The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-15
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@hio' marietta al Do. who has not boen lot
gotten In New York, has come to the front once
more and this timo 1t Is not as the heroine OF an
International scandal or as the victim of q
MANAGERS disploasure that she steps out into
the light and modestly requests the public to
look at hor. Mile. di Dio, after having been
Missed by Oscar Hammcrstcin on the stage OF
hisSoid music hall on Thirty-'ourth street, was
married to a young New Yorker and retired
with him to Russia, where, according to tho
stories that she told here, there was a particu-
larry urgent demand for a sight of her beautiful
race. She was indeed a beautiful young woman.
ana her New York friends will probably be glad
70 learn that after an absence of three years
covered that she has an aunt living in Mexico
VINO has promised 70 leave her a fortune OF "sev.
ern mnlions." Whether these millions are
dollars, francs, marks, or rubles, the German
newspapers do not say, but. Mile. di dos ~
lure seems fairly vol settled. Her young huS;
pand went to Paris q year ago. and his frlends
there mover saw the singer in bis company;
Later he returned to this country, and is said 70
architecture which he began in Pnris. Mile.
az Dio has, during q career of u few years CON
triyod to become the heroine of several inter
esting episodes. Tho first OF these involved the
German Ambassador to Austria, who found
himself with a duel on his hands merely be- be.
supposed to have borrowed the singers Jewels
Vacaresco family, and the son Of the Rou;;
manian Ambassador at Vienna. Tho visit of
building of the Olympia. She excited Oscar
Hammerstcin to such an extent that he Missed
her from q box. ana at the quarrel that ensued
between him and his partners Mr.. Hanmcrstein
withdrew and started to build the theatre which
now stands unused, Her marriage to g young
Of her career in In New York. ~
The change in college life since Columbia
University moved uptown has been generally
noted. but the unusual proceedings in the spe-
cial elections of the freshman class have upset
all previous theories as to class politics at Co
lumbia. Tho unsophisticated freshmen are
rarely expert in college politics, and they were
not prepared for the scheme which was sudden
ly sprung on them by an ambitious member of
the class who had n sophomore for q brother.
This young man wanted to BIO President Of tho
reshman class, and with the weight of ono
terms experience on his shoulders, the older
brother volunteered to arrange the campaign
man was Inherited from his father. who has
been from time to time a prominent office hold
er in New York; The campaign opened, on the
very first day that the students Assembled. To
their establishment printed ballots were dis
tributed bearing the name of this. young man
the canvass was untiagEingly kept up, and the
result was the triumph of the ambitious fresh
n1rR oyer 0f .i his yo anpreP Ps was a 6nit Wbsn p 3Se n mS,
OF this remarkable campaign became known to
the graduates and they began to express their
surprise over the proceedings that tho fresh
man realized that they had not conduct ed their
class affairs at oil in the usual way. but had
Now the class has built up a machine as thor
ough as any that was ever organized for moro
serious business than the regulation of under
graduate affairs. Such q condition Is very IN
usual In Columbia, whore class politics play but
q small part In the affairs of the institution.
Tho difficulty of combining conversation
and. music has presented itself in q new form,
and some of the persons who attend the per-
formances OF the Society of Musical Arts are
wondering how matters can be arranged so as
to make it possible for the music to be heard
and yet allow the members'of society to enjoy the
themselves. Evidently there are not a great
many persons interested in the suppression of
the talk, and beyond the disappointment Of the
young conductors who direct the performance
of their works, no evident harm Is done. After
one composer had directed a Chinese suite at the
first concert, one woman in q box looked Ian
guidly at her. programme when the entertain
ment came to an end and remarked: "Too bad
it was that they left out that Chinese over
ture. I was very anxious to hear it." Tho
band had played the Chinese overture, as hard
much ms N c eVoa f S%' the lbne d GGartosati entb nad peeh T rSo
audience talked right straight through it. At
the meeting on Monday, night another com
had evidently made up his mind to keep the
audience still. He waited for quiet, and not
until the talking had subsidized did he allow
the musicians. to begin. Conversation Ian
guished for q few moments when 1t was dis
covered that the music had ceased, and as there
was no interest in talking under those circum.
stances, the large ballroom suddenly: became
quiet. Encouraged by his success. the con-
ductor began with great enthusiasm. but with
the opening bars OF the overture the buzz of talk
luckily too much engaged to hear it. The
operas have 30 far been listened to with much
greater attention., and, indeed, the new society,
in producing one:act operas, seems to have dis.
covered the field in which IL is likely to meet
with most success. Such interesting works as
Massenet's LEI ortraitde Manon" .would,never
in all likelihood be sung anywhere else, and
the performance of these ~justines the meetings
of the new society If nothing else did. Mas.
cagni's "Zanetto" is to be sung later, and one
or two other interesting, operas are on the pro-
gramme for the succeeding meetings. In the
work of introducing. these novelties to New
York there is no rival to the society. which. in
view Of the fact that the operas are given only
If the members want to talk during tho or.
chestral numbers. and feel like insisting on the
right, they are privileged to do so, as they paid
their subscriptions in order to be amused. and
they have the right to decide what amuses
them.