An Afternoon with Celebrities

At de Shay's invitation I journeyed up to X——'s studio one Wednesday afternoon at four,

my friend having telephoned me that if I could I must come at once, that there was an

especially interesting crowd already assembled in the rooms, that I would meet a long list of celebrities.

Two or three opera singers of repute were already there, among them an Italian singer and sorceress

of great beauty, a veritable queen of the genus adventuress, who was setting the town by the

ears not only by her loveliness but her voice. Her beauty was so remarkable that

the Sunday papers were giving full pages to her face and torso alone. There were to be

several light opera and stage beauties there also, a basso profundo to sing,