The evening world. Newspaper, December 15, 1906, Page 9

——y es The Evening World’s “Daily Magazine, Saturday, December 15, 1906. [RAR RE asa ssssassaR Sadar sresnnsrsrserassas SF OE St St AEre FRR ER WET aT ET aC A IT EIEIO OT ae Ee A New Impresario Happy Only When He, if Is Creative—Gets from His Company and Is Satisfied with That Given Himby the Public —Hints at the Double Organization, Night Opera and Lower Prices, and He Isn't Talking Through His New . Hat, was as serene as a riot “It's. Just Ike Europe, isn't; 1t?" e of an imitatiom train from St. forriit’ x by the depart filled with \ wa: at Os the long:lobby of the Manhattan Opera-House, ager, exeited gentlemen with polnted beards an football expert might have descr#bed the moYing picture as a “mass play,” A statuesque lady In operatic {ura tried to tackle the redoubtable Oscar trom | the side line, but missed him by a boa's length. Direktor's private office at the eastern end of th: through the door by the rim of his hat. But, no, he was &s plan but as new as his opera-house, “Do you find it harder to be a grand-opera !mpresarfo than a theatrical when we found ourselves manager?” I inquir Cue UN ULI ENA |coax them, I smoothe thom down 0’—the desk served for a manifestation "1 will tell you,” he said, giving his big, black cl ‘3° ; y & gs, ck clgar © moment’s‘rest, |—‘‘and dlecord vanishes. Already there {s an afr of loyalty in the opera Agra: thos trical uae agen Lon aa waID EL eRLOry eds now L am\in\— sit house. My singers are willing to stand by me, they realize that, 1 am just No, he didn’t at you're antictpating. “And won't say heaven,” he continued, ag hg thought {t over with his| first, N elgar. “Perhaps T\should.st ’<My Ife as a theatrical manager has been one of have found very little pleasure in it. own opera-house—that Is different. experience for which I have longed many years.” “And has the experience taught you anything He removed the cigar to make room for an amused “Ha!” ‘Taught me anything eending a cloud of smoke to the ceiling. thought I koa it all. And then I discovered that to learn. Mr. ein wore his celebrated hat, through it frank enough to say 50. “But grand-opera singers aren't so hard to manage {f you go about it| That's the best answer to your question, in the right wa: he went on, “I don't grieve HAD a Loyal Support BEEN vate BuTcHerR) {i ae A ey giPLomacy) NECESSITY Possibility of a “(oe FOR THE : m with Every- teicenteoe remarked my Fretich accom- Mr, ‘Ketten, expanding sind beginning to feel at home, , it was like a row.between a Parlg oabman, words and Imported gestures. er the Great, Hammerstein the Master Builder, as he hurried through There was no stopping him, Tvexpected to tind this man of large and strenuous affairs a bit ruffled. |] haven't been a butcher, nooth as his silk hat, built on the old Hammerstein | fore, that I am in my element. Yes, that {s it. | Talk about overcoming difficulties! He was simply yiclous about his con- But to produce opera, to have my | under the sun—an outside cabin for hig yalet on tho ship, a carriage for I believe I was born for tt ho repeated, leaning back in his chair and| week, what ld sho say? “I should think 80. Ve all discover that some time or other, you know.” He hadn't taken the leap from headliners and monkeys to prima donnas and tenors without learning a thing or two, and he was \ accompanied | Lazare station, The atr| All were hurled pursued by a horde of|aren’t all alike. I am willing to take the world aa I find St, and to take d remarks to match. A opera singers as I find them.” “And you haven't found them difficile?" ‘o, they're not so bad as they're printed. At least I haven't found The goal was the Herr therh so. It’s all {n the way you handle them. You must use tact, diplo- e lobby, and he escaped | macy, But, first of all, you mit sv what you're doing. You must gain | thelr respect. Now, if I had deen