Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-11-29

pressario is amlable and the salaries
are prodigious. Several years ago
foreign singer brought letter OF intro
duction TO this writer. II was stormy
winter day and her clothes were heavy
with snow. shabby too, and well mend
ed Your cnrriageY "Carriagef'
laughed she bitterly 81 have no money
for a carriage" Lost Sunday this phi
ma donna drove past your correspon-
dent IN Central Park The In a modest
hanson, she I'm q gorgeous equippage
with coachman and fo0tman, two high
stepping horses and a coat Of arms on
the panel Al right, too, for she is
model wife and mother In these days
her salary IL $1,000 a night. There,
also, Is Mime. Nordica, who used TO sing
In concert at 500, but now receives $1,000
a night in the opera There Is Nine.
Games, who began at $3.50 a night and
now earns $1,000. Mr. Grau takes In
and pays out great deal of money,
His salary disbursements alone amount
10 between $4,000 and 81 900 night, we
nave more millionalres than loges and
seats in the diamond circle are held
by the elect. The metropolitan
owned by the stock holders who bullt
II IN opposition 10 the ola Academy OF
Music the boxes of when We're III pos
session of the Hnickerbocker lamliles'
whoWould not admit the newly rlch'lhe
arIstoclacy could no, light against tne
plut0cracy Henry p, Abbey was up-
pointed director OF the Meuopontah
with no restriction as to cost ana ms
lavish expenditure Of money soon GIolp
Colonel Mapleson out of compeut'ou'
The academy, deserted became
melodramatic theater ana lashiIli
aocked to the Metropolitan Inc GU
families and many Of the newer mn
lionalres tried to get ia. j was 700 iute'
The boxes were occupied by the orig,
lnal projectors of the enterprise ana
mere money could not buy them an
offer of $50 900 was made last year LOT
one of these loges. hut it was reluseu
scornfully. Consequently, we nave
great number Of rich people WHO
could buy the opera house, but VINO can
not buy one OF It's lOges. Andrew Gar
negie Is a lover Of music, but he can
not secure a box The Rockeiellers
have no box. Mrs. Charles T. ferkes'
whose gowns Jewels and beauty are
aaually Respondent could not display
them III the charmed diamond circle
Helen Gould mas no box, nor Howard
nor Frank, but George Gould was tax
en- in by Henry Clews, who kindly al
loved mlllionalred head OF the
Could family to use his box FOR one
evening in the week,
The shareholders ON occasions nave
rented their boxes for $1,000 a night
hut the courtesy was extended only to
their particular friends
All this without a word Of the OPEN
ing of the season. But opera Is a So
clal function in which art, though the
first essential, receives little attention
on Monday "Otelo, with Nine
Eames IN fine voice and NM Alvarez
and Scott In their famous characters
Of Otcll0 and Iago. a crowded house
and Jewels galore. On Wednesday IL
Barbiere.P with Sembrich in fine voice,
Edward de 4ezke. Campanari and sal
ignac. This brief note is all that seems
necessary. Learned critics-krehblel,
Henderson. Finck and others-Wrote
columns on the art OF the opera, but
few folks read them. The Metropolitan
season Is like the horse show, an OPP
portunity for display AZ the horse
show, walking costumes. NJ the opera
bah costumes, horses incidental to the
one. singers Incidental to the other;
millinery In the afternoon, diamonds in
the evening, Meantime singers think
they are being listened TO, critics think
they are being read, Bless their hon
est hearts. no. We pay $4,000 night
10 see and TO be seen and that Is grand
opera at the Metropolitan.
HILLARY BELL,
Copyright by H. Anhalt.