Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-14
At Least Forty Being Drilled:

liiV a-who-used-to-be in hand is going to
get out of the business with whole nnan-
cial skin.
At Least Forty Being Drilled:
There are at least forty women now being
drilled in chorus antics for the production
of "Parsifal" and the rest of the repertoire
at the Metropolitan Opera House who can
sing a great deal better than Nine. Pattl
now can. and they will get an average oil
SD a week for hard, unceasing WORK ana
live in miserable huddles of gariicky East-
Side boarding houses, while the money ISM
II. aIert little songStreSS-t twas VIII get
.. oro for her half hours work of an even
ino-for she sings now as II singing we're
lily, work for her-and continues, as dGf-
inc her former tours. 10 exact who're ilool .
of the hotels at which she stops lot iler
Indprrnt-at the impress lrio's expense
The impressario. they say Is iisoIihs
uron the fact that Il new genera tioii iida
sprung up since the little old LADY last y ISL ISL,
,-bo-in,acines the impress arin-WlH rock
To boar Patti lust to tie able to say that
tIay,d seen her" Maybe so. But the new
genera ton didn't surge and storm apout nle
doors so that You could hoCte H. uu' ms
PATHS engagement here
TEo audiences were distinctly srrawny,
and they seemed to be composed almost eH-
clusfvely of elderly people VINO propapiy
wanted 10 renew. for little while, the uiS >
~ thai,. Youth by Just looking at the thih-
l;cod little creature whose reign anted lted
the ancient crinoiine mania. lhere are d
whole lot of things that NUMBER OF so
musical managers of New YORK Would faln-
or have in their safes than contract 10
pay Nine. Patu so,''o d hiS"'
American tour.
Sad Case of an Old Actress.
Inst a little while ago the sad case OF
o, old foreign actress over here was the
occasion for the exuda ton of a great deal
off,
strong for that sort of thing The name
of the actress with the sad case attach-
nent was and is, Janauschek, a Polish
voman who for a great many years dlu
tragedy rolls indifferently well in TINS
country. and always with cultural anu
wholly impossible accent that 1nfaiiiply
made her performances more or less
ri1;cnIous in the ears of Americans with
any sort of a sense OF humor.
Nevertheless and notwithstanding. the
Americans paid. as 1t was estimated the
other day by a man who has these ngures
nrettv nat more than $3.D,oGo to listen to
Janauschek tearing passion TO tatters III
a Polack dialect during her ltiherdn IT
career in the United States. All OF TINS
money or her very large share OF h-lor
sba always carried companies that were
simply hopeless in their incompetency ana
| cheapness-Janauschek. who used 10 stamp
her foot and rage at the very Suggestion
! that Americans had enough sense to go IN
doors when IT rained or enough appreci-
alton Of art to know the dlHefence De-
| tween a Velasquez and a lo-cent chromo-
! ali of this money Janauschek tossed away
with the snowy extravaganza OF Russian
princess-an extravaganza that must as
! s1redly have been deliberately cultivated,
| for Janauschek was far from having been
born to the purple. or anything like IT.
| Janauschek simply blew in" the hum
| dreds of thousands of dollars that the
! Americans lavished upon her, and when
| she had got to the end OF her extravagant
| tether and playgoers began to exhibit a
| preference for watching and listening to
| stage persons who knew something about
! how to speak the English language. Janau-
| schek and Janauscheks singularly maud
| lin and forgetful friends began to reproach
| and reprobate the American people for
| ''neglecting Janauschek.
| That cry has been emitted by them for a
| great many years however since Ameri-
| cans became discriminating enough to
| know a good tragedienne when they saw
! one and similarly an inferior one. since
| too they commenced to manifest a Ger
| tain sort of wistful preference for hearing
| actors and actresses whose words they had
! a one to- ten chance of understanding. The
| Janauschek crowds lamentations became
! so loud over the neglect to which the
| American people were suojecting the Polish
| woman that. more to stop the noise thar
! for any other reason, big theatrical ben
| EFT was devised. for her in New York.
Nearly $4,000 Out of Benefit.
/ Nearly $4,000 was got out of that BEN