The evening world. Newspaper, March 15, 1907, Page 5

Only. Two Directors Have Made Money Out of the Enterprise. - HISTORY OF THE HOUSE! Fotinded in Opposition to the Academy of Music—Now’ Looms Up Hammerstein. ge AURICE GRAU'S death, the,an- M nouncement of which waa cabled from Parls yesterday, was a shock to old ppera-goers with grateful imemarins, With no protestations of ‘devotion to musical art. indeed- with a imore Gr "leas pronounced oxpresston :of wontompt for.it he brought to the Metropolitan “Opera-House a galaxy of star’ alngers the ilke of which no other aingie opera-house ever saw. ‘That che got substantial pecuniary Yewanls for his enterprise doeg not de- tract {fom ble glory. If his commer- cjalism paid, New York opera lovers alsdiprofited. To him, \orimarily, was due ithe introduc of the two Da " 'Rexakex, Melba, E ‘ordicd, Calve and a lot of other great singers. With the exception of Frau's suc- coegnbr, the present df Meinrich Contled, no other impresario has mado a fortune out ef opera-giving at the (Metropolitan. There in a tradition that Jy nealth and beoken fortune are ie tnevktable consequences of arsuming the positloli. Mr. Conried’s physical break- down this seaton has lent some color to the bellef, But the facts disclose thattt ts only a half-treth. : ‘Why the Metropoitan Was Bulit. Col. Mapleson was directing opera at thy old Academy. of Muslc_when the Motropolitan /Opera-House was opened. He was not making millions out of the enterprise, but the “demand for boxes by fhe increasing circle of rich men <mwas Bo far in excess of ie supply that the disappointed ones “bu the new house. Henry E. Abbey was Installed as directo and aksoclated with him were John B. Schoeffel and Maurice Grau. ‘Faust was presented at the opening performance, on Oct. 2, 188%, with) Christine Nilsson as Marguerite end’ Campanint as Faust. at the Acad- ‘ete Cot. Mapteson's chief atlraction was Patil Tha first season ended with a loss to Abbey estimated at a quarter of a milljon dollars. A benefit performance given om Aprit 21, 18H, nlited him ¥8,- '000,) The rest of the deficit Abhey mnad@ up out of the proceeda of suc- leessfnl theatrical enterprises, He had no wish to cantique in office. Gy@, who wax Mapleson’s rival in jLendpn, was tnyited-to-succeed Abbey; “{the European gingers demanded chihigh salaries that ho {nformed the *diregtors he could not carry out the Teontract.—‘Phen steppedinte-the-breach 'Dr. GLeopold Damrosch, \whd gave a —season of German opera—1S81-: diediin harress, —_S¢ven Years _of German Opera, _ ¥dmoné—-C. Stanton was appointed @uccessor to Dr. Damrosch ona salary ‘the @rectors assuming the financial re- isponmibillty. Then followed seven years 6t Germ pera, during which Lilli ~ dehmann, Mppiacine Bravaty Fischer and a host of other famous ngers were introduced to the Now }¥erk public, and the works of Wagner becatne popular. Déeiiring « change to French and Italfan ‘oper, Abbey, Schoeffol and Grau were ‘invited to resume control in 1891. Tho fire Prevented one seagon, but, with that ~Sexcéption, tie three were in) charge of the hollse until 1897, Then financial dit- -| Gculbles not connected with the opers- houre caused a withdrawal of the firm +frota the smanagement, and Maurice “Gat: xeeumed= the” directign- stone—-It- ——wras‘tn-May;-11,-that-he--took charge. and he remained tn coptrol until the end Of the season of 1X3. Then ill-health —~enforced-tis-ret! din the scan __-AEWEO BY RABBI, | ngcond nection of freight ‘train _Man__ with. Second. Family ~-Makes-Novel.Defense_in “Suit Wife’ ‘Brought, Adolph Salzman, of, No. 1991 Second avenue, a thrifty. painting <contract-r, with-fcores of employees, puts in two ‘novel=defoncea to the sult of Mollie ~ Balaman’ for am absolute diyorce,.and alimony. She recites that they were married to. Wargew, Russia, In 