Tt has always seemed to the writer that character might accurately told at first meeting by a handshake. One might make mis takes of course, but one would more often right than wrong. Certainly Mme, Amelita Galli-Curei hand*hake is not misleading,—It gives one instantly the impression of spontaneity, freshness and inter est. and from' what one can judge in sume short meeting and various reports, this typifies her.
She is interested in everything leven in being interviewed, although she admits that she has been interviewed so many Umes that she cannot sive the mumber—and her me terest makes the great singer one of those charming people with whom one can drift happily ints conversation on various subjects thout quite knowing how one gets The El Mahan Portrait To look at, Mme, Galli-Curci ix small and neat, and one notices suddenly that." her eyes are. not rove as one half expected but 9 deep, intelligent green-grey.. On? can' quite imagine that, if she ite still, and subdued' the anima-which "entivens hor features, she could resemble, as had been Said she does, a rare old Italian portrait But, on the other hand, me her expressing just sitting perfectly stil, perhaps even bored, for, whether the is speaking or listening, her face expresses continually and varyingly her interest in the subject whatever it may be. In her every-life, too, she allows herself no boredom. When she is Hor charseteristic, On Saturday night, February 2, she gave her final con: cert at the Metropolitan Ope-a House in New York, and the next day she set out on her Far Eastera When she is not travelling, Yoves, her spare time 3 filled with such' energetic pastimes as golf, about which she is extrem:-
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