The evening world., 1894-09-03
GRAND AND COMIC OPERA WAR
Rival Rebearsals Stir Up Strife
on Twenty-eighth 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 a pitched battle
were imminent. Some months ago, the
manager of the Tavary Grand English
Opera Company rented the top floor of
~ West Twenty-eighth street for re-
hearsals. and took a lease thereof. In
the immediate vicinity OF No. 40 are
half n dozen halls. which are also used
for rehearslng 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 It,
What the friends heard was Martha
howled from an adjoining window Then
work with "Nanon." but when Garlic
ton discovered that this opera was
drowned In the vocal pyrotechnics of
THE Flying Dutchman" he beat hasty
"Mikado" in this hail. but It was
swamped in the melancholy beauty OF
"Cavalleria." Then came some dramatic
companies. but they were all driven out
the most persistent Of the lot. Guile is
a member OF this organization, and when
he started in. the climax came. The
ants grew irate. The Tavary people
were looked upon with loathing Some
body brought in the Metropolitan Opera,
House chorus one afternoon to try and
down the, ,Tayaryites, It was impossi.
BILE. Finally, Manager Pratt was asked
II he would not remove his chorus. but
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, Il. Il. Rice has a new find
In Edward a, do Quinn, who has been added
was rescued from a vaudeville company
in Hoboken, and gets tremendous APP
plause for the melody that he extracts
from the much-despised mouth organ.
He Is seventeen years old. 30 that Mr..
Gerry need not lose any sleep over his
case.
TEDDY" Solomon, who was once owned
es husband by Lillian Russell, has evil
IDENTIFY lost all hope since Mr.. Abbey
refused to ha"e him as musical director
OF Lillian's company. He is going forth,
1t Is said, into the cold, cruel English
provinces as an entertainer OF the
Grossmith order. Isn't that sad?
Even the Harlem theatres have been
in demand by dramatic companies for
rehearsals. Marie Wainwright has been
drilling her troops at the Columbus. and
forces al the Harlem Opera House. The
No. 2 Bostonians were forced into a
small hall There v are about md st thirty
dozen companies rehearsing. 1t is hard
work to place them all, and many q
feud Is caused by a managers inability
to oblige.
a few weeks ago he erected monu
ment over the grave Of his famous
/ father. Edward Askew ,Sothern, who
died in 1881. 1t was in the shape Of
Latin cross. eight feet high by three feet
wide. and is a replica of the monument
marking Adelaid, Nelson's resting ace
Mr.. Sothern had the old monument re-
moved to the eastern end of the grave
and not from young Sothern himself
Many actors would have given this news
to their agents to spread through the
land. Sothern. 1t is refreshing to note
Is not of the same calibre In this re-
spect.
/ Tons OF artists are arriving, by the, in
coming steamships for the big variety
street The Fletchers came Saturday
by the Paris: Marietta Dido was OF
the Bretagne;, the Haytors and The
Phantos are due on the Aurania; the
Marinetti brothers on the Persia. anc
Fougere on La Champagne. They are
all TO appear Sept. 10 A Chicago critic
sneeringly alludes to New York as Kos
ter-and Bialville. but. perhaps, after all
4 10 n grimes
This is vouched for-never mind b,
whom. Miss Helen Dauvray is rehears
ing at the Columbia Theatre, Brooklyn
She lives on Amsterdam avenue, In thu
Harlem direction, 50, In order to be OF
endon Hotel. Brooklyn. not far from thu
Columbia. There she studied her part
very long one. One morning an Irisi
door. heard these words: II love you 81
wildly. If you will not fly with me. a
least, we can die together" There:
going to be a suicide upstairs" quotl
the chambermaid to the hotel clerk thir
ty seconds later. But the clerk wa:
wiser and understood the situation
Miss Dauvray was much amused.
The pretty Indian scenic surrounding:
of The Victoria Cross" at the Lyceun
has never before done anything in New
| York. His predecessor, Mr.. Unit, has
Joined Charles Frohman's forces. and IL
at work upon THE Bauble Shop" anc
1.-The Masqueraders."
John Glendinning sailed for New YOrl
Saturday on North GermanLloyd
steamer. lie is constant to America
He intended joining Rose Coghlan''
company, but they were unable TO come
to terms. "Iondon Is empty at this
moment" writes MIR. Glendinnng, EEK
cept for the country visitors, who liter
open"
The venom, hatred and malice dis
played in a letter received by Manager
Proctor shocked that worthy gentle