Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-03-28


the Suburban at sheepshead Bay II
pleased Chicago for 10 weeks and IL
promises TO engage the attention Of
New York for half that time
THE Bishops Move has moved from
the Manhattan to Mrs. Osborn's play
house, where another effort win be
made 10 Interest our playgoers IN Mr.,
Hacketts first and unhappily unprom-
ising venture as nm Independent produce
er, Meanwhile, THE Earl of Pawtuck-
et goes to the Manhattan.
GRAND OPERA OVER.
Grand opera is over The curtain has
fallen at the Metropolitan and our fash
iona6le danes no longer have any place
whatever TO exhibit their charms, which
are mythical or their diamonds which
are real. The season began Nav a
with "Otello' with Eames as BESIDE
mona and Alvarez as the Moor, Scott
as lago and Homer as Emilia Ninety
one performances were given Of 81 up-
eras, The only new work produced was
der Wald, but several long neglected
scores, including "Un Ballo In Mas
cnera," Don PasQuale," La File de
Regiment Fro Leandro' and Or
Mamie We're revived. In number of per-
tormances Wagner, as usual led an the
rest. Twenty. seven evenings and mat
lnecs We're devoted to the music drama.
Verdi came next with % performances,
Gounod had nine, Meyerbeer eight
Puccini ana Donizetti seven each, Leon.
cavallu six, Mozart four Bizet and
Rossinl three each, Sgnor Man
clnelll Gro Leandro'O and Miss
Smyth CDcr Waldo two each, poor
Mascagni only one. and that cxecrabe
The singer who has earned most money
Is Nine, Sembrich, who kept IN good
health and voice all season and re-
manned ready for all encounters. The
Polish pTma donna has secured 100000
this winter. and a new engagement for
next season. \ smart woman Is Sem
brlch of great influence over the critics
and magnetism with impresari. She
is the pre-eminently fortunate prima
donna OF the year for the judges
praised her merits forgot her faults
and persuaded Mr.. Conried that he
could not get along without her Next
in prosperity comes Nine. Gadski, who
viii carry back to Germany almost
$4,000. Although not the highest
priced Of our urima donnas this Ber-
linese Is the most versatile She has
q prodigious repertory She can sing
anything, from Wagner to Mascagni
She has an iron constitution and the
sweetest voice Of the company. Gadsh
was guaranteed thirty performances
but she has given fifty. American
prima donnaS had no such prosperity
Nine. Nordica arrived late I'm the win
ter and probably aid not earn more
than $4,000 Mime. Eames opened the
season successfully but overstraned
her voice and nerves IN her efforts to
sing Ia Tosca and retired from the
opera several weeks ago. a victim of
nervous prostratlon Our beautiful
soprano cannot have earned more than
S25 600 No tenor has made a fortune
this year, but Alvarez carries 90 Paris
$4,000, De March Ca Italy $4,000, An
thes TO Germany $4,000. The box office
receipts OF the season Appropriated
$500 600 and Mr. Grau's profits amount
Cd to about 800 600. Their road tour
finished. the opera singers will return
10 the Metropolitan In April for the
annual benefit performance in compli-
ment TO their impresariO, out Of that
Mr., Grau win take from $4,000 20 500
600 Anyway, he has the satisfaction.
even In the present state Of his III
health, Of knowing that he Is the only
manager Of grand opera who not only
escaped bankruptcy but made money.
GRAUs ACHIEVEMENTS,
There Is a present ana lamentable
disposition In our newspapers to well
come the coming speed the part
ing guest. In his ascension Helm
rich Conried Is hailed, in his descen-
sion Maurice Grau is neglected.
But yesterday Grau might have stood
before the world, today there's none
so poor as viii remember him. 10
Is an III humor Of our public, which is
tickle and transfers It's affections easi-
~ from the falling 20 the rising
star. Thus ADA Rehan after 20 years OF
triumph at Days, was forgotten. Thus
Helena Modieska. Thus Georgia cay
van. Thus Palmer, once the cynosule
Of every eye now Is neglected and IN
poverty. Before Maurice Grau disap-
pears from the scene which long his
genius dominated. Il Is we'll TO pay some
tribute TO him. Grau is q great man.
lie has given the best performances
that grand opera has ever known. He
has rescued this speculation from the
bankruptcy that formerly attended 10,
He has assembled In one company the
greatest of singers and after paying the
salaries they asked he made money out
Of them. Maurice Grou began life as a
program boy. He reached an eminence
in operate management never attain
cd by any other manager He rescued
opera from the disaster into which Il
had fallen by the bankruptcy Of ABB
hey. Schoeffel and Grau. He paid all
his debts dollar for dollar incurred In
that disaster. He imported and estab-
lished the reputation of Nordlca Eames
Sembrlch, Jean and Edouard de Reszke,
Gadskl. Schumann-H cink, Scott. AL
varez. Dlppel. Camp3narl Suzanne
Adams, Van ROov. Van Rych. Saleza
and De march, He made even Wagner
declare a dividend. During the stanton
regime the stockholders were called ND
on to paw n deficit Of over t7o00o0,
Grau never has levied an assessment
on the Metropolitan stockholders. Since |
he assumed the MANAGEMENT of our |
opera Il has been self-Wpportlng.
Maurice Grau Is n manager Of extra |
ordinary genius. and Il Is by no means
pleasing 10 observe that the papers
which lately lauded this imnressarlo 20 |
the skies have now forgotten him IN /
their applause for his successor.
coNRIED's PLANS.
How about conrIed? He has sue.