Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-04
one cent to meet the losses Of an unfavOrablo

-one cent to meet the losses Of an unfavOrable
season. .-. --.-r..r
Now, though there Is nothing sven in all
these urRencies TO justify single lie or fraud,
there Is much 10 sharpen mans wits to So
cure the sale Of his goods-much to educate
him In all manner Of expedience to baiiie the
inquiries Of customers who would be Of
Tended if they could discover that he ever
charged them the profit without which he
could never meet his expenses. And the
jobber's problem Is complicated by the folly,
universally prevalent among buyers, of eI-
pecting some Partially OF popularity of favor
over their neigbbors who are Just as good as
themselves. Every dry.goods jobber knows
that his customers foolish hope and expecta-
tion often demand three sbsurdities Of him
first, the assurance that ne has the advantage
over all other jobbers in better stock Of
goods, better bought; secondly, that he has
peculiar friendship for himself; aud thirdly
that though of other men he must needs get
profit, in his special instance he shall ask
little or none, and that, such is his regard
for him, it is a matter of no moment whether
he live In Lowell OF Louisiana, in New Bed
ford OF Nebraska, or whether he pay New
England bank notes within thirty days, or
Wild cat money and wild lands which may
be converted into cash, with more or less eX-
pense and loss, somewhere between nine
months and nine and-twenty years.
Enormous Expense Of the Opera In Eu-
rope - The Cost of the Italian Lyric
Drama in Paris.
A Paris correspondent writes in recent
letter:
Perhaps you imagine the Great Republic
to be the only country in the world where
Italian singers demand exorbitant salaries,
and receive them, too, when the impressario
is fortunate enough to escape bankruptcy.
1t is true that enormous sums of money are
squandered in our country, upon artists who
would barely be able to earn their salt, in
Europe; but no such amounts are expended
on Italian Opera in the United States, as in
either Paris, London, or st. Petersburg. The
American prices of admission will not admit
Of great outlay, ON the part of the director,
unless he is prepared for immediate ruin
The entree of the New York Academy ol
Music, during the Opera season, is, believe,
seats, while, if am not mistaken. the price
OF tickets in the upper tiers is fifty cents,
oaly.
AT the Paris Itdliens, seat in the first tieI
and the orchestra stalls costs So 40; in the
second tier, $2; third tier, 81 60, and even
in the pGTteTre, equivalent to the pit in En-
glish and American theaters, the spectator
pays 81 for his place. As examples of sala.
ries, the three pTimd donndS of the Paris Ital.
ian Opera, Mesdames Pence, Alboni and
Marie Battu, receive an aggregate of 159,00(
francs, for the season. Mario is paid S,O0C
francs month, Gardoni Il, 900 francs, Ron.
conf $4,000 francs, Grsziani $4,000 francs
and Tamberlik, during his special engage.
ment of the last two seasons, was paid $500
fire hundred dOllars-a night! This is ai
you will readily admit singing to some pur-
pose.
Nor do the pecuniary responsibilities oi
the Partisan director stop with the salaries
of the artists and the ordinary expenses oi
rent, gas, costumes, scenery, &c. In Amer
lea, the works of the faEorite living com
posers, Rossini, Verdi, Meyerbeer, Halevy
&c, are performed, without thought o
indemnifying the author of the Hdrbor
IToVdtore, the Hugnenots, or the Jet0ess. Ii
Paris, the law obliges the manager to pay
the composer fifteen per cent of the gros
receipts for each representation, and clever
per cent. more goes to the hospital fund.
1t is true that the Itdliens, as an imperia
theater, receives an annual bonus of 500 00t
from the Government; but this sum is fa
from covering those expenses which Amer
ican impressGyii escape altogether. Yet de-
spite the enormous outlay incurred by the
mar cement of the Italisn Opera in the
French Capital, the establishment pays. ThC
profits are not large, certainly; and last yea
NJ. CalZado's margin barely exceeded 500
francs; but it is still no small triumph tt
conduct the first lyric theater in the worlC
through a six months season, with bal
ance Of 1000 in the directors favor at tn
end.