame Jeritza filed suit against the Cohens. Her full name, she explained, is "Maria Popper de Podhragy Jeritza, widely known throughout the civilized world." Could the name "La Jeritza" mean anyone else? Did not every Frenchman, Italian, Spaniard, use the definite article "La" to refer to her, the supreme, the only Jeritza, pre-eminent soprano of four continents? And this name the 'Messrs. Cohen had usurped. They had put it, over the trade name of "Cohen Bros.," on two kinds of box. One kind contained some dismal cheroots affectionately known as "Little Cigarros." The other contained larger cheroots...
...makeshift drop shut off the people seated on the stage, from the strip of stage whereon the singer was to stand. At the appointed hour, the great curtain lifted, slowly, solemnly, disclosed Jeritza, there, ready, her weight on one foot in true Bernhardtian manner. Her husband, big Baron von Popper, had carried her on, propped her against the piano, left her there to give pleasure to a great audience that applauded her singing, her pluck...