a butchér they wouldn't respect me Sut I have produced and conducted grand opera be- Tam a musician, and—well, I know what I am doing. The singers | mow ft, too, and we therefore get along very well together. Am I a fall wamien? No. i treat my singers with @very consideration, It's dll done within ane, freshly wala ey kindness, You cannot drive these people, They mist be coaxed. I OSCAR. getting started, and that everything can’t bo expected to run smoothly at there’s Renaud—the Irving of the operatic stage, I call him. a worry and vexation. I/tract. You should have seen {t! Forty-eight pages, covering everything 5 him to and from rehearsals—nothing left out, Yet, when his voice wasn't |{n shape for his open!ng performance, what did he do? He came to me and | told me to deduct $1,600 from his salary, And Mme. Bressler-Gtanoll! It i ore Will come in time. First I must establish my must be known to the pubdllo at large. Now, thus far?’ Impossible! You pee, 1) thing! But-I talked with her, gently, eartesfly. T didn’t, that I had a lot | when I had finished, when I had explained the eftuation to her? She maid she would sing at both performances, that's what she sald, of that I am certain. but he wasn't talking singers,” “And what about the support-of the public?” | "Come any night and set the string of people at the box-office window. The support of the public has I must get along for awhile the goods. ‘And I am delivering the goods and I am confident of the result." than I expeoted. when I find that people| been all, and even more, “T have delleved that from the first, and noth! OSE OOF OE OE OF HF OE OE Ot OE OE OF OE SF OE ye ot 8 ot at ot 8 ot Ot OE Ot 28 Ot Ot Ub OF ot OF OE Ot Ot OE Ut Oe AA AMAA AAA AO ER Se eee ‘OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN Believes He Was Born for Grand Opera. « PT TN a A ae a aE a a aT ge a ea ae a a ae Ea a TE ae Te MER RCERME RES CT RK GE rene RRP Rnr KC Cer OR rneeie without a subscription Hst, of course; put I am confident that subseribers Bonei?' I might just as well say ‘Ho's a brother of Tony, the bootblack.' AVhen I asked her to sing Carmen on Friday and 6aturday evenings of this|.And in-answer to wNb's Gianoli?" say ‘Sie's a sister of Levy, the cleaner.’ She Had never heard of such a/ The public must learn to know my singers. This will take time. But} “You atill belleys there {s rooth for two Opera houses in New York?” {sine to you.” By Charles Darnton ¢ ‘ me change my mind. I have gone ahead without help from anyone and bullt this opera house. I have scoured Hurope and brought the best alngers to New. York, I have done this without encouragement of any kind. In fact, I have done {t in the face-of discouragement on all sides. Even my own farhlly told ms I was insane, Perhaps,I am, Iam happy only when I create; and‘ the creative faculty is like inganity'It starf¥ in the head. I have given New York this opera house because | belléve New York wants ft, needs it. Opera is a-necessity to the musically inclined, and all the peoplé: who want opera can’t get it at the Metropolitan Opera-House, for the reason that tho house {s virtually sold out for the Season to subscribers. I have been surprised ut the enthusiasm, the loVe of music, that has been shown here, Particularly has the gallery surprised me. There the most discriminating appreciation of music has béen manifested at every per= formance. And the galleries have been crowded. The people are hvnery for good music, and they are willing to pay for It.” “To pay high prices?” “That is a question which I asked myself, of course, when I plansed | this enterprise, And It Is a question which may be anawered to the s =tls- | faction of everyone later on, At present 1 must keep the prices wucro \they are. With a salary Ist of $37,000 on my bands, I can't afford to monkey with the prices now, But there may % changes if the sup- port of the public warrants me In making them » may bo a double opera house, my singers | company, opera every night in the week, ant pric will put opera {f anyone asked ‘Who's| Within the reach of people who may be stayin because they cannot afford it at the present prices. 