How the Dying Composer s Sentimental Wlnm Was Invoked by Lucy Arbell, the English Prima Donna, to Forbid Mary Garden to Sing the Title &ole in "Cleopatra" ..." /** «. license the piodootion of th« opera without Lupf AvMil In the title role, then no grievance arose for theae Us- - mediate beifa at the composer. When the iwtft came to consider UM TtMMIUWIf ui hum Lttor Alton herself It MHHl that since MM* Arbeil was not invited to riBtf in the title role she was not being personally crowded out Of a possible opportunity of substituting berseK for Mary Garden. What then remained as to L«ey Arbeit's .claim for damages? There appeared to be nothing tfhlch conld not be determined by a Jury which could listen to all the facts of the case and .MS what ever mon¬ Lucy Arfeetl, Who th« Dying Composer, Mu- etary damages Miss Ar¬ tenet, Deel*red Should Be the Only Woman beil was entitled to. And Who Should the Title Role in Hi* Mag¬ tills verdict of damages, If nificent Opera of Ancient Egypt. there should be one, would 0»i have to be paid by Mas- ^J|f | HEN the greet French composer senet's estate. Massenet dM he tM up Ma If, therefore, tb« administrator of Mas¬ W famous opera "Cleopatra" with * senet'# estate Wonld fat »p a sufficient Strange stipulation in bis will.-that the bond to satisfy any verdiot of damages magnificent title role of the opera should which Lacy Arbell might eventually get tft. sang only hy the composer's dear from a French eonrt txcaaW Mary Garden friend. Hiss Lacy Arbell. And this seat!- sang the role of Cleopatra, then the opera meatal whim of the dying composer has might be sung. And so It was that Mary haunted this opera ever since.as if Mas¬ Garden wa* enabled at last to sing Cleo¬ senet's ghost reached oat from bis grave patra at the opening of the splendid new ta Jealously safeguard the taterests of the Parian playhouse, the Theatre Ijyriqn*. Toaun he loved so deafly. on 0Otdber 19, In spite of the spectral ASd thus it happened that Mary Garden band of the dead composer. . seats face to face with this spectral for- i The story behind this tale of a haunted "ThU >M»lhnMil>l wUn of the fettdifig hand ef the great composer when opera ft one of the laat love of a gealis dying cuipaiti bo* tbf> attelapted to slag Cleopatra a few of many lores. Jules Frederick Rmile hiint«l kk apmrm rr®r m&cc; u if MauenetS fkoat weeks ago hi Paris. The French etmrfe Massenet bad a pupil and friend in Lucy i otit from hit fra** to jeoiomly tafefuard the were appealed to for en injunction to for Arbell. She was a handsome IngUsti toiw-il of the woman he loved »o dearly." bid her to ting the role of the enchantress woman who had lived so long in Pari* ;-Jot because ef Kile, llassenet had so di¬ that she wae ift spirit and in manner a that fee eted ia hie will. might Arm a mutidti capable Parislenne. Her name was bdttffette Wal¬ «f directing Iter musical studies. Lisa Hfe-' ^Already the same plea had beea made lace. She was the of sister Captain Rich¬ mediately tent her to me. to jnofbflr court aad aa injunction had ard of British Wallace, the army. "Tea hare guessed. ay deer ehiMrea. . been Issued in Mcmte Carlo some years ago Maasenet wae ualike meat composers. that this exquisite young gtrt was she who, forbidding Mine. Marie Kousnetoff, the He did not the voiee emphasise of the t»o years later, wss to beosme prima donna, to appear as Cleo¬ who created his my loving singer roles. He consid¬ wife, the attentive and at thaw miMI patra. Mies Arbell broaght the legal pro¬ ered first and last slid most of the time at that time and seeared her In¬ her (ompanion of my days, the altueee at my ceedings personality. Did she look the part? frailties and junction. Was she the who my strength, 01 my sadness type sat jays." 5jerything was ready at the Monte might hare caused the Carlo Opera House. The company had conflict of wflla, the clash Massenet^ho wrote "Mabod" sad **OMI assembled and the costumes had of love and hate, the trag¬ drttton," "Ariaae" and **Les Joagieor fle Paris," was accounted aa excellent boat b??^ prepared with great magnificence. edy of the opera in real neat man. But of this ha do endure The charming and very pretty Russian life? If she was gloriously cave singer was an exquisite figure in the role beautiful and might he the when he arranged for the prodatnion of oCJ&e Siren' of the Nile. The programmes living, palpitating heroine .his last work. He left s scribbled line: *1 desire that had been printed and the tickets had bees of a songless drama she my friead aad pupil, Lwcj kr taught her to soli would serve. Often her sing the ball, be permitted to create the role of title " TJpder these circumstances the court the roles. What though Oleepstre If she wishes personality insured a French which issued the injunction decided that writing of th# opera. fid opera singer, She did wish. With