Notes

Basso Feodor Chaliapin announced that next year he will have his own opera company. "Who will be in it?" asked the skeptical. "Wait and see," replied shrewd S. Hurok, Chaliapin Manager. "Where will it play?" they asked. "In larger U. S. cities, in Cuba and Mexico," answered S. Hurok. "What operas will it give?" "The Barber of Seville" boomed Chaliapin, the Barber.

Tenor Beniamino Gigli, in a blue smock, stood in "Magic City"--a metropolis erected in gold and crimson papier-mache in the Grand Central Palace, Manhattan. Caroling snatches of famous arias to attract the pennies of the crowd, he sold leather novelties for charity.

Rosa Ponselle sang in the season's premiere, La Juive, at the Metropolitan last week. She had not been heard in the role since Christmas Eve, 1920, when she assisted in the last public appearance of Enrico Caruso.

A fortnight ago Mme. Luisa Tetrazzini canceled an engagement in Albert Hall, London. She could not sing, she explained, because she had taken a severe chill while vocalizing at the obsequies of the late Queen Alexandra. Last week she stood on the stage of Plymouth Hall and murmured in a rasping whisper that her cold had grown worse but that her protege, Luella Paikin, would substitute for her. Five minutes after she left the platform she broke down, summoned a physician, went to bed.