TETRAZZINI IN LONDON

Evening Star, Issue 18138, 30 November 1922, Page 2

TETRAZZINI IN LONDON

Tetrazzini, who has returned to London for a winter tour of the chief cities of England, prior to sailing for America and Australasia, toldl an interviewer that she had been holiday-making in Vienna, and' had been ever so industrious. “I have been trying to keep myself from increasing weight, but 1 fear T have been little successful,” sho added, with a quaint facial contortion, expressing mingled despair and resignation. She had arranged to sing at a Caruso memorial Service, which was to be held in the one church where, it was understood, women were allowed by ecclesiastical custom to sing on special occasions. At the last moment a message came from the Pope saying that a woman could not be permitted to sing in public in the church, and so an old colleague of Caruso’s sang in her stead, and the great audience was often In tears during the service. “ What is my day’s work when I rest?” —she repeated a question and laughed in her merry, infectious way. “Oh! I get up at 6 o’clock and l do some housework—l dust and sweep so. The poor maids, they do their best; but the dust everywhere —ngh! It is always there and everywhere. So I dust. Then I give my friend and 1 pupil a lesson, and alter that I have two hours’ or more instruction for myself—you know, eh?—my practice, which I must always keep doing. Oh !T am not lazy, no, no! Not at"'all, although I have a splendid holiday.”