The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-26
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lho question OF receiving jewish children AZ
private schools has come up before In New York.
~ was only two years ago that the principal of
one uptown school notified her clients that in
future no children Of jewish families would
be received as pupils. Her explanation was
that their presence injured her school,, and that
Tho number OF her pupils had diminished greatly
by that cause. After q school had been given
over to jewish children, she said, It became
unpopular, even with them, as they sought
always to attend the establishments popular
With Christians. In some form or other the
question frequently roappears. 1t first became
OF the fashionable schools there was some com.
paint about the increase in the number OF
principal that she might properly limit the
number OF these pupils, but she firmly Refused
r rSw SU sea; on be the s S;GGtSnd It that %s none sS Of the hTs R |sTpes
SO much Interested in their work. This an
those to. whom objection was made loft entirely.
Nowadays, the, school has practically disap.
which proves that so soon as a school Is given
over wholly to Jewish pupils 1t ceases 10 re.
main fashionable among them. Schools in
almost as regularly as the photographer do.
some retain their vogue for years. One of the
contain at one time nearly twenty girls who
havo, SINCE been very conspicuous In tho city'B
sSe'G most sfe cxo That sc dSss n q. s Sns ti a.S,1 eb sSd
its gradual decline was attributed to nothing
else than a change In fashion. Others have hGd
their decline In popularity. There was scarcely
a time in the history Of any Of these schools
included in their classes.
Pol Plancon. Eugene Ysaye, Jean Gerardy
and Raoul Pugno are on the programme for the
concert at the Metropolitan Opera House on
Sunday night, and their manager, who has the
reputation Of being energetic, has never encoun-
tered any job SO difficult to manage as :the ar.
rangement of that programme. There have
been prolonged and excited sessions In his Office
every day for the past week. and the only por-
son concerned who has preserved his composure
is Anton Seidl.. who is the final Judge of the
matter. Already half n dozen programmes
have been ARRANGED and hysterical sessions In
have come one by one under MIR. Seidl's eye he
has firmly and with his usual lack of demon
When to the satisfaction of the four artists a
programme had been arranged by which NJ.
p PISnsf4 avo MoSIe eiTca a m to Psap r. Ssn %ad @oa ah9
be heard again In his most popular number. NJ.
Gerardy would have the surest opportunity to
renew his old friendship with the New York pub
lie and NJ. Pugno would BIO able to overcome the
sunday night indifference to pianists, it has
been found that unless the audience was to be
kept until 4 o'clock in the morning, 1t would be
necessary to be- begin at i the III time people were going
ever e% Haut Since that II eS first dra te the no Quartet snGs have
been trying to shorten the programme without
sacrificing any of their Individual numbers. 1t
that has made the managers task the most
difficult that he ever undertook.
Mrs. Potter's career on the stage has pos
sessed some notable features, but none of them
has been more striking than the splendid con-
sistency with which she manages to have q
row with all the persons with whom she is
associated in business. Just when she seems on
the point of arriving at some established place
in her profession, the public hear that she has
been rowing with her managers, and she fol-
lows this by q tour in Japan, South Africa,
or some other remote land. A recent interview
in which she said that unfavorable criticism
never affected her because she never read it, is
very much at variance with some of her utter.
ances while in this country last. Then she
was talking to a young woman who had gone
oil the stage only a short time before, and met
with no particular success, Never mind how
unfavorabiy they write about you, my dear
girl" Mrs. Potter said to her, 'as long as they
write something. | never minded an unkind
SO well pleased that they had said something.
Anything is better than being ignored" Mrs.
men in the United States. England, and Aus
tralia. and one evidence Of the futility Of mo-
.oriGttS is afforded To- b by I'll. that to circumstance iEa st III There ere
s~cription which her career has given rise to.
but the fact remains that the public Of her own
country hh5 pSlbibtchbiy Ciuscu w luho thht
degree of interest in her necessary to inspire it
to go to q theatre in which she was appearing.
In view of the difficulties which have attended
her travels In various countries, it will be salts
factory to many of her friends here to learn
that Mrs. Potter says she has made enough out
! of the profession to live comfortably without
continuous work. She has long boon a pictur-
esque II not a very popular figure on the stage.
and the most comforting thing next TO hearing
Mrs. Potter say that she is independent now
would be to know 1t.
One of the most dispiriting sights on upper
Broadway at night is the interior of the old
Delmonico restaurant. which always used to
be about IL O'Clock at the brightest and live
lest. Now the passers-by who look into :the
cafe witness a dismal sight. The blinds are
opened and the lights are burning. but scarcely
high enough to illuminate tho room. The
tables are placed close together, and the chair:
stretch in empty rows around the floor. The
restaurant is closed now at an early hour. and
the guests who linger late at dinner are the
last to be seen there. Then the place is re
duced to Its depressing condition of desola
ton. There are already a number of hotels
in that region whose dark windows have
changed the old aspect of the locality. But none
of these contributes to the depression of tnt
scene so eloquently as the windows Of the OLD
Delmonico cafe.