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LINA GAVALIERI’S ROMANTIC LIFE STORY
Born in Rome, Italy, Lina Cavalieri for several years of her childhood romped among the barefooted peasant children of that city or played along its historic Vias. Her parents were humble Italians, poor but industrious and her earliest memories are of a flower-filled cottage where her mother used to sing at her work and her father would come home with his hands filled with goodies for "the bambina.’’
It is not true that Lina Cavalieri sold flowers in the Piazza Colonna, for there was no need with a stalwart father to stand off the wolf from the door. Not that she would mind admitting it if it were true, for Cavalieri is, in spite of all the tragic and romantic episodes of her eventful life, simple and kind at heart.
Lina used to sing at her work and play, inheriting the habit from her beautiful mother who possessed a charming although untrained voice. One day she attracted the attention of a maestro — conductor of a small music hall. As her father had died, leaving his little family penniless, Lina was glad to accept the maestro’s offer of a position with a very small remuneration. They paid her about sixty cents a performance, which at the time she thought too much, but refrained from protesting for her mother’s sake.
Later she got another position from a rival music hall at a dollar a night and from then on, step by step, she rose until she became a favorite at the Roman ‘‘Eden’’ near the Ponte Garibaldi. Here she was paid the princely sum of twenty dollars a week.
At last Lina, la bella, drifted to Paris, the Mecca of all music hall singers where she soon became a celebrity getting ten thousand francs (about two thousand dollars) a month at the Folies Bergere. Not yet satisfied, she went on a tour of Europe, during the course of which she met Tetrazini and the tenor Marconi who told her that she ought to study for the opera.
For nine months or so she worked under the tuition of Mariani, making her operatic debut at Naples in ‘‘La Boheme.’’ From there she toured all of Italy and later created the role of Thais at Milan, which some two years ago she sang (in French) at the Grand Opera House in Paris. That was just after her first season at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, and the year after she took London by storm.
Madame Cavalieri has appeared in films occasionally, mostly for Italian companies,
but her debut in Paramount pictures will be shown at the Theatre on ,
when she will be seen in ‘‘THE ETERNAL TEMPTRESS.’’
THIS NEW BIOGRAPHY OF LINA CAVALIERI WITH ONE OF THE MANY BEAUTIFUL STAR CUTS OF HER WILL CREATE A GREAT DEAL OF INTEREST IN YOUR LARGEST LOCAL PAPER.
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