CARUSO'S GRIEVANCE

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 March 1916, Page 2

CARUSO'S GRIEVANCE

L'lty tlio sonows ol Caruso! Many peojniJ think ol him as the most enviable oi mortals, ivno get his £'500 a liigut.—or is it £5000?— with the maximum e.i pleasure and'the minimum oi exertion. I tow different is tlie roality—as recently confitliod by the ia.niotis tonof'to a Kymjtafiiietic friend:- — "When i n;a.s unknoivn l sang like a bird, careless, -without a thougnt ol nerves. But now my reputation, is made my position is very different, iloro I am to-day oppressed by a reputation which cannot increase, but which the least vocai mishap may compromise. .My - audiences, well disposed. towards me as they are, have to pay .sticJi high prices to hear me I that thoy imagine i a.m a unique singer who must give them unheard oi That is why 1 am the unhappiest ol nien. i toll you .1 was happier when I was earning ten francs a night. I spent seven francs, kept three, and knew that my reputation was not ruined if I happened to give <i croak. To-diav -i ' And trie great singer finished the senteuco wirn a groan. j . n ijiiiiiijii