all the Uiteaslty of the" performance might go on provided the wrote the touring the Summer re¬ her nature she wished to be the Brat Cle*- opera Cleopatra sorts managers of the opera furnish a generous with an eye of Intense ad¬ with her in Terese pstre. But the hastily written request was toad to satisfy any damages which their miration upon L/ncy Arbefl. and Werther, said: "It not litigation proof. "1 am fortnnate In is production of the opera might do to Lucy hav¬ dreadful. One of the Raoul Gansburg. manager of the Mont* ing the perfect type for most beautiful ArbdTl and her claims under the will of the Cleopatra. She looks blondes Carlo Opera Houae. Ignoring the ihjua*. dead composer. ' Cleopatra, lives Cleopatra, in the world! But her Garden in ttoh secured by her. produced "Cleopatm" is voice!" Mary the Costume of Cleopatra, Which Lucy The opera was produced. Lucy Arbell Cleopatra reincarnate," Arbrli Tried to in with Mark- Kt.usnesuff In the title Brought salt against the executors of the he said, his dark eyes Massenet was the ex- Stop Her from Singing Park. rofk " Monsieur Guns^urg retained Maltr* La Maaseaet estate because they had author¬ glowing, his nervous, ta¬ ceptional artist. Eugene pering Angers striking "That is the way of Massenet." no borl, the eloquent defender of Dteyfua. ized the of the Walter, actuated by love intrusive other lovers. Miss Arbell re¬ production opera contrary great crashing chords on When Jules Emlle Frederik Massenet who saved the alleged traitor trrm Devil's, to tjie terms of the will and had received the piano. of his art, refused to al¬ sided and studied in Paris. Mies Arbeit low his wife, Charlotte vrrete an opera for a woman Paris did not was devoted to her art and her ehen inland, to defend him. Labor! aitfued thai thfc royalties from the productions. It was "But, chere maitre," pro¬ tested a Walker, to appear in say: "Is this a new voicef" It was two the general and artistic reputation of aa aa ta tares suit and Arbell won famous French said, "Is niaitre. Her reward operas. ting Lacy singer who had toured the one of his plays. Nor this a new fancy of chere Maitre's!" great a composer as Jules Massenet Ma; g verdict of $<.006, which has been tears nor entreaties Usu¬ for her he wrote "non Oulchotta" and ap¬ Summer resorts of Prance ally It was. would be preserved by ignoring a tyeqaew, pealed by the administrators of the estate. and Switzerland with Miss swayed him. "Not this tor her "Cleopatre." An American who time, dear. You He wrote "Thais," a second for which obviously was the outcome of an. When, the other day. Mary Garden was Arbeit, "I trust I do not may opera, visited the French gertus a year before offend when I remind act in one of my plays, the magnificent Sibyl Sanderson, but a! his heard frosi him: emotional sentiment *>r ha intimate billed in the title role of this magnificent yon but not In thia," he said. death "Miss Luc> in Paris Lacy Aibeil began once you of the voice. She sings lowed Lina Cavalieri to create the role. Arbell is especially fitted to create the friend. The higher coafrt granted Mis* Ar like a And his will prevailed. itufrt to put In motion the same legal ma pheasant." 80 Willard Mack, tha Because In the interval betweea "Esclar- rolea." bell six thousand da#ars damagea. eWnery which she had Invoked In the Massenet struck more musicless monde" and "Thais" the The eottrts at Monte Carlo to restrain the beau¬ chords. "Her voice will Mme. Marie Kousnezoff, Massenet, beauteous Califor He wrote In his memoirs, "Sibyl Sander Chicago Oyer* Company, desiring the who wrote plays for all nlenne had fallen in love to produce "ClegPatre,- arranged "tth the tiful Russtan prima donna. improve. I am teaching Russian Prima Donna, of his three hopelessly with son.it is not without painful emotion that But the French courts look a rather dlf her," he less nerv¬ successive the Cuban publishers of the opera. ft Com replied Against Whom Miss Ar- wives, would not per¬ Antonio Terry, multimillionaire. I recall this artiste clutched by pitiless Hugel ferent view, a rather broader view than ously, with more dignity. bell Learning which, Massenet wrote panv, of Parts, for the rights to produce It the courts of Monte Carlo. "What matters Is that she Secured a Court mit his recent third, another death in her full beauty and the expanding Considering it> Last season aH the facts In the situation, the French is Cleopatra. Her voice is Injunction. Pauline Frederick, to opera for someone else."La Navaraise," glory of her talent She was one of th< America. Mary Garden an play the title role in a for Emma Calve. The sang it in Chicago and New York without ooafts declined to grant Injunction be¬ secondary." j drama of his. sumptuous singer most magnificently gifted persons 1 have cause it would shut out from the a He died in his seventieth let