GALLI-CURCI.

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 122, 27 May 1925, Page 10

GALLI-CURCI.

''The penalty of success as a singer," said ( Madame Amelita Galli-Curci recently,, is to live the life of a saint. Given the voice- and intelligence, and the desire to attain great heights in the world o£ song, only your sins can betray you and baulk your ambition. 1 wanted to be a great singer. I found that to be this I must forswear all those little indulgences and weaknesses that make life so pleas^ ant and sinners so often adorable. I had to give np my nights of dancing for days of real Spartan diet. Although 1 am now rather advanced in the arts ot discipline and denial, how I would like to sink into a motor-car'; but I must walk, because it keeps me fit and trim. How I dote on the good things of the table; but they are not consistent with good singing. Corsets and tight-lacings, as every woman knows, arc an eminently easier way to a goodlooking figure than, regular and strenuous exercise .and plain living. What virtue there is in my rigorous life and abstinence is_ inspired by ambition. My only consolation for my inability to pose to myself as a saint is that my gifts, however acquired, give pleasure to others." Preferential bookings for the two concerts to -be given on 2nd and 4th July opened at 10 o'clock this morning at The Bristol.