The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-21
the country Theodore Thomas had Sc
himself up as sort Of musical dictator

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from whose ipsi dirI there was no appeal
Doctor Damrosch sought to counterac
Mr. Thomas influence in musical circles
and he inaugurated one of The mos
magnificent series of concerts at th'
Seventh regiment armory, there had eve
been heard in the country. The resul
was not only an artistic, but hnancla
success, and Doctor Damrosch retained
his influence up to the day of his death
having founded frss-class German opert
in this city where it promises to remain
When Doctor Damrosch died the bator
fell from his lifeless hand into that o.
his son Walter, and the German operi
still continues-Wagner's Meistersinger
which was produced on Monday night
being the crowning glory of the operate
season. There was great gathering of
fashionable and financial magnates; the
handsome face of our ex.President being
seen in the boxes, and everybody was
asking why On earth he hasn't got mar
ried.
But you must not imagine that all the
world and his wife were at the German
opera at the Metropolitan Opera House
by no manner of means. On the same
night Theodore Thomas produced Goetz
comic opera, Tanning Shrew, at the
Academy in English. We. have here a
musical enthusiast, Mrs. II. B. Thurber,
wife of wholesale groceryman and a
lady distinguished in fashionable aud
musical circles. The dream of her life
has been frst-class English Opera, which
would erable the American public which
loved music to dispense with the service
of the hordes of vagabond foreigners
who have fairly devoured our substance
in the past. Theodore Thomas and the
English opera scored a great success
though opera is even in English d costly
entertainment, anything like fair seat
costing two dollars and a half, and choice
seats were five and ten dollars, so that
Notwithstanding the discovery that we
have native talent in abundance, we are
not yet prepared to offer opera at fifty
cents aud dollar.
l see O'Donovan Rosa is an applicant
for place in the Brooklyn navy yard.
President Cleveland had better keep an
eye on the Irish Boauerges or he may be
sfther blowin' up our entire navee wild
dynamite.
A remarkable and sensational feature
of the week has been the Dixie ball at
the Metropolitan Opera. An actor
named Dixie has been amusing the
patrons of little theatre on Broadway,
called the Bijou Opera House for year
and half in burlesque called Adouis.
Mr.. Dixie and his manager Mr. Rice,
have made handsome fortune by the
venture, but in consideration of his dis
tipguished services and the obligations
under which he had laid the public,
Rice got up ball at the Metropolitan
Opera House. Tickets, $500. Boxes
fifty. OF course there was jam; all
the fast people in town were there, and
hundreds went just to touch elbows with
theatrical people off the stage. Finan.
cially the thing was managed so that
Dixie and his manager got a pocket full
of rocks.
At the sale Of pews in Beecher's
church this week the premiums fell of
from s5S,3O4 in 1875 to s15,4OO in 1885
Stocks are again ON the ragged edge,
one day strong and the next day weak
The weather which week ago was
like pleasant spring is now wintry
enough to suit an esquimaux dog or a
polar bear.
Very truly yours,
BRoADBRIM.