1881, and have > two. chiitren—ons: 2 married daugnter, _with whom ahe js now Jlving, at No. 29 East One "Hundred; and Fifth street. She says he ‘Weserted her{ twenty-one” yeats ago, to STasHe Sha came; to ca to Nyy weA her ‘dadsticr~ fourteen fuonthsa ago, and the other day she ‘Migoovered that he and Mary Zimmer. Man were living with thelr five chil- “dren-at No_ 1991 Second avenue, where _ they ere known as Mr, and Airs, Salz- man. |) t : +) %@ this Salsman replies that when ho @nd Mollie, got married in Warsaw ho . Wad @ eoldier in the army of the Czar, and under Russian law a soldier ts for- hidden to marry, Bevides, he-says, he afterward discovered that Mollie already / ‘had a hunband ana daughter, both of gehom are still tiving in London, On Wn.idiecovery,’ Salzman says, he got a binical divorce, which is {eget in Russia, and the eame rabbi who mar- Flod him and Molle ‘granted the divorce hd later on ‘performed the ceremony Which made Mary Zirhme: coming ‘Mila.\ts the complicated aibtiation : Parsuing Metropoli | Moustrative. ~~ Bertabine, nd | niet; to He feral bine {THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 90Ts Maurice Grau's Death Recal tan Opera-House Managers son of 1907-1904 Mr, Conrled was elected his mccessor, © How the Directors Fared. Henry E. Abbey, the frst directo, Gied of worry In Octoder, 180¢,but eaiae from his first year of directorship, when hin lossea were: heayy, the worry may not. be attributed to Metropolitan Opera-House cares, Dr. Leopold’ Damrosch's death was due to natural causes, with which the Metropolitan Opera-House management had nothing to do, Edmond C, Stanton was declared a bankrupt! in London In 1807, and he died |. tn Bournemouth in 1801, long. after his connection with.the Metropolitan’Opera- House had-ceased. Aboey, Schoeffel and Grau made an as- aignment jn May, 18%, but other disas- trous enterprises—not the Metropolitan Opera-House—were responsible for that. The samo Ja truo of the petition in bank- ruptcy made by John B. Schoeffel in 1899, , Two men have made money out of the: directorahip of the Metropolitan Opera-House—Maurico Grau and Hein- Jpon the horizon uf the sharet of patronage and looma the figure of Oscar with his Manhattan Opera-House, SYLYESTER RAW Russian Symphony's Season Closes With T Ruslan Symphony Society's wixth concert at Carnegie Hall last night, which closed the sea- son, was One of Its best. The audienc was larger than usual and quite as desert us this spring for his nattve Ger- many. was catleg back to bow his thanks many times. “The Divine Poem" is the name given epmphony,.which, . Fas announced, would take fifty: min- utes without a break to play. A's a mat- ter of fact, Jt was done within forty- three rhinutes. It purports—td express mustoally the comp jser’s philosbphy. of. Ute. The introduction promises novelty. and surprise, but the four movements tn one progress along a level plane of high | altitude, with plenty of sounding brasi.. Like most of Scriabine's works which | have boon) made known to us this win- tor, it is clover and well orchestrated, but without marked intrinsic beauty of Impelling.p' , BOOM SKN ae a *Cethiet was: i -§ +n--the—tfirat. movement of Davi- | Bort hird concerto in D. majo Yn FREIGHT-TRAIN-RUNS- Two Trainmen. Killed and Many, Cars Demolished on the on the Erie Rallroad went over an om- pankment at this place early to-day, -.Dwe trainmern were tell bet # RUB Der fatally-injured. 2a — Dwo--engines>and TO BREAK-UP A.GOLD, AP crescent An eminent authority on lung troubio, who effected mzny re- markable cures in his camp ;for’ consumptives in the. pine woods of Maine, advises the uso of the following formula: Virgin OU of Pine '(Pure), one-half ounce; Glycerine, two° ounces; | good Whiskey, one-half pint. 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