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& uw % |DERSSMAKER WHOSE EYE WAS BLACKED IN FIGHT PARSIFAL 10 BFP AND WOMAN SRE ACCUSED OF HAVING STRUCK HER, HEARD. TO-NIGHT “Weaknesses Developed in the Dress Rehearsal Have Been Remedied and Everything Is in Perfect Readiness. 7 MR. CONRIED HAS TRIUMPHED @tars Resting for the Supreme Mo- ment—Every Seat Sold Weeks Ago Many Persons Come from Out of Town. At 5 o'clock this afternoon “Parsifal" wil emerge from behind the vell and Richard Wagner's crowning work will be submitted for the first time to the eriticlem of a New York audience. Prep- arations that have been in progress for three months have been completed and | all fs now in readiness at the Metropol- | ttan Opera-House for the rising of the curtain, The finishing touches to the production were = aric yesteniay when certain weaknesses, which developed during the dress rehearsal on Tuesday, were rect}- | fled and all the of departments reported to Man Conried last night that everything was in good worlting order. In addition sual preparations tor an oper ance there was ‘unwonted bustle and excitement around the opera-house yesterday, incident to the providing of those in front Owing to the un © comforts for and behind the scenes, hour at which the and the intermiz- t for dinner, it has turn the buffet on the into a dining-room and i this enta lot of- extra advance work, altic Ue actual provisioning of the house will not take place until to-day, There were many Who believed up toa Mttle “whtle ago that “Parsital’ would " not be produce? this seagon, but all vicis- eltudes have been overcome and the new impresario at the lead of the Metro- politan Opera-House has broken through the sanctity of the Bayrewth circle Which hedged about the work and has unoovered the operatic gem. All Opposition Overcome. In order to accomplish this much, op- * , position has been mat with from Bay- { reuth, from that section of the clergy which dislikes the portrayal of any- thing touching upon religious matters | on the stage and from the personal sympathizers with Frau Cosima Wag- ner, in addition to the lawsult with the lady herself, but throughout it all Mfr, Conried has been buoyed up by the urgent demands of American lovers of BLACKED HER EE IN STREET FIGHT Then Mrs. Caron-Treaboux, * Dressmaker, Had Mrs. Gray Arrested and Taken to Court (Shetched in Court by Mortimer for The Evening World.) Mrs, Hazard took the stand. in plain English, trippingly: of no previous epgagement beti two women. It was plain to sce Airs. Georgette Caron-Treaboux was in- boux, “I agreed to make two dresses for this lady, and on Saturday I de- livered one of them. She came to my plage yesterday with her friend—what's art who insisted that such a work oi her name—oh, yes, Mrs. Hazard. They spaicated' — boeiilea: at sud w e~ ‘ ¥ udge, Intoxicated! came into my parlor, And then Mrs. longs to the world and to no individual.} on an Assault Charge. la? | ay. plead un oe taivet eniten {ma vie. I was not. Non. Non. With & burst of tears the dressmaker delayed the proceedings for a few minutes. Then the Magistrate sal "Mrs Gray to| Hazan continued: When they came “E never took | Gownyalrs the dressmaker struck Mre t Mrs. Gray took the stand and then told this story to offset the word of the dressmaker: “I received one of the gowne last Saturday. I wanted to get a pretty gown for Christms and I saved up for {t for «ix months, She Tulned it and } told her she might as well take aes Rok; as it was now ho use to me. For ais part he has spared neither time, money nor forethought to maie . fhe Production “a memorable one, this is ‘been ably” aacisted by Saishrcudes hin, The orchestra, ‘under the leadership of ‘Saltred’ Hertz, has had more rehearsals of the music than were ever before at- tempted prior to any similar production, and its proflolency may be judged by the fact, vouched for by the leader, that when the olectric lights eud- denly fafled at a recent rehearsal the musicians continued playing in dark- ness for four minutes without making and some lace. Yes, she walked out with at? “Buch untruths,"” said Mrs. her friend, Mrs. zard. anything but what belonged to m Then the Magistrate waved his hand for silehce and the dressmaker con- tinued with her story: “Mrs. Hazard remained Mrs. Gray walked out ot my place and stood upon the outer steps. I went to the window