The evening world. Newspaper, December 29, 1910, Page 5

‘ _ THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1910. Humperdinck’ s “Koenigskinder” Successtully Launched; Geraldine Farrar Makes Big Impression as the Goose Girl Score of the New Opera! Full of Melody, the) Orchestration Superb and the Singing for the Most Part Excellent Goritz Makes a Hit. 29, = THEY WILL SPEND FIVE MILLIONS 10 RING IN THE NEW Motel and Restaurant Men Pre- paring for Biggest Time Ever to Welcome 1911, | Bonsocti Ln. 54- 6-58 Twenty-third St., West. Have Arranged for Friday and Saturday Special ‘Week End Sale” Of Women’s & Misses’ THE CORKS WILL POP!.Metropolitan Opera House Crowded to Its Capacity to Hear the) Latest Work of the Composer of ‘‘Haensel| Suits, Coats and Dresses Speculators Tables for Holding Many | tortionate Prices At Most Attractive Prices From Visitors With Coin. fn the past year, In spite of that bug- Wear, the “increased cont of living”; fn spite of the higi tariff, failures in Wall street and all the other cries of {he pessimists, New York and his wife, his neighbor and his neighbor's wite are making ready to down to $5,000,000 New Year's supper pi | Saturday night. It will be the biggest New Year's ight In the history of the celebration | of that feast day in New York. More out of town folks are here than ever Vefore, more New Yorkers are staying | home from Lakewood, Atlantic Clty, | Florida and the other winter resorts to | celebrate in restaurants and thei than ever before, and In apite of all the talk of hard ‘| the champagne busine: nat prosperity—shows receipts that have mounted beyond the dreams of the axente, The Millionaires’ Bread Téne—the sirung-out gatiering of who are clamoring for tions In the Broadway nue restaurants the wealthy | table reserva and Fifth av hotels—began o form last June and five weeks ago every table in every well known place of refreshment in the city was booked. How They'll Spend. Here ts the rough estimate of principal | restaurateurs and hotel men of what New Yorkers and the visitors to the eity will spend in welcoming 1911 Food and wine 83,000,000 ‘Theatres . 200,000 Flowers and ca: ay. + 200,000 Cigars and cigarettes... 100,000 ‘Taxicabs sane 00,000 tS 83,600,008 | Add to this what will be spent for tips and other incidentals and you have # Mure that is so close to $5,000,0 as to make the difference not worthy of mention. pculators Get Tables. An evidence of the hysteria which at- tends every big celebration in New| York te the fact that big blocks of| popular restaurants have t n bought et speculators and are being held out for extortionate prices at the last minute. Some of these long-headed and fur- | coated gentry, forsaking for the time | thelr stamping grounds in front of the | Metropolitan Opera House and theatres, are lurking around the and) wate the otels ing for men who are turned away becaure they m ted to apply two montis ago for table reservations, | None of the hotel and restaurant men can explain why this New Year's céle- ration will be bigger than before, but they all agree that it will, One reason « found in the extraordinary number of visitors from Philadelphia, Washi Buffalo and Pittsburg—especially Pitts: Lurg. They are coming tn from these cities where New Year's is not made an | eceasion of especially high jinks, and | they are bringing the coin, They simply don't care how much they spend, and | they have let thelr reckless intentions be known, Many Novelties Prepared. All of the restaurants have provided novelties in entertainment or in sous venirs. In one place tiny aeroplanes, 4 new invention from Paris, will be| released at the stroke of twelve. In another the lights will be lowered, the ovehestra. will strike up “The Btar pangled Banner” and Miss Kitty Gor- tion, the stage beauty, will enter in a| blaze of calcium and si Most of the Broadway pl neighborhood of Forty-second