The evening world. Newspaper, April 6, 1914, Page 11

Century Closing 2 Weeks Ahead | For Alterations' By Sylvester Rawling. FTER all, the Metropolitan ts to close the opera season. Two weeks from next Saturday night its curtain will be rung down until November. The Century, which was to keep on until May 18, will give its) «wi Jast performance on April 19, Official announcement of this change of pro- grammo is made on the score that the necessary alterations in the structure of the house for next season compel {t. Both the balconies are to be en- larged by several rows of seats. The orchestra floor is to be laid at a new | Pitch, and the semicircle of rooms at the back is to be torn out. The entire house is to be renovated and redec- orated, The seating capacity ts to be increased by one thousand. The com- pany will begin next season's opera- ations on Sept. 14. John McCormack, the Irish tenor, Was the star atraction at last night's “Metropolitan concert, and the opera ‘house was filled to overflowing. He wang an aria from Mozart's “Don Gtovanni,” besides several Irish Bongs. These included “In Fanald's Grove,” “The Next Market Day,” and the favorite “Snowy Breasted Pearl.” New to opera audiences was a singer| from Huntsville, Ala., who sang arias from “Forza del Destino” and “! The third soloist you Know the Pleasures of the Best Short Smoke lees Adoit »,| similarly honoi Rothmeyer conducted. | Lois Ewell, because of iliness, was) unable to appear at last night's con- | cert at the Century Opera House, and | Helen Stanley became the womea) star, singing the “E’er Since the Day,” from Charpentier’s “Louise,” in fine yoice and with rare art, Morgan Kingston, with “Sound an Alarm,” from Handel's “Judas Maccabeus,” kept her good company and shared the honors with her. Louis Kreldler, Thomas Chalmers, Louis d’Angelo and | Henry Taylor were the other soloists. ‘The orchestral numbers included the jam ‘Tell overture and Elgar's “Pomp and Circumstance.” Josef Hofmann, the pianist, gave a farewell recital for the season at Carnegie Hall on Saturdaygafternoon |before a large audience. His pro- | gramine included Beethoven's sonata in D major, a Chopin group, and compositions by Rubinstein, Mopsa- kowski, Paderewski and himself. is playing was of his best, which means that he deserved all the applause that the large audience bestowed upon him, “Tosca,” with with Geraldine Far with the incomparable Scotti as Scar- pla, crowded the Metropolitan Opera House on Saturday afternoon in a performance of great merit. Mr. Po- lacco conducted. In the evening “Der Rosenkavalier” was sung with the effective cast of Frieda Hempel Mar- garete Ober, Anna Case, Rita Fornia, Marie Mattfeld, Otto Gorits, Robert Leonhardt and Albert Reiss, Mr. Hertz conducting. ruso a8 Mario, r as the diva and Giullo Settl, the masterful chorus master of the Metropolitan Opera Houso, has been made a Cavalier by the King of Italy. Francesco Romel, of Mr. Gattl-C za's staff, has been A special gala performance at the | Metropolitan Opera House is an- nounced for a week from to-morrow night. What could be more significant of the approaching end of the season? Mme. Ottillie Metzger, the German contralto, who hag been on a two months’ tour of America, sails to- morrow to resume her engagement at the Hamburg opera. She is to return here next January. Another Victim of the Woodside Auto Accident Dies, | Otto H. Schneider, twenty-two, of No, 660 West One Hundred and Four- teenth street, a student in Stevens @\ institute, Hoboken, and a Phi Kappa See Them in ere’ Wir 1, Lewis Cigar Mf Nei Independ Lynn, Mass. fixtures, as a growi value to me. Order... Blue serges, costing $25,000 to $30,000 electri its manufacture. to Order . te. convenience, all the electric lig! predecescors, the display rooms where we use special lights to give the effect of broad daylight on the cloth itself, that instead of $30, $35, $40, $50 for a suit of clothes, my price for the coming week will be, suit or ‘ff topcoat to order, $9.75, and I guarantee to each customer that the union label will be found in the pocket of each garment, insuring healthful and sanitary conditions in Suit or Topcoat *9.75 4) 119 & 12 OPEN TILL 7 P. M. |\MITCHELL THE TAILOR fraternity member, died y: afternoon in the German H New York, from injuries early Saturday morning when , nineteen, cloak model, who d at No, 212 West Ninety-ninth was killed under the auto- Fox of .. Who was badly Injured in an auto- t there March 22, died ho Jamaica Hospital from She was thirty-two. 3 + THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1914 CHAUFFEUR KILLS MAN, ESCAPES PISTOL SHOTS, THEN GIVES HIMSELF UP Conscience of Man Who Ran|If cross, feverish, constipat- Over Pedestrian More Potent Than Bullets. When Alexander Burns, a taxicab chauffeur living at No. 89 Prospect | out of the bowels and you have a rralgned| playful in court there to-day charged with] will not manslaughter, an exciting story was|em) pty told of how he tried to escape after | tightly knocking down and running over an | stomac street, Newark, N. J., w: old man at Market and Alling streets. 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