and saw In the West Gide Court to-day ap- peared a French dressmaker, Mre. Georgette Caron-Treaboux, of No. 165 West Bichty-fourth street, Mrs. Marion Gray, twenty-two years old, pretty and born in Dublin, and Mrs. Annie Hazard, her friend, who ives at the Martha Washington Hotel whenever she comes here ¢rom Baltimore, her home. Mrs. Caron-Treaboux was the com-|the woman, but the stuff had disap- Vhen I went to her place I found my * AP the principal artists, Alois Burg-|lainant amd to show that she had @|peared. Then Mrs. Hazard and myselt| (ove, Geuowie Wace and velvet agi alee a ae Vir aye este real grievance she removed a thick black | walked out. I wanted to get back the} dust in the world mleee settle upon Aa Auw Oran inte nnne hte an Vell, exposing an eye decorated in inky |veivet and the lace and the chiffon. I/1t, Of course I took Was it not Foie ae "Bayrouth ‘and thelr respects black, @ Mp that showed a jagwed cut/tBok hold of the shirt waist of Mrs.| "ine? This woman come efter. me and Proficient. The othens have worked that was marked as if with y Steadily tight along, and the renult of lev tne ieeint at something heeds ang (oTey: Ab hcienia tlai loal Pay lanes 4 thelr efforts will be shown to-night, Aql | 2 ay Ob; iy! how she ateuck me then! | PES Gray showed the Magiatrate th sha/ principals took'a rest yeatenday and | Court Hetened patiently to the tales Ofliahe ht me and hit meagein; There} pdete ore’ or these pendahinn tens Whit reat to-day. oat all three women and then decided that! were three hundred people there—wom-| $n diab. ‘Tho Magistrate looked at ApaL an "been prepared Abrond few | Mrs. Gray should be held for examina-| 4, men, boys and girls. It was such|{t and winked both-eyes and admitted Original pletures; While. the Intricate | tion and placed the bail at $100, indignation. I suffered in mind andj ‘hat in some cases it might be a for- midable weapon of defense or attach. ‘hen the story of the police interfer: ence followed, “Ma fol, ma‘ fol," muttered the dressmaker as she left the court when the Magistrate had pronounced his beu- édiction for Mrs, Gray “Did_you ever?" sald Mrs, Gray and Mrs, Hazard in unison, stage machinery has been devised and will be superintended by Anton Fuchs, who has been identified for twenty Years with all the performances of *“Parsifat" at the Mecca of Wagnerism, Audience to Wear Evening Drens, The question of the costumes that should be worn by the audience has ap- parently been deci The dressmaker didn't, talk English with fluenoy, so the Magistrate call for an interpreter. Occasionally she would forget her nativity and lapse Into the language of her patrons. Then the Magistrate lstened with more interest, “Ma foi,” began Mrs. Caron-Trea- my body hurt so much, too. help, but no one came to my rescue. At last there was a policeman, and When I made ‘im understand he took charge of this lady.’ ‘Then there were more indignant re- marks qn the aside from Mrs, Gray and Mrs, Hagerd. I cried for, a aM d by the leaders of fashion, and, following the precedent set 4n England ‘durin the performances of the “Ri evening dress will be de riguéur. Apart from’ precedent, there 1@ ood “reason for this, inasmuch as+a urried trip home after the first act, a WORLD: "THURSDAY EVENING; DECEMBER 24, 190%, ISHINEFF'S HOPE LIES INTHE WORLD Only Bae =Gar Can Avert New Massacre Planned for Jan. 7 to- Exterminate the Jews in that City. LONDON, Dec. 24.—The sollowina des- pateh from The World's special cerresvanient at Kishinef, Southern Russia, sen! secretly across the Russian border to Jassy, sixty Sokoloff, a prominent iawyer among the counsel for the complai_ants in the Kishineff massacre trial, was ar- rested there this morning at o'clock. yesterday.’ The Russian Government Is de- SANTA which has brought happiness quick change into evening costume, fol- lowed by a hasty meal, would tend to put them out of sympathy with the solemn atmosphere of the performance. From far-distant cities parties were |“ g@priving at the uptown hotels all day yesterday to be present this evening. And many more are expected to-day. The police expect to handle more than @ thousand carringes, and have taken elaborato precautions erowds that are expected to assemble to watch the arrival of the penatense and perhaps also to secure wore wold room in the house. 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