will not give the list of thetr reser tions, A majority of New York's} bankers and brokers take New Year's Eve as a play night, an dthey don’t | care (o have it known where they are, ‘L cannot say who Will be heve,” sald M. F. Grixch, the maitre d'hotel of Martin's new restaurant. ‘Sup- M’sleur Smith had told Madame he has to go to Pittsburg for ss and she reads tn The| Evening World that he was in this restqurant dining with a beautiful lady aua fol, there will be trouble, ny At the new Hotel Rector a 1 bas been adopted. You pay $10 for a seat that insures it for dinner and supper. You simply rent that much of | the hotel for seven or eiglt hours, and the $10 {s placed to your credit for food. Caruso Will Sing. At the Knickerbocker all sorts of preparations lave been made. Caruso, who lives there, will sing at the stroke of tw and it is pretty certain that xome of the other Metropolitan stars, ldine Farrar, Antonio Scotti, Smir- noff and others will join in, Last year Caruso mounted @ table In the banquet ‘all and carolled “My Cousin Carus’ * ond this year he is golng to be Just as the Plaxa the masking ve a feature ugain, Lvery p k upon entering t © nay Wear it and es: cape the scrutiny of the rank outsiders ail through supper. Thin is the idea | et We C. Bkinn secretary of the managing drector of the hotel, who saw | tried with success in F Among the reservations in the Plaza | tables for the following: Mrs, O vederick Townsend a Sidney 8. will | dine “Bie, | laurels | severa {on the steep roof | avail. und Gretel’’-A Recep- tion Follows. BY sy VESTER RAWLING. a OENIGSKINDER pre- | sented at the Metropolitan Opera House last night for was a jthe firet time on any stage, triumph for its composer, Prof. En glebert Humperdinck, and for every-| body concerned in the production. It! @ new mark for the genius of It placed fresh Alfred It proved again the capacity set Geraldine Farrar. pon the brow of Hertz. of Mr. Gatt!-Casazza as manager. 1 **| proclaimed once more the splendid invariable barometer of | Tesources of what 1s now our only} It brought out from the | opera house, | Golden West" the other day. The score {x a masterpiece of constr toh, ne Wi “It was to® King and the Queen, ty ‘bounding in frank, spontaneous. mel | Pr!4® Ye banished.” od: It has no one great dominating | Ate the Poisoned Bread. | aria, but there is a successton of beau-| The third act takes piace again before tiful arias that fitly ref or the mood. action and proclaims the out cacophony or dissonanc lude to story and elucidates nd act, while the pathos in the pre-| cupied by the Woodcutter and the to the last act is tragic in its| Broommaker, She tries to dance to intenst suggesting ‘Tristan und! convince him that she is not hungry or Isolde.” An Anti-Climax. ‘The three scenes are bh and the action is well maintained | die, throughout, but the last act should end| by with the death of the Goose Girl and the King's 8: The music and the spectacle of the funeral by the Children! are interesting tn themselves, but they The cut make distinctly for an anti-climax. first and second acts, too, might be minutes without harm, The Goose Girl and Her Flock. When the curtains were parted upon the first scene In Hellawald, which dis- sed Geraldine Farvar, as th raven, clipped as wing, moving about and smoke out of an uncanny looking chimn te middie of the clearing was a r ning fountain, with a dig trough. Be- hind and all around her spread out the great for clad mountains towering in the back- gvound, Throughout this act Miss Par-} acted and sang always with an o her flock, which mirably. Then the Witch enters and scolds her for iaziness, afterwacd making her mix ed dough to be Phe Witch de at the fountain pi paked for future parts and the girl's fran interrupted by the appearane r Who has run away athe ngdo two fir at the fountain and fall in love. I playful struggle he