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Title: Interpreters

Author: Carl Van Vechten

Release Date: June 26, 2010 [EBook #32979]

Language: English

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INTERPRETERS

by

CARL
VAN VECHTEN

_BOOKS BY CARL VAN VECHTEN_

INTERPRETERS

IN THE GARRET

THE MUSIC OF SPAIN

THE MERRY-GO-ROUND

MUSIC AND BAD MANNERS

THE TIGER IN THE HOUSE

MUSIC AFTER THE GREAT WAR

[Illustration: MARY GARDEN AS CHERUBIN (1905)]

Interpreters

_Carl Van Vechten_

_A new edition, revised, with sixteen illustrations and an epilogue_

[Illustration]

New York Alfred A Knopf

MCMXX

COPYRIGHT, 1917, 1920, BY
ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

_To
the unforgettable interpreter of Ariel,
Zelima, Louka, Wendla,
and Columbine,
Fania Marinoff, my wife_

CONTENTS

Olive Fremstad 11

Geraldine Farrar 39

Mary Garden 59

Feodor Chaliapine 97

Mariette Mazarin 117

Yvette Guilbert 135

Waslav Nijinsky 149

Epilogue 177

ILLUSTRATIONS

Mary Garden as Cherubin _Frontispiece_

FACING
PAGE

Olive Fremstad as Elsa 18

Olive Fremstad as Sieglinde 20

Olive Fremstad as Kundry 24

Geraldine Farrar as Elisabeth 40

Geraldine Farrar as Violetta 46

Geraldine Farrar as Louise in _Julien_ 52

Mary Garden as Chrysis 72

Mary Garden as Melisande 76

Mary Garden as Fanny Legrand 90

Feodor Chaliapine as Mefistofele 112

Mariette Mazarin as Elektra 128

Yvette Guilbert 140

Waslav Nijinsky in Debussy's _Jeux_