The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-31
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PEOPLE Of NEW YORK CITY
Expenditure Money During Holiday Season Just Ending
Was Greatest in History Of Metropolis Report
Single Sales Exceeding 100000 Manhattan Thea
tire Packed at Every Performance Carusos Successor

fashionable places, or even to buy his
clothes he is obliged to face the same
competition, and he finds 1t rather
wearing. Still, as perhaps his own
living may depend more or less on the
wealth left by the birds of passage,
he dare not complain.
The two operas are now an estab-
lished fact. The question as to wheth-
err the public would support Hammer
STEMS venture, the new Manhattan,
was quickly answered in the affirma-
tive, and that house is now sold out
for every performance. Its success IS
another demonstration that an honest
offering of good music is appreciated.
In the first place the auditorium is a
bright handsome one, and has been de-
signed so that even in the last rows
of seats one has the impression of be-
ing comparatively close to the stage,
while the effect at the Metropolitan is
just the reverse. Hammerstein, too,
is giving good opera. HIS premier ten
or, Borci, has quickly become a great
popular favorite. Comparisons are
supposed to be odious, but all the town
has awaited to