, 1881-02-06
THREE DOLLARS A TICKET.

| why Her majesty's Manager, Maple-
! son, Charges So Muci-The Gallant
Colonel RI.es and Explains in Ell
glish Indebted, and Untrnns1ated
Into American.
! Int<ruit1ced bv d Journal Reporter.
Col. Maplesou Is uore imposing than brown
! stone front on the avenue. He is blur and En-
| glish. and literally ''immcrse,' und eeats down
! upon you with the majestic force OF an ava
lanche. He is not exactly nirle feet high nor
four feet broad, but he looks Us It he WIS: bis
| voice SOUNDS as II no was; his chest expands as
If he was; and he wears big cape OIL bis over
coat that hangs about his broad shoulders with
an awful and colossal mngnthcence.
"Hello," he roared "how do2" as he flung
back his cape and tore open an envelope and
everybody in the Pacific Hotel rotunda looked
up and gazed upon the impressive grandeur or
the great manager of Her aiaiestys Opera Com
pany.
"rd like to have an interview with you, Colon
ell plped small Journal reporter, somewhere
down around the 1evfatban's knees.
His Prodigiousness gnzcd over his chest anu
all the way down the expanse Of bis vest front,
and, looking around on the uaggiug, at last
found the reporter, and said:
"Hah!. / cawn't do t, me boy. Busy, you
see? Got to go to the theatre this very hinstant
an tend to my European correspondence, you
know"
Notwithstanding this overwhelming refusal,
falling, as it were, like bowlder from some
lofty castled crag. the reporter threw out q
cable and getting up steam, towed the Colonel
with some effort into u cOruer. 49,
"Tnts great American public wants to know
you charge such furiously high prices 70 see
your show. Isn't s. about sl.5o too much?"
IVY, bless your SOUL me boy! Will gou lsten
to me now while tell you watts the reason
charge 81 HIS simply this: l ave TO pay
these beggariy singers twice Gs much IN thts
country as do IN the Hold World. and only
cburEe for admission about 'alr " at we charge
hover there!"
The Colonel ends each OF his sentences with
an exclamation point Or an interroKAuon marx
anti, continuing thus, with guIt Of Language
like thnt OF turrn-wagon going over field full
OF hummucks, he proceeded to forget all ABOUT
his European engagements and 9oud- -naturediy
pour his interviewer full Of the trials OF an
opera manager, relieving the harangne with oc-
casonal pts Of anecdote and humor. NOR ,~n,v h,ta
wy. my outlay is exactly .s3,6ao Il day, an Hfye
iii Iii could 20 do bit if iii I'D s5,oU 'ouse every
Is !! # r. asss Ike I'll I'd a"ss
What Is the reason you dop't stay in Europe,
then, Il you can make so much more money
Now, THAR you 60 aeainl VIZ. wat ienor-
ance. Master Reporter! Do,l't you know that
man cawn't live always on the same vexetable!
F. eawns pa;s ays my people sing all the tine in
in America rs in Europe? Isn't this about US
good g country as you can trout cut over
''To- be-sure + is, me boy; but"-and the
Colonel winked bis left eye and pushed back bis
a:iu punched his ponderous thumb tencased IN
blnck '.uudressed kid into the reporters most
sensitive rib" but hI5s IS the seaIthe hoeean. r.
between, and every mothers son OF EN- thinks
ee's gon to the bottom before ce gets ere HI
sawns ge5 sm to fn stir step hnnle5s eye
goes and makes is will and bids hall IS friends
fearful farewell before 'ee';l consent to come.
WIT VIZ. bits % only % Wonder M W ow Iii live ut M Ill! Look
at the people HI ave to tnke care of.-l6o OF
'em. incluiln' wives and children, for, you must
know. every one Of 'em brings is wife and hall
is babies an Ill 'ave to lo.k after EN- HI en-
gage these people by the year, you know. md
wen j; - get EN- IN III H. ave ~ MAKE en- pas; h sup
months. you know? Well, if don't want 10
support 'em ar tho seaside or ut the waterin'-
burg md Hi let Campanlni take few nights
iu Moscow and somebody else go somewhere
else Then can SIT PACK ! n nn smoke ss, ne h elgar
bring them to this country hits different thing
hay very different thing, Master. Hi get 'em
hover ere an' then IT bound by contract contra to ge1
the rascats. Hi cannot get 'em to cancel. wy,
l 'nd a fellow named Bultcrini onco hung about
My dear BGlterini, now III wish you'd cancel.
eancel.' sed 'ee. wei! taen, my dear Bpltsri-
Lun' on, an you know rye got to u4nke you pay,
so Hive decided to send you of to Rio 1nnerio;
an' 9nev say the yeiiow-fever IS verF bad THAR,
which takes about three mouths to nuke the
trip Well, do you know, Master Reporter, 'ee
toy d s yE ,n eed m sds ben thnk
He'd been exposed to yellow-fever, and he |
thought the salt sea hair would do 'im !
good for about three months. That's the wuy |
they stick you when you want to get rid Of 'em. !
an then, on the other hand, when they're good |
an yon want to keep 'e'n, then they act like !
along with 'em at ali. you know. Now. 'ere's |
Campaninl-hc wants more pay all the time, and !
ZEE as Eos and Est w TO trn
Two n,uids an II poodle
Colonel. ana he Violently exploded at At the inousas
II the poodle.
" Now. just to show you 'ow they act some
life pretty nenr worried out Of i'm By Nilsson |
,ue time-- She got 'uify ut I'm, an she'd huve /
" 5e In e5 m, for
THAT'S re rs, Wy shsy make lit lively for US man
.'Well, why don't you bring out some new
New stars! Bring 'em out1 Wy THAR are
lranatic woman this instant, but cawn't lind
Ter, you know. 'Aven't l brought out new
meg. and aveut't l used the dead ones Until
hey're no use any more? Now, there's
3rignoli; ee's IL good fellow, hut he clwn't sing
n time, and whenever ee comes onto the stage
&c walks like this Ind the Colonel Illustrated
he great tenors we!l-kuown gait with un
.lephMntine pirouette oil the marble tagging.
i tell you Hive uscd all the dcad meu and
brought out nearly ull the live ones, an now
> m ut my wits end to know sot to do for more.
There's CAmpanint. Hi heard OF I'm nine years
lgO wen e was sngn' lii obscure theatre
loWu III ltaiy. I got on the an started J
lfter I'm from Lun'on. Manager Joy 'ear1 OF
I'm about the sume time, an e started nf.er i'm
90, but Hi was the quickest traveller. HI got
here IN wus In is ds.ssin' room an nd signed !
he contract with 'tm when Joy arrived"
WE'LL now, since you've explained all these
hings. perhaps you'll tell why it is you man-
lgers seldom bring out any new opcrasY"
-" Tsstl't us, me boy; hits the public I've got
tXty operas Hid like to put 0u the boArii, but !
he public won't nye 'em. The public Is conttn- |
faliy calm fur new operas and wen we give
enl to ern, bless your soul, they won't come to
ear 'em-nn' it's great expense to get up an
pera~ you know. Now, it costs me $.,JU to
mount "Lohengrfn.' and there's Aida I've got
. carry the trnppiugs tor that opcr., wherever I
o, and the expense IS enormous. Down In St.
.oufs, where the thcntre Is st1lall, two years ago
he procession 'ad to form IN fh: saloon across
he nley and march in onto the Stage an then |
ack again. an one night the property -lnau !
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