The age-herald., 1900-11-24
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

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 in thy business, with gains and losses; keep
 thy health in order.'
 '.The young may court"
 "A child born on this date will be we'll
 conducted and energetie; it should keep | in employ if it go into business for itself
 it will lose heavily"
 Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for Sun
 day, November 25 1900:
 Doubtful"
 "Thy birthday is a quiet one, and thy
 affairs will proceed as usual, but beware
 of quarreling and of giving offense, and | keep thy temper cool"
 "A child born on this day will have an
 uncertain career for much will depend up-
 on the hour of its birth"
 "Very nearly all the people of the Eng lish-speaking world will feel some senti- | ment of personal loss through the death of | Sir Arthur Sullivan, for his music has | gladdened all hearts, has lifted the heavier | burden of millions of sorrows" said man
 who has loved the play for many year and in many land. "There was about his music something which pleased the null titude as the work of no other composer has done, for it was light and jolly flip pant and possibly nonsensical at times, and
 was therefore universally pleasing, since a little nonsense now and then is relished by even the wisest men He robbed w. s. Gilbert's clever satire of its coarseness and grossness, and made the world to laugh all the while.
 Perhaps no other two men so radically different in tastes and views of life as Gil
 bert and Sullivan ever worked together co hal hpi
 making. Sullivan was a sunny-hearted
 man of the more poetic emotions eminent ly characteristic of his tropical-natured
 race. He sung because he couldn't keep
 from singing; loved because he couldn't
 resist loving; was loved because he sought
 the love of all mankind; was generous be-
 cause all his impulses sprung from his ir-
 resistible spirit of human charity He sung
 and laughed his way into the affections of
 all English-speaking peoples; and so all of
 them will grieve that he is gone from the earth.
 Precisely what Sullivan was is precisely what Gilbert is not. Gilbert is a yain cross, selfish, ungenerous person, a wor- shiper of Gilbert, and in his offensive de-
 votion to himself he is without any seri- ous rivals. The great public of London
 takes no interest in him, cares nothing for him-that same public which adored his former associate in the makinG busi ness at the dear old Savoy, where every one of the long list of the Gilbert and Sul- livan clever conceits in comic opera was first produced. It was great event in the world of London, the production at the Savoy Theatre of something new from Gilbert nd Sullivan I remember inc first night of each 'NIkado 'Ruddygore and the revival of Pinafore,' of Patience and like wise in the long aftertime, 'Mikado Full six weeks before each first night every seat had been sold On the seventh night of the revival of 'Pinafore as l remember, I called at the Savoy box office with an Alabama friend to secure seats for night a week ahead. Sold for five weeks and a day. was the seat-sellers' laconic answer to our request. It was then 9:15 in the ev- ening, and as we turned sorrowfully away the man called us. Here are tickets for a private stall for tonight, just turned in, the purchaser being unable to use them he sa4u. We took the tickets at $5.10, and re- newed our acquaintance with 'Pinafore, first made at an amateur performance in a small Alabama town sixteen years be- fore.
 Amid the splendor of the Savoy, in Lon don, with the best Gilbert and Sullivan company ever brought together, our enjoy ment of Pinafore' was not half so great l as 1t had been in McMullan's Hall, Green vile, Alabama, when we two were boys who had never seen a professional actor"
 "There an American girl in Pima fore at the Savoy that night in 1896, and amongst all those whose hearts ache today because of the passing of Sir Arthur Sul- livan, perhaps her heart Is heaviest of all, if her bright spirit still stoops to the things of this world. She was Geraldine Ulmar, whom all American lovers of the play adored as the brightest girl in the old and famous Boston Ideals unhappiy of the past. One of the two young Alabamians had long acknowledged allegiance to the beautiful Geraldine and his joy was very full that night in the Savoy He used to have flowers thrown to her on the stage at Ford's old opera house in Washington, and found great happiness in doing so; and once he had the supreme delight of sitting with her at supper. His associate in these early devotions to Geraldine Ulmar was a very young man, who is now personally the most honored of all editors of the south.
 Force of habit may be, or pleasing mem- ory or some impulse of nationality or companionship, led the man who was that night in the Savoy to hurriedly procure d basket of flowers, to which he attached a l card that in part only was familiar to the | fair singer on the stage, and this he sent up with his compliments. Miss Ulmar-but | that is another story. Miss Ulmar enjoyed l Sir Arthur Sullivan's cordial attachment l and warmest admiration, and to her he was | alwaya good"
 l '"Twenty-first street between First av- | enue and Third avenue is in a most wretch | ed condition; but it could be so easily and quickly placed in first-class condition that | I wonder the City Council doesn't order
 the work done forthwith" said Major La
 Coste, the expert inspector of street-pav- ] hn,,t hn nnI thinac Id he dnr iS