The evening world., 1894-09-03
GRAND AND COMIC OPERA WAR
Rival Rebearsals Stir Up Strife
on Twenty-eight Street.
Rice's Latest Discovery-Other Stage
News and Gossip.

There has been bitter war between
grand opera and comic opera on West
Twenty-eighth street. and 1t seemed at
one time as though pitched battle
were imminent. Some months ago, the
manager OF the Tavary Grand English
Opera Company rented the top floor Of
40 West Twenty eighth street for re-
hearsals, and took lease thereof. In
the immediate vicinity Of No. 40 are
half a dozen halls. which are also used
for rehearsing purposes, and this sea-
son the demand for them has been very
lively. Two weeks ago the Grau Opera
Company was called for the rehearsal
OF "Amorita." The chorus hod no SOON
er started than the musical director
found that he was getting all tangled
up with "Falstaff." the rehearsals of
which could be distinctly heard. A day
or two later THE Fencing Master"
chorus met at this hall, and Manager
Whitney invited some friends to hear II.
What the friends heard was Martha"
howled from an adjoining window Then
the Carleton Opera Company set TO
work with "Nanon" but when Garlic
ton discovered that this opera was
drowned in the vocal pyrotechnics of
THE Flying Dutchman" he beat hasty
retreat Manager DUFF tried to hear his
swamped in the melancholy beauty of
"Cavalleria." Then came some dramatic
companies. but they were all driven out
by the Tavary people. the loudest and
member Of this organization, and when
| he started in. the climax came. The
landlords began to COMPLAIN; the ten
Sn ars irats The TaTary people
body brought In the Metropolitan Opera
House chorus one afternoon to try and
down the Tavaryites. 1t was impossi-
BILE, Finally. Manager Pratt was asked
this he declined to do. Said Jack Hirsh.
not expire until next week. We shall
remain, come what may"
The prolific discoverer of undevel-
oped talent. E. E. Rice, has a new find
in Edward Ed ;ao Quinn. who has been added
was rescued from vaudeville company
plause for the melody that he extracts
| from the much-despised mouth organ.
He Is seventeen years old, so that Mr..
Gerry need not lose any sleep over his
case.
When Z. H. Sothern was in England
a few weeks ago he erected monu-
ment over the grave Of his famous
died in 1881. It was in the shape Of a
Latin cross, eight feet high by three feet
wide. and is a replica of the monument
marking Adelaide Nelson's resting place
Mr.. Sothern had the old monument re-
This information comes from England
and not from young Sothern himself
Many actors would have given this news
to their agents, to spread through the
land Sothern. IL Is refreshing to note
is not Of the same calibre in this re-
spect.
| Tons OF artists are arriving by the in
oP Vest e the ysr
street. The Fletchers came Saturda!
py the Paris; Marietta Di-Dio was OF
the Bretagne;. the Haytors and tn
Fougere on La Champagne. They ar,
all to appear Sept ~ A Chicago critic
sneeringly alludes to New York as Kos
ter-and- Bialville. but, perhaps, after all
It is a case of sour gripes.
The pretty Indian scenic surrounding,
of 1.-The Victoria Cross" at the Lyceun
are the work of William Hawley, WHIT
has never before done anything in New
Joined Charles Frohman's forces, and II
at work upon The. Bauble Shop" ant
1.-The Masqueraders."
John Glendinnlng sailed for New Yorl
Saturday on e North German-Lloyt
He Intended joining Rose Coghlan
company but they were unable to conn
to terms. London Is empty at thi
moment" writes Mr.. Glendinning, Tex
cept for the country visitors, who liter
ally flock to those theatres that ar
. omen"