breaks her wreath, ct the Ineldent| ‘The orchestra sustains the! tives with The pre- first act graphically anticl-| brunn has not prospered and the chi v the there I* fine satire of the peo- Hellavrunn in the prelude to the itifully set Goose , With glimpses of the snow- | behaved ad-! t) | j@udience, which packed the audito-| wy SADLO KERAS rium to {ts capacity, such unre-| THE KINGS SON. | strained demonstrations as have | never been equalled save at the] OTTO GORITZAS premiere of Puccini's “Girl of the| “TMB FIOOLER. the Broommaker’s daughter, who say the Witch's hut, but now it {s winter, The Goose Girl and the King’s Son have disappeared. The Witch has been | burned. The Fiddler has been impris- oned and made a cripple. GERALD! FAR) AS THE TE PARRAN GIRL; AND HER Frock “HER ONLY TIBBIE” Pcp WOULD END GIRL'S | a-agane SUTFORS10,000 = ===": dren cry for the Koenlgskinder, Weary and starving, witl the snow fall heavily, the Goose Girl and the Kin, Son approach the Witch's hut, now o: a | tired, but falis unconscious. In exchanxe | for Is crown the King’s Son obtains the bread poisoned as described tn the | first act, of which they both eat and | In @ shroud of snow they are found | the Fiddier and the children and | given sorrowful burtal, Miss Farrar's Succes: SIRL AND THE SINGS scan THE SNO Sor of her best tinpertonutions: Site never | Sele rece ae act * 1G. A. Tibhetts Asks Court | - MARRIED LOVER | Lee ae oa Dealing alike to the fmagination “ | Nor anything injurious in ibaa Peau aay ater singing) Quash Breach of Promise spirit ogether her rmince Wits Hale’s Honey Of Horehound and Tar ‘Tadlowker an the Kin ntrary, was disappotntit Action by Housekeeper. OF 35 YEARS AGO; reclining lazily. upon @ bank of | He lacked something of the idea 4 —_—.- | je quailty 0 surrounded by @ flock of geese | Spirituality that the: mystle auallty ¢!| oiiver agaison Tibbetts, a retired reat | ; Pe |the character seems to Sexsanc a Phew: ik oUllinwa bebe that honked and flapped thelr wings, | though he sang. fairly Anibe |‘eutate’ ope: pig tated ing e were murmurs of delight from | qromer, too, as the Witch mile tool lawyer to Court Justice Page for coughs, colds and sore all ove: the house, The picture was @/ ically her performance was corrects} ig tay to jy renee Ss rugarists. pretiy one. Opposite her waa the| was not ax convincing as usual. It ix] 000% discontinued the $10,000 throat, All Drugyists. {Witeh’s hut, low, forbidding, with a] 4n ungrateful part at best, and perhaps | Sult for of promise brought | she did all that could be done with it { Goritz Scores Again. his former A. Carne |Seventy apuevane Md Bride's Pike's Toothache Drope houxekeeper of Ch | garen aatie Bede Gated apa tnee te ts fs sixty and white haired. | Brother Seeks Committee |= ~~ Sites | -| his fine gallery of character drawin: is twenty-ni M Tih . | re‘ making sta worthy companion to his|betts has married wince Miss Carney al to Care for Her $250,000 GREAT REDUCTION SALE Peter, his Kiingsor and his inimitable | loxes he swore undying love for her and! . . |Beckmesser, He showed @ rolicking| called himself “her only. 4 Mr | spirit, combined with light and Inow!- | Tibbetts marvied. Mivs ah edge, and no little pathos. Reiss WA9| acters, 1, “Tne, 10). He was Keo. AN! The recent culmination of a romance UAL Sei ale ehoastaleteas ariel sail Cor’ Burope on, his honeymosr whe, j broken off thirty-flve was satisfactory a# the Innkeeper. Julius | Miss Carney had him arrested on the j overs’ spat was brought to Hight to-day | Bayer wan the Tatlor and Marcel Keiner | breach of promise suit by an applt was the Senior Councillor, Miss Carney also sued M | tire € Marie Mattfeld did a for $3.40 uhe declared hie ation to Supreme Court Jus. Tibbe In Speetat akiyn small bit of ‘ norroWed fr for the appointment of a committer to cter sketching as Stable Maid | |, SHO GMOR CHIN GR EhIW GUlt weani