The evening world. Newspaper, April 5, 1911, Page 18

f k = PND RE ORT ORR ROOST RN anne pase THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1911. “W0 VADIS” BIDS ‘Strong Scenes in the th pa een Sung tor First Time in Metropolitan FOR FAVOR ONLY AS A SPECTACLE First’ Production at Metropoli- HUNTER KEN TOTESTFY ABUT SINMONDSBOKS Former State Engineer Fails to Respond When Called | as a Witness. tan Opera House Gorgeous in Stage Pictures, MUSIC NOT STARTLING, ¢ | Subpoena servers are trying to find | Frederick Skene, former Stato En- |gineer, an@ Edward Mason, his former lolerk, for the purpose of having them tell what has become of the books of the bankrupt firm of Frederick’ Sim+ monds & Co. and why the former State Engineer wanted the books at the time he was under indictment at Albany: | Neither Skene nor Mason responded to-day when tl james were called out at the Investigation States Commisioner Tho ‘The hearing adfourned, afte few witnesses, until Tuesday at 10 ooh Generally Pleasing, but Not Worth Place in Repertory of Company. BY SYLVESTER RAWLING. UO VADIS?" an opera’ by “ Jean Nougu the last noveliy of the season, was presented at th House Jas: nig morning e Metropolitan Qnera by Mr. Dippel’s Pull At that time it fe expected Skene and adelphia-Chicago Opera Company. The * to the front with house was sold out, and, despite the eo ng books nd the reasons that impelled the for= weathor, the atandees were rows deep Wee cerca ay aero (nee, bebind the rail. There w Francis 1, curtain calls after each clearing house principal singers and for © | Exeha: cated as aw . set fled that he did not know of any troub| w ducted, but there 5 1 ie la the Simmonds flrm on Maret 11, 1911 marked enthusiasm at ‘The truth te, [but he had tesued Instructions as to the must sues firm's business on he cred AS a, spectacular presentation If tt [learned of financial t 18 con- succeed at all, and avery gorgeous Abner 8. Werblin, counsel for the facie it is that Mr The music ts a noxligt It Is Ittle better than com At Drury Lana or the Hippodrome, it would pass without question, but at ¢ Metropolitan Opera House there n be mainta’ a higher stan musical expression, or there is t as musical art. There 1 tage for the non-musical pat opera in M. Nougues's work. The: no harassing modern cacophonies or dis- sonances to disturb the ear, Everything | {s smooth and fluent and, in a way, | pleasing, Dips some difMflcnities of his own © witness to 1 presents. say who In- H Demanded Creditors’ Checks. He demanded first three checks for amo ts due creditors of the Sim Jaccount and got them, said the {Under the rules of the Exchan| bers who owe balances | fellow-broker must pay he jamount to the Exchange for pro rata jdivision among creditore of the sus- CHILD BALKS SUICIDE pended member, and the purpose of the AND SAVES FOUR LIVES. | inquiry was to fina out what business Simmonds had when «is house got the etal fas resident Jarvis of the Consolidated Sxchange testised that the Simimon ts firm was suspended March 20 because it was insolvent John J. Roach testified that nformation concerning the rm and rep ation with immonds in which he charged that immonds said he had plenty of money “4 ing. | Mr. Werblin expressed some curlostty hevat.| Had not five-year-old Elizabeth Rein. [@# to why Roach had not remembered hardt, who lives on the floor hat ‘conversation at the time of his Flannery rooms, been |tormer exam! mother and other dwellers s Roach testiti Would probably have lost their lives rokkkeee that § \HAURICE RENSUDiESS) PETRONES PCPS eae SleEas EUNICE) er. mem- anded whole even to the blatant chords | sually associated with the circus, To ve fair to M. Nougues, when the Chris- tans come to take active part in the development of the plot his music HEELeR=— t on an ecclesiantical flavor that! URSUS, _ ALICE ZEPEILUAS troie., Awakened by Gas, Little Girl Finds] Mother, Two Men and Crippled | Woman Unconscious, { Margaret Flannery, twei } old, a ertp; {in the basement aps st One Hundred eet by inhaling WAcTER, ‘omething in It of dignity and much of pathos, Something of the Story. | “Quo Vadis?" is composed to an ex-| lent lbretto in French by Henri ‘in, taken from the famous novel by he Polish writer, Henrik Steaklewicz. A most admirable translation of the | ext imo Englisl has been made by Algernon John Brenon that !s scholarly, fluent and well worth read- Ing for its own sake, The opera ts in fi consisting of two | of the ts left to the imagination, The first and|in the final concert of its nineteanth | to the Harlem Iospital, ; ndelss ppareatly dy- the last scenes are well set, but the| se n Hall last an after climax. It Is unneces ry to the y. The play st end with the ue of the Christians by the mob when it Is convinced that) Nero ts the firebug and pute him to flight. The Principal Singers. Poppea, Nero's Empress, was ir the musict oft from the Is set long ted of Mozart folins, two q that Ryley, a dis- vad told him in mds was not care account after he He did not develop anything is antipathy to Sim Februa rying stock for » with whom she lived, liad left Thetr crippled sister red to end her life by fasten: bought it new, not violas and two Pp cen 4 i | movements of Max Re A as tube In her mouth. The gas as sonated by leonora dl Cisneros, a) ovement mout he gas | mone ‘ Mr. Hammerstein's leading contralt flat mafor, played by and {pervaded both floors, When the chill) Mrs, Henry Anchester, clad in a black PP ee ee OE asc uicuniy familiar we (he aotroe| HE sextet tio [awoke h Was unconscious and | tailor gown, wearing fur ia slaves, for Petronius, clus, his nephey m victorious w fa king, who ts held ° d is a Christian Chilo, a Greek h reward prom- 4 out all about her, wihtle Petronius gets Nero to command L: two viola @ boarder, and! leonic hat that was tapp politan Opera House as Eleanor Broad: ; ¢ Brooklyn, It was ne this sterling A lotted nd she was handsome « next season sday evenings, M, Deo. 12, } Jan, 15, Feb. 13, March 12 and April ® | j, into the found Miss Macha LONDON EDITOR STRICKEN, | ©! * — a NO ONE TO GRUMBLE. figure d acted lke nett istlans, who sang a Coat of tolappear at the next day's fesiiv aha Whe ihe the | Chartes F. M. Hell of “The Timer” Agaeduct. | John N. Carlisle of Watertown, ap. The second act takes place on the ter- she ts. Al also mss: In aauit alning a large|pointed by Gov. Dix to investigate the Of Nero's palace. There is a wild | Thirty-fourth stre was an | Digeste 2a Oleg constabulary £ Service Commission, sat for his | ree aloug the line of the} Public S Frederic ) Catskill A duct to preserve order and t public hearing yesterday t ef lenforce the law among thousands of neers’ Society Building. Not a co “|e th engaged on the great water- Lygia, Lill beauty as Eunice could not fa Moverly Bell, m tract, but most of her singin: the London Times harshly upon the ear dealy at pls ofice Dufrdnne, as Chilo, made the deepest LONDON, burning of Rome it Charles gin Plainant appeared; not a complaint ¥ In required to pay the |receved. his skill as poet and sin way, the city He was costs of criminal expenses in counties | indefinitely. wets Te alone ¢ « impression, both as actor and singer aie wherein arrests are made of aqueduct| Mr, Carlisle announced that he would pon ber until h His was a most artistic, if grotesque, | and in 1s workers. The latest claim comes from|go right ahead with his investigation, srottles him and carries | eset ete <e' 2 Ulster County, for |and he said he hoped by May 1 to have Persecution of the Christians. erlininal pre of lit concluded. 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