The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-19
THE MAY FESTIVAL.
A Pronunoiamento Full of Interest to AL
Our People.

The following circular has been issued by
the Musical Festival Association:
CINCINNATI MUSICAL FESTIVAL, 1880.
Price of Admission Tickets and Time of Sale
Rules Governing the Sale of Season Tickets by
Auction Adopted by Festival Board-Tlme of
Sale.
Season tickets, including reserved seats
for all the evening and aftern on concerts,
will be sold at $40 each. The choice of
seats for the season tickets will be sold at
auction on April 10th and Goth, commenc-
ing at 10 O'Clock a. m., in College Hall.
AT the auction sale, bids will be at so
much premium for each seat over the price
of the season ticket.
The successful bidder can take any mum.
Der Of seats up to ten paying $40 and the
amount Of premium he has bid for every
seat he takes.
In case Of dispute between bidders as to
who has secured the choice, the auctioneer
shall at once put the choice up again at
public competition.
Any one can bid as often as he wishes,
but he can take only ten seats on each bid
| After one choice is sold, the next choice
shall be competed for. ---
| Each buyer. as his name is announced,
shall declare the number of seats he takes
at the premium, and shall Immediately 60
to the platform. pay to the Treasurer the
price and premium Of such number of seats
and receive from him a corresponding Or
der, and shall at once present such order to
the ticket-seller, select and receive his
tickets.
Bidders are requested to be as prompt as
possible, especially in selecting seats.
The Treasurer may require, where par
ties unknown to him present checks, that
the delivery of tickets shall await the
cashing of the check.
The Treasurer's order on the ticket-sel-
Ter snail be delivered to him when the
tickets are handed over to the pur-
| chaser. ia
| Bidders not known to the auctioneer
shall upon request announce their names.
No seats whatever will be marked off
or reserved before the sale begins. The
buyer of the first choice will have the
| whole house to select from.
On April 2lst, the sale of season tickets
will be opened in the ordinary way, only
those tickets which have been sold at auc-
tion will be marked from the plat, and
| this sale will continue until May LIST, after
which no more season tickets can be pur-
chased The sale Of reserved seats for sim
gle concerts will begin on May 3D., and
continue until the Festival.
Persons residing at distance from Gin
cinnati can obtain tickets by indicating the
seats they desire, and inclosing necessary
funds to Carl A. G. Adae Secretary.
single reserved seats ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 90
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The days of the Festival are Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, May
18th, 10Th, 10th, 2lst.
In the place of Messrs. Nichols, Burnet
and Neff, who have resigned, Messrs. w.
N. Hobart and Robert Mitchell were elect
ed Directors OF the Musical Festival Board,
leaving one vacancy still to be filled. Mr..
Edmund H. Pendleton has been elected
President and Mr.. A. H. Hinkle, Vice
President, Of the Board, which now consists
of the following gentlemen:
EDMUND H. PENDLEToN, President.
A. II. HINKLE, Vice President.
CARL A. G. ADAE, Secretary.
CHARLES P. TAFT, Treasurer,
H. WILSON Brown.
LAWRENCE MAXWELL, JR.
w. N. HoBART.
ROBERT MITCHELL.