toe v ; ently and Florence Wickham was |; papal Be pe uited for the person and property of M satisfactory as the Innkeepers Daugh-| 2 | he ond trial re- | Rleanor Seott Ongle eventy-olehe Edna Walter and Lottle Enget) SUlted in a judgment for Miss Carney years old, w Wax a spinster until direct from America’s Were charming in the two leading chil-| | David HH. z appear & as counsel nine days i leading manutace dren's parts. One of them (the pro-| for Miss ORNL ARC MUR hanrea recone Holl AU AON gramme does not make clear which), | posed the dismiysal i ait Hany Onklay, wha ih Sptynigee we | while graciously helping the writer to|clared that Pibbetis had failed to pay he $3400 Judgn In defending th Brooklyn Tax Departr find Miss Farrar for an interview the | ¢y AhAltia occas save the middleman's | qther day, gravely pointed to the door enormous profit. | Aaa 4 $400 sult Mr. Ti Because of this marria vr brat offers her his crown, and persuades her 6¢ Miss Parrar’s soom in the opera ; | mY 5 | to run away with him. But the Wit te deh and Ral? | betta ¢ ed that Misx Carney fright-| George Scott, thinks th KRAMER FURS powers prevent her escape and he “This is Miss Farrar's dressing room. | ened him into si note for $h0M, | take care KNOWN : away alone. Upon the Witch's Mine is next por We iia tm ana | ate : whieh Ia € THE WORLD OVER re a Oteann ELAlRbE consis!- She It was who did the “Ring | hen I signed that note t was in her) his lawy¢ SINCE "1873"! fee t ar reise 4 : Avouasuttar ana @ roay" dance so charmingly with a apartment. Sh ewtened me and 1| Dee, 17 the SINCE “1873 ne giro : King’s Son in the Heilabrunn scene twa weraid, it 1 did n i Yo in ; . A the Broom-maker, call upon her to ad | fhe"chidren dn the caorua. acted and | Wi" {ral Hid not give ing OUR WHOLESALE PRICES REDUCED vise them how to find She S4Y% sang with spontaneity. The chorup of bones or breuch | a y. . e the first person to ant town at men and women, too, had Ife, Ernest ap rtlou, "OF salve Beware ‘‘, noon next day shall be he e Fid- Maran and William Hinshaw were tall, ane Acca AM atrahy wee | ine the ntight by and inte dler effects the release rose handsome and imposing Gate-Keepers. a itestaun cath any als afraid shel to the Adams : Glen ahbee patent eek oth Hertz conducted fervently and ad-| SOW ; i mutation, 391 She disapp loy the obs ad oe mirably., M of the success of the} ghar PhONa) ha nee ants ere right ro ra akan fe Flr yee performance Was due to the tirelessness | re Peaks re eae the Goose Girl's lly ablaze, for which, e naries Henry ’ fa calls, wae omitted last night | ecausn lok THECPROGRE Ga ath of the| tnd Introduced Ongley a " pays ed of its own accord and the s a reception to Prof. Hum-| prides Commander After the ‘ Witch destroyed tt yerdinck on the ond floor t er At Miller, the Onley on GENUINE RUSSIAN Opera House af the perfort rg of Miss rombie Mil. | dren. u How the King Was Vet. which was attended by gome of the to Walter It, Tuckerman ash-| to her love The second act takes place on the ine! jrnow: neople in Gigian,.D. On at MORIAGHE Mo ret ce ounk ’ side of the Imposing gates and walls of a ee terday’ was a quiet affulr, attended by took up the CAMACEE CONTS. Oi tongth Hellabrunn, On one side is an inn and EARTHQUAKE IN GREECE nembers of the Immedate families only. | pornos alee ease, CMI ss on the other @ tribune. | n the Madise ‘Mae ; : Are awaiting noon to dl CAUSES HEAVY DAMAGE. eee jong uy ine thelr new ing. The Kin, _ she wa found shelter in the place. lot of action there, Including With mob scenes well 1 course the King to be 4s the who makes a beautiful pict gates are opened. On her he: crown of the King's Son and following her are her geeve. The appeals of the King’s Son and the Fiddler are of no The kingly children are stoned and thrust ovt tnoontinently, together with the Fiddler. 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