or hindrance the public year. Dying Anotner, not mav created La Navaraise, and for a long ever known." from actively lttlgaat meritorious presentation of a musi¬ he remembered and Miss this," he said. Which great Cleopatra Arbell have contributed time Massenet cherished for her ex Miss ArbelL cal work of art one the He wrote a line which he intended to their recent divorce. an No critic ever wrote such praise of tht interpreted by of to be Both these loved ceedlng admiration. intend* foremost musical artistes of the day. a codicil to his wllL He said, "It is my playwrights their beautiful woman with the uneven voice, Csmpaniui again to repeat it m WMie It was wish wives. But they loved their plays more. It is the gossip of Paris that La Belle and true, the court argued, that that my Mend and pupil, Mile. Lucy Yet but the critic* were not Masaenets. both cities says Miss Arbell must pre a literal interpretation of the d*ad com¬ Arbell, shall create the role of Massenet, foremost composer ol Sanderson, returning from America, her Cleopatra that had received His "Memoirs" were bums sent to the publishers any legal claims she poser's wishes would undoubtedly forbid and that she alone shall sing It If Bhe so France, cared not who sang his operas, country coldly her, went gallant this presentation of desire." provided she was beautiful and he was to the composer's studio and begged him documents. In them occurs a tribute to may have upon the opera. Massenet's Cleopatra But the beautiful onless Lucy Arbell sang the But in spite of this, upon the broad rea¬ enamored of her. to write another opera for her. Mme. Massenet, who was one of the heirs Englishwoman, it leading part, he seems, yet there were other and broader consider- soning of the French courts, as already He wrote "Esclarmonde" for Sibyl San¬ "But no!" said, with a bow. "You who was forced into litigation by the per protests only against other artist* a'kin* than the sentimental whim of the outlined above, Garden thrilled derson. . are unhappily in love. One cannot sing slstent claims of Mlas Lucy Arbell. singing tbs part in Paris. When she Mary fash¬ the old. composer. ion* ble Paris at the LyTique with a splen¬ "But her role® It thin and worn. Except when she 1b unhappily In love. It Is happy "While In Italy and mounting the 300 learned that managers of the new And what actual damage would be done did presentation of Cleopatra. Rut the for her high O there is nothing notable la love that releases the Imprisoned voice steps which lead to the Ara Coell, I met Theatre Lvrique, is Paris, were to produce by not Interfering with Mary Garden's ap¬ performance was haunted by a woman's her voice," counseled her friends. from the dungeons of the heart." two women who struck me as beinf ele¬ it she asked for another lajuaction. Man pearance in the title rolef Since Mas- tears and the tolled will of the dead com¬ "I care not. fjhe will fill the eye glor¬ It was, too, the gossip of Paris that, gant foreigners. My glanoe waa p «. Garden esng Cleopatre at the new tbeatf* xeoet himself bad passed to the world be- poser. iously. She is the only American singer crushed by her disappointment, the lovely larly charmed by the face of the younger. then sailed for America. And Mlas Arbell yoq4. no actual physical or mental suffer¬ For Massenet was the man who did not I have ever known who has Sanderson swallowed a dose of a poisoi "A few days after this meeting I w&s at threatens another suit for damages would come to temperament. ing him. Sinee the pro¬ care. He was the artist extraordinary, tho You will see that she will sing It," he an- ous drug. A doctor and a stomach pump Liszt's house and recognised among the Musicians call "Cleopatre" the hatmted ducers of the opera would pay the cus¬ man who placed his love before his swered. the dramatic interview. Massenet guests of the illustrious muter the two opera. Certainly it is haunted by M«sa.< to the work. ended tomary royalties estate of Massenet, Lucy Arbell, a handsome English She did, and Parts secepted her. It never wrote another opera for her. women I had seen at the Ara Coeli. 1 ArbeU's memories and foBed ambitions theti no financial loss or injury would woman, shed the last glow of romance case of the beautiful learned almost that the And memories of the composer who come to Massenet's heirs. over talked of her beauty and her temperament But in the English¬ immediately by And since Mas- his declining years. He wrote his last and said little of said woman, a daughter, so Paris says, of Sir younger had come to Rome with her family believed "All for love and the work well sgMt'i Immediate were her voice. It with family willing to operas tor her. ftlttlng at the piano he had a shrug of its accustomed shoulders: Richard Wallace, of England, there were and that she ha/i been referred to Lisst lost." v.» A