The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-21
TIE NEW YORK oPERA77C STRIKE
The Chorus Singers in RevoIt-soouss
at their FavOrito Rostaurant-A Babel
OF Many Broken TOnRuOs-CavatInas,
sconaB, AriettRs, and ROndOa,

at their FRvOrite Roatnurnnt-A BnboI
OF Many Broken TOnguOs-CavatInas,
scenas, AriettRs, and ROndOs,
The chorus at the Academy of Music are on n
strike Yes, Tor forty-eight hours they have
struck, and to-day they say they are determined
retzek expires, not for their altars and their
nres, but for bread and cheese AS the case at
Sps PIeSsenI stands the prospect for future opera
calclrant chorus singers come to pacific ar
rangement. The chorus singers, to the number
OF nity nave beer employed since the be-
ginning OF the opera season at the rate OF
oltwenty dollars week for i've performances, ,
including attendance at mid day rehearsals for
which it has not been the custom OF opera
managers to pay as rehearsals We're always
details of the strike which were given in yes
terday mornings World exclusively II is only
necessary to refer to. A few minutes before the
time assigned on the bills for the performance
OF the opera OF Romeo and GtuIetta to begin,
the chorus singers assembled in solemn con-
clave behind the mystic curtain of the Academy
and there and then resolved, with many high
observations, that they would not join in the
gladsome chants assigned them, unless that
tmpressario Max in vulgar terms came down
and paid TO them sums of filthy lucre base
greenbacks to the tune of fifteen dollars per
human being of the chorus, male and female.
And with many high oaths and with solemn
purpose engraved on the salients of each Ita-
lan, French, German, and Spanish face, did
this band pledge themselves to be true bold
and firm until death do them part" or Max
MaretZek gave in and ack nOWledged the corn.
in the auditorium for some signs OF life from the
dumb orchestra. But no sign came, for Maret-
zek, fearing that If he gave way to the demand
of the chorus singers for services performed at
Iehearsals he would then have to comply with
the prospective demand of the orchestra, who
were waiting in the leash, to strike like the
chorus singers, for the green graves of their
sires, He therefore refused to comply with the
demand most vigorously, but offered as a sooth-
ing compromise, to each and every chorus
singer, the sum of five dollars in the current
greenbacks of the season, for the labor at re-
hearsals performed by them. Then did the cho-
rus singers threaten the lives of any choristers
who, untrue to their most solemn league and
III.
dollars from Maretzek. The audience were
turned away, their money being refunded, and
"Romeo' failed to carol his passionate feelings
to Miss Hauck, the Juliet" of the evening"
Last night the opera OF the Favortta was an
language of the venerated P. r., did not come
to time. The Three Men Of GrutLi, at the Bowery
they were. Nearly all the seats for Monday,
Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings had been
funded, there was at once a net loss of six thou
sand dollars to Mr.. Maretzek, who has labered
opera, with costly scenery and appointments
besides the money which was to have been re-
ceived additionally for tickets and reserved
seats. And thus stands the case at present: No
Chorus, no Opera.
Last evening our reporter visited q saloon
where these chorus singers do most congregate
"a wine shop and restaurant in the Third ave-
nue., near the Academy.no natter where. It
sionate love of dirt and grease: common to some
persons who hail from that land Of song and
maccaroni, the saloon was In an admirable state
of confusion and oleaginous disorder. There
were portraits of thevarious operate celebrities
hanging around the walls, Alboni, Grisi Mlolan-
Carvalho, Roger, the great tenor, Rubini, Karl
Formes. Jenny Lind, MaZzoleni, Piccolomint,
and many more birds of song. A few tables with
dirty table cloths. around which squads of the
chorus singers sat, some eating and drinking,
eating Tachryma Christi and Vino We Vermouth
at seventy-nve cents toa dollar bottle. others
playing cards and dominoes, with gutteral ex-
CARNATIONS in q foreign tongue, and several
others regaling themselves and their listeners
with snsfches of operatic melodies. The keeper
digneng6d
TO his customers. as the orders came. eatables
ana dr1nkaoles WIN Gnsto and and alaerlty, and
Four men sat around a deal table, on which
was placed huge turkey boiled In OIL, nanked s,e
stance foated square cut particles OF coarse
bread; VI Inese I09p one on or Two t were
taches, black eyes, tawny skin, and seedy
clothes, well creased according to the Italian
standard. The third was Frenchman bald
headed, his forehead extending from the eye
brows to the rear portion of his skull, between
singer, originally from the pleasant little
town of HockSmOckunotert.tyU am Rhine. These
four men comprised the Party of Action of the
chorus singers. AS our reporter entered, the
festive German, who had the air and manner
his fingers gazing at it with profound emotion,
and after few momen contemplating IL, puts
The song Of esa n Toe 6
which the Party of Action joined as they came
to the chorus.
Reformed Rough with wine-glass upliftedG-
''Never mind Maretzek, let a kleine Bit
Come on! inle5weave for me wreath with grapes
Girded with jugs and goblets,
shall ascend to the summit OF Helicon.
Long live Bacchus. the King OF Gods!
Hymns and incense to fair Venus
Let him who fences. sing OF shields and curlaSSes
And of the ire and havoc of the warliKe God.
fight but amongst the beauties, and surrounded by
choose to fall drunk, but not dead
When hold the jug In my hand, 1 cannot envy the
seeptre of a king.
Some think 81 The i5a thirst 6o for gGd 81 Is holy
Parry Of Action. (ChoTtis) oh nevare mind,
Mare
Doodle tTuble, Jordan am ze
Hard road TO trav- R-a-a-l"
AL, (CnOTtls) Venus and Bacchus are our gods.
We gather the bloom OF life,
Hymns and perfume to Venus and Bacchus
Long live the FRlerniAn wine Love forever!
"I tell ye, boys" said the reformed rough,
1--WE kR-a-nt stand this theory Of te dollars
week. IL the American pee pie won't stand
by the Eytalian Operer why d-o-o-n't they
s'a-ay so and Civ itup? That's wat want ter
know?"
differant-there was ze enzhoymong and ware
lettle work. But re gr-r. a-a-nde Amerakaun
people will not pay re price of re opera like ze
do in belle France or lie grande Vile dAu-
triohe. Helasl Ze Grand Duchesse"
(Chorus in the back part OF the room, the singers
coming forward joyously with greasy cards In ther
Au diable la consigne!
Et viVe pamOur
Tant pisi en- ce jour
BTavons la cOnslgne.
Obelssons u Pamour
Big Eytoalan sings (his voice resounding through
out the lofty, bat greasy apartment). Where can
grand explanation with Maretzeck an hour ago
(sipRs. bis eyes filled with tears, wine cup, covered
with vine leaves, upheldl-