Chaliapin Will Open A “Leetle Monastaire”
“Are you going to hear Aim.ee McPhersonT” was the question put by an interviewer to Theodore Chaliapin , the great Russian bass, on his last visit to London. Sadly he said he thought not. “I would like to hear her” he said. “But somehow I always lose my way to religion. I start out to go to the church, but, ah, the Devil! He take me always to the restaurant. . Ho! Ho! So ' many devils, too. “But —let me tell you. After two years l myself will open a leetle monastaire.” Chaliapin, who is now touring England, intends to let himself go more when singing English. **/ shall try and explain in the provinces my songs before 1 sing them,” he said. “The song may not prove comic, but the English will. When I begin to explain the song, the people will laugh. Then 1 shall sing, and the people will ” His face took on an expression of grim sadness.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 542, 20 December 1928, Page 20
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164Chaliapin Will Open A “Leetle Monastaire” Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 542, 20 December 1928, Page 20
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