New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-11
THE ANNUAL CASINO FIGHT.
LIVELY MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS
OPPONENTS OF THE ARoSsoNs ELECT ONE
D1RECToR-LAsT NIGHT OF COMIC OPERA
IN ITS OLD HOME.

OPPONENTS JE lie hhcHSO''~
DlEEcToR-LAsT NIGHT OF COMIC OPERA
IN ITS OLD HOME.
The annual disturbance at the Casino tooN pace
Yesterday afternoon. That Is TO say IL was s,'o
time Of the annual meeting OF The stocRhoiuo'''
action was rather more violent this sc-' ''""
usual As the Casino has been in operation Tor nearly
ten years and mas never paid any dividehu Ho"o Vi
the stockholders have been led to fear that 'here
WAS something wrong somewhere, and their uiscoh'
tent has been manifested from time to time NJ 'he
meetings for the choice OF directors OF the company.
But rs the Aronsons control majority OF the STOCK
protests have hitherto been OF little avail.
Yesterday the opposing minority was headed by A.
c. Lassen and by concentrating all its energy Oh one
simple object and casting all its votes for that OBJECT
it succeeding in gaining IL. Tile object WIS 'ie
election OF Mr. Lassen as member OF the oo'iu vi
directors To be sure the other eight directors are
Of the faction, but Mr.. LaSsen vows .' ne
will represent the minority OF the stockholders IN
the board that he will investigate the accounts
AMI the auditing which he believes Is irreguar'y u"s'
and Will look into the workings OF the management
II he can find anything to take Into the courts ne
means to take 1t there and generally TO look a'er
the interests OF the stockholders.
The meeting yesterday began at o'clock ana lhs'ed
til O'Clock. IT was held in IN rool'garueh' i"ere
we're n good many stockholders and Others present
all the voting even for the stockholders VINO were
absent being done by proxies. Early IN the pro
ccedlngs a resolution introduced by MI STEINER
whereby the present stockholders condemned an UT
ucle written in "The Financial Record" OF winch
Mr.. Lasscn is Editor, dastardy act ana MI ht
tack not only on the Aronsons but on the directors
and the stockholders In general. After this the III
terest icreascd and various vitupcrative epth's were
hurled around the roof with more or less "'"i"'e
a, I'D Lace telling effect,
But the genuine excitement began with IN" voting
for the Board OF Directors Mr.. Lassen chhi"hseu
most OF the Aronson's proxiess and the Aroh'o"7
challenged a few OF Mr.. Lassen's. Davh Le'eh
tritt was present as counsel for the AroilSon7 ana
Charles H. Blair for the opposition. and was agreed
that tbsv should be allowed 10 Inspect all the proxies
Nv and by one was found among Mr.. Lsssen's, wheh
we're dated 1890 and the Inspectors Of Electlon re
fused 10 receive It. This added 10 the geher1i en-
tbusiastio feeling OF the occasion. IL was inc c''
'engng OF nearly every proxy presented tha' h'aue
the meeting last til 1t was nearly time I" use INC
roof garden for its regular. Joyous purpose Every
reason that could possibly be found for challenging
A vote we're found and each had to be sepaatcH
passed upon.
II was all over. at last and the inspectors, LOUIS
stark Leon Jolly and W. S.'slnclar, found that The
following directors had been chosen by the numbers
OF votes appended 10 rhelr names r. Il. Stuyvesaht
oOsO; Rudolph Aronson 5,G1s Thomas Hamilton
go; A. II. De Frccc, 1881; Albert Aronson. 3.loo
w. J. finch, IT,. 900: II. s. Mendelson, 2.3ls; +. >
Kimball 2.5l1 A. {. IaSSen. 4,l30. The new'p"aru
OF directors met for organization at II O'Clock last
night.
In the course OF the stockholders meeting reso'
ton was passed commencing the change OF the house
from g. the only home OF comic opera In America -
according 10 the proud title 1t has 50 long held"
music hall Oh the European pattern.
"Thc Vice-AdmlruH sung al the Casino last
pig Ia II there under the
old order which now gives place 10 the new. Inc
Moorish walls and arches that have 50 long echoed
10 comic opera will hear is sounds no more. Ihere
was good audience present last night and II listened
with an enccrnoss and applaudcd with an enthusiasm
that did not all belong 10 the opera then presented
but We're largely tributes 10 the many others that nav"
been sung there and heard with some much pleasure
before In the last act Jefferson DE Angetor eN-
expressed the sentiments which he thought appropriate
10 the occasion I'm Il short speech.
As n souvenir u the Inst night Of comic opera,
little book was Owen AWAY confirming some Interesting
historical statements abOut the theatre. II WAS
opened on october 81. 1880. before II was reuly
finished. with "Thc Queens Lace Handkerchief
but II soon had 10 he closed again. because there was
no way 20 keep out the cold weather. After the gap
In the walls were stopped up the house was rropcn'd
and the opera went on. Thirty five operas have
been given. an average ~ less than four year.
There have been several long nun. and fcw of tho
have hhd less ilhi MY Performances earn
The greatest number ~ performance Of any one was
1856 of " Ermnle" Next To- this stands Nadly,'
with CSC and then Poor Jonathan with 2Or
some OF the other good records are "Tho Queen
Lace Handkerchief" I37 Prince Mctlu,alem," lo2
The Beggar student" 10: " Falka." no. "Nan0n,'
100; "Amorita." 1913: "The Yeomcn OF the Quad
100: "The Brgands.' l07 The Grand Duchess
las, and THE Tyrocan." 100. The smallest mum
Der given % one opera Is seven "a "Bice Ihylor,"
and the next tweny.One TO "I'ie sorc"rcr.'
II IS not too much 10 say that n majority Of the
comic opera singers now prominent IN THIS country
have appeared ~ some time or Other on IN" stag"
OF the casino, well Ms many who are now In other
countries few In the list. named ~ far as possible
In the order In which they appeared. are Miss Iliy
Post Miss Mathildc Cottrely, Mis- Lillian Russell
Disby Bell, Mrs. Laura Joyce Bell, Miss Mnden"
J. II. Ryley, Hubert Wuke. Miss Georeine Won
isabella UruqnhaTt Miss Vernona Jnrbcau. Miss sadie
Martinot Miss Pauline Hall. Miss Letltla Fritsch
Miss Marion ManOa. Miss Jennie Wenthersby. W. -.
Daboll Harry Pepper Max Freeman, Miss Sylvia Ger
rfsh Miss Lillian Grub. Mark Smith. CUnrtice Pounds,
Fred solomon, Mis- Fanny Rice. Mis- Anna O'Kccfc
Edwin stevens X. +. Carroll Miss Marie IInlon. Miss
Eva Davenport, Miss Grace Golden, Miss Camille
D'Arvillc, jefferson De Angels, Miss Louisa Beaud"t
Ferdinand -cluciz. Miss Pauline rAllcmand, Miss
Marie Tempest Miss Annie Meyers. Miss Laurn icllln.
Charles Ialssett william Pmette, Miss Lole Fuller
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