1 do not belfev® that the public's \interest {n the new opera house ts the enthusiasm of the moment; but £ lam waiting to see. Then we may see mnny things, I should like’—— But he stopped, and the hat of Hammerstein seemed to turn into + Kalle r And what did she say | when the people have heard them once they will come to hear them again—| wishing cap of Siegfried. It 18 wholly a matter of smngera. Tact, diplo-| of location. The public will go anywhere if t can get what {t wants. macy, did the business. That is the kind of support | am getting from my | my opera house were located at Forty-second street and Broadway and I| not counted on my friends helping me in this enterprise. | didn't have the goods, I wouldn't get the public. I leave the rest to the public, | New York theatre-goers are not Joyal. I “Are your old friends coming over from Broadway?" I asked, “No one {s coming out of friendship,’ sald the man who has more Tt) ertenda along Broadway than Roosevelt could shake a big stick at. “I have They might wouldn't come again. No; med that long ago. With And now, what else less you want me to Tt is nota ee You've got to deliver} come once, but if they didn’t like opera the eens {t 1s slmply a matter of getting what they want. |do you want? I-can't-think of anything more,.un ng has happened to make We fled Roy L. McCardell | The Evening World’s [Martin Green| Three Humorists [Irvin S. Cobb The Difference Between the Merry Yuletide and a Well-Framed Birthday. By Roy L. McCardell. bh HIS Christmas gift sys I tem has got me going,"* eal the Chorus Girl, SUL be star-gazing for sure if kep' up much longer, nas comes but ones a | ing so different from which you can hayo As often ad you wish, so long as you pull ‘em off before a new wudfence. “A birthday heats Christmas to shreds for another’ reason, Christmas ts give as; well aa! take, but there's a come-back “when f tactful girl has ‘a bir day without telling pow she ts. “A: girl's firet thought when she has a new fellow ‘on her staff is fiow,long must I walt with khis one before I lead the sublect gently up to month ptones and what star one was born under? Because Wednes- day’ next ls my birthday TWIN MUR bow only after you've st arinsome-giritehnesa, And + {led Julin Marlowe ami ide} ‘Adama and haya played ingenue In stock, lke I have, can you way It without getting the guy Jerry—I Miean without making the gentleman suspictous, “It wouldjmoke my mother sit up and snarl (f she Know I evet-used such slang. Of course I don't, but the way Amy De Branscombe talks it ts something force, 1 “Well, I was telling you about the dirthday gay. Every time [ get a new beau I haye a now birthday. That's the acid test. If he don't come up as Cheer- ful Charley, then I kiow I am jn on! a dead one, “And let me tell you about that. Nover bo hope- ful they'll do better riext time, Once @ dead one, al- do you once, he'll dj you again, ‘And that {a why all girls are so apt to- overestimate thelr birthdays and underoptimate their age, “Not that they want the presents “so yery much, Dut to Gnd out df Willie Everdrop loves you or loves you \not, i “All girls do it, and) they don't give’ each other away} about st, elther,’ So for goodness sake don't gay I told you! | 2 . , “Hut, at that, {f/you are courting a new doll and a he commences to nak you about what month atone! ts the garnet, and If you belleve In‘:betng born under lucky stars, don’t siart when, she pipes you off in- nocertly that next Wednesday is her birthday, “It a girl is born under a lucky star, her admtr- ers produce in a way to snake the Joweller joyful. “If %p doesn't produce, he's given some preferred miock 1h the Home and Consumers’ Ice Company, “Donald Do Branscombe has come home for Christ- mas, You remember mo telling you about that eweet graduate'from the solitary-confnement college? “Wo haven't had much trouble with him because wix-day bicycle race 1s Just his style. And tho vrowd has been eo larze and careless that Douald De Branscombe, has deen self-supporting, “Dopey McKnight has got him buffatoéd. I don't know how {t was Dopey got tho‘Indian sign on him, bat its been ever ainds Dopey and fé had words and Dopey atabbed him with the/piadno stool. “Maybe you didn’t know {t, Wit Dopey OfcKnight fa just crazy ebbut pets, only Mamma De Brana- combe won't let Him keap bhem tn the flat. “Lye heat him vay a hundred umes that he wanted to save up hie money to buy a dictionary or a gorilla, if he Knew whore they sold them on instal- ments, = "A Aictlonary and n gorilla! Ain't that jupt Ike Dopey? And he has no usp in the world for a dic- tionary, but he's like everybery else, he will set ita mind on usoleas things, "O8 gourea; we've gat « Reddy aoe wad Povey is Just daffy about tt. When we take ét out anywhere Dopey inists on carrying It “An old gent who seen him Jugging it up Broad: way after ua the other night and who had his pots with him took Dopey for an amateur pallunthropiet | | “‘Ah, maya tha amiable old sosh, ‘I’m! glad to soa Mie spirit of Christmas 1s in you, young man; It's / in mol! ‘You/are going to make some one happy with yon wald the boozy old boy; ‘I adinire you for it* “Here, make ‘em happy with this." And ho pulled out a blond wedge that would make you moan, and, tearing off the cover, he Infiloted it on Dopey. “It waa twenty bucks, and Mamma De Branscombe wanted us to go back and get the giver, because, as she sald, ho ou people and get robbed. “Say, it's a wonder she's got a son who's a rum, He doean’t steal his disposition with the rest of the things he dingy home with him, “Bay, before chat twenty dollars was warm !n mitt she was thinking up schemes to take) Miller's Joke Book, 1 copsed all my ideas, ‘Lo all) are trying to keep in line with the national motto | I would give this advice. Swipe everyting you see that you can usa Originalxy ts a foolish asset. Look at our great inventors. Those who are not born with By Martin Green. Hive discovered Joe Mil- ler and thus stamped my- self ax one of our favor! should Join tho ranks of his un-| tion attorney generally reach thelr finiwh on the In- deratudies. Weare quite an army,| side, looking out at the scenery surrounding @ poor | including writers, comedians | house, who get up their own stuff, | “Many @ promising careor ‘has beén crabbed at ure after-dinner speakers and man-| etart by a too robust conception of the rights of agers of the various rapid-tran-| others. The man who manifests a disposition to turn ait systems that keep New York-| the other cheek will be. kept busy turning tt. Do} ors healthy by maldng them you recall that line in ‘Sis Hopkins,’ ‘Never do nothin’ walk. | for nobody that won't do nothin’ for you?’ I wrote ‘Sooner or later,” sald Joe inj.that, It got the bigest laugh In the show, Why? Aaa etre Sommer anette Fry sik Qn interew at one of his of-| Because ‘people in general feel that way, piel feta ait can pias Peale as simply | 3288 hey all have to eet in Ine, Our national! “You must excuse me, I've got to lam, Proaident standing him with an axo if he didn’t give tt up| 1 Hae Aree ‘THE COIN.’ ‘The may to eet the coin} Roosevelt is proparing a special message to Cong: SET ia eceuauk saver: con. Hand out thy salve. Never over-| and I'm needed In Waskington, They had me on the | took that everybody ts\a sucker but you. Never make! jump for a few days during the session of the Civis “I eaw right away that she had set her mind on) y {t, and ber hand would follow scorn. a stagger unt you kriow where you are going to get | Federation here. That etunt of nji!llonatres advocat~ ‘With Dopey MoKnight, the simplest way is tho; 0M: a you got in wrong, make somebody else the|ing the conflacation by the Government of every- oasiest. I turned: to him; he otfll had ee ‘Teddy Bear, | body’a millions but thelr own was dng of the best I ever holding {t thht, and I ald, ‘Dopey, if you'll give) ‘our name for the public should be Patsy Bollvar.| did. District-Attirney Jerome's crusade against the me that twenty doliara I'll let you carry the Teddy| Whenever you hoar that opportunity knocks at every} pool-rooms tan't so punk either... ut the thing I class Bear!’ man's door bear in mind that In @ majority of cases’) as my one best bot at this writing ts tha Democrats “You're cal” said Dopey, and slpped Ht tome | orportunity wears boxing “gloves whon tt knocks. In} State Committeo putting rollers under Pat MeCar- “Say, Mamma De Branscombe was so mai mhe bit) the remaining few instances {t uses an axe. To| ren,’ her mink boa in two, And if you think that's easy,|achteve success you requére 70 per cent, gall, 10 per| “But, you know," I ventured, aa Joe hurried away, even though agitated, try {t once. ent, pull, 10 per cent. desire to work hant and 10) ‘that this kind of stuff has to wind \up with a snap. “Say, "kid, when {t comes to ratsing the dust around| per cent, abittty to make others do your work. per." Christmas timo, Pm the original high wind, and all| ‘When I dished out the Immortal work that has| “Oh| very well,!" ho replica others 1s imitation spread my fame all the ‘world, namely J Mr. and Mrs. Cantfooler. ©.2.£.2 £2 G2 &2 & HR STARTED To BAY HED BEEN THERE!~T'LL FIND our! FELIX, LWANY TO SEB THAT PLACE ,= SUST FOR THE NovELTy! “Never do anything and do it worse.” Q By E. F. Filnn THe DOOR-TRNDER, SHOW BNO SIGN OR RECOGNITION! MERES AN ADVERTISEMENT Ive BEBN~ER- OF A RESTAURANT CALLED “THE SIGH OF THE POPPING MINE BOTTLE" DEAR -Ler's GRY IT FOR DINNER | ~ rve Pur MY FOOT IN { iT BUT TLL TAKE A CHANCE] AND THE HEAD WAITER DOESN'T. ONE OF DER LADIES WOT WAS IN YOUR PARTY DR OTHER NIGHT FORGOT O16 GLove, MR, CANTFOOLER! JULiues Is WISE, Too! THERE'S WHAT I CALL AN INTELLIGE! WAITER-- ONTO His Tos! Your HAUNTS!) Rik oY Joe Miller, of Joke Book Fame,Talks About New York! humortata, tt was decreed that I| acme of the instincts of # pawnbroker or a corpora: | NW YORK, Deo. 16 D<« GRBHN — There are) [esses Hi Glasses to Green Glasses, His Brother at Fainny Glasses, Va. By Irvin S. Cobb.’ & name in the hotel register that the clerk won't be able to read, and then die happy, He didn't bave jany mutable presents in his valiso either, unless you ghanced to be a steam laundry and wanted a few soled shirts for a Christmas gift, But he did have againat the Cbriatmas magazine). 4 oti5 and he got it out Naat ed leaoe yas (tak : stories, I know most of (em) drummer did in the story. It waa a bottle of that | by heart, and Ite a good deal Jie whiskey—the kind they use to take off warts Uke meeting old friends when they bob UD eVETY) yich in Peorta, where they make it, One of tro | December, just as regular aa renewing a note. Passengers took a swallow out of {t and wae tn @ first Olitatmas mexazine atory out of the box| Nuvu wt tes (us fazees gad’ the, brokenta; {s usually the one about the wicked ok} plutocrat,|! iced che cork ami it gave him spinal mening! |« with one leg in the jon the wintry Christmas Bye, and just as he gets 0/1, ,oneq° our drummer friend with the bell-cond. | the door be seas his poor, underpaid cleric still pes) Wont, good-by, Green, Don't forget to tang ap ging away at the day-book, and a soitden tenter-| sour etoacing, Four brother ls | ness comes over him and an impulse to do £0: , TE Genrromtifle loninctroedn haste ota etacic etal) «ax ocaxrn oe oes eeitiem nt Sunn ANA CDe cartoon) Yeon sone ts thought by nome to have orteinited with aoveral things that recon- Gile me to Christmas, One| ts that {t oames but once aj year; another ta that after :{t) has come we won't be finding any more of those XXX-ataple-| ‘orand-for-tam{ly-use Ohristmas stories In’ the magazines for! lbout ten or eleven blessed months, Bul, on the whole, I haven't got, such a I guess Hit dates bake to Nowh, and maybe further back than that, Nix, nix on the sudden thaw among the frosen works of the oruel plutocrat in this day and getiere- | tion. In these bright amd Ott thmas- the crust plutoorat doesn’t give his Prisoners of Chillon any- unless it's a month lay-off without salary, Any time he deains to write Christmas checks tor the lihemnoreeiters you may confidently expect to hear next that the} are giving him the neoile test for reflexes down at Bellevue and @ trustee is going to be ap pointe for the estate, It has been my Observation that the wealthy old gentleman with one leg in the grave lDces to put the cther one out of the cad window on Ohristmas Dre ‘Then thete’s the yeteran-whtoh no eelf-reapecting [ernie oweriooky—the story about the chorus girl buttery of Broadway, who atte amid the stadsome | throng, the enyeat of the gay, but ts overtaken : with | |remorre jum am the baila ting out the Chrttmas| morn. You remember shat one, of course? “heim is |nomething ghout the walter'a turn-down collar that reminds her of the one her dear old dad used to wear |when he went to a funeralor had his pioture taken, and the thronging memories of Eas, life on the farm: rise up before her violet eee) ahe leaves | ner canelean compantons and steals exs¥jiin the storm (alone. Fine, very fine? But if the gay butterfly person ts miserable on Christmas Eve, just aa soon as she has found eome- Dody who ts willing to buy coplously she oertatnly | has fine control ovér herself, because you never wild | auspeot {t from her manner amt general conversation. | Also, we mustn't Werlook the one about the prodi- A] eon who mates a fortune tn the Klondike and comes home on Christmas Day, just as the oldetolics fare about to be disposseased from their humble oot, fod pays off the mortrage and handa out large chéctay | and wears a furry coat. But as for me, I don't be Meve in furrtes, { Expertence shou Sacquo Nightgown—Patterm No, 5540. EH plain eacque nightgown te perfectly smooth } over the shoulders, and can 6 mate from tho teach us that when # prodigal; heavier materiale without olumsineas or dis- |non makes a pi ne Klondike he doesn’t hice for | “sTeeahle bulk, while it ts quite mufliciently full at the To haatena right on here to God's country-|lower portion for genuine comfort. This ono ailows a the premises’ have een wublet hy the orlginal| dhotoe of yoke, or no yoke, and ts made with the wile rand begins to look around and eee {f any of| roll-over collar, po becoming equally wall adapted to { the ortetnal Morotorn eextot are atill In the mariet, |fannel, fannglette and musta, cambrig and al) the | But my fayorite of they All ty oe one that deals |thinner materials, Aa Mustrated, it 1s mado of nrovidentially mmowbound, sloth, with frills of embroidery, The quantity of m ecsiera EruMpy, Bie children! terial required for the medium atwe is} 1-2 yards 27 an exposed or § 1-4 yards 8 {nohes wide, with 3|yanis of em- wcle, And then up rise proldery for the frills. produces presenta for the| Pattern No. S40 Ia cut tn etzes for a Hi, 8, 38, y story that puta everybody 42, 44 and 44 toh bust meemare tila. grip. Lovely, fen't {ttn | the book. } | But I'm the member who has taken that degree | /Oneo I got snowbound on a train Chrivtmas Day, Wo had the drummer right there: too, but he wae one { those intellectual gtants of the travelling profes- on who spend their spare time practising a scroll aumnatiine tx the hope that some day thay oan write | | 1 ve, who starts for his club And when he got through telling his merry story “» Chie Dicsana, tut T have reagone to batiove et! May Manton’s Daily Fashions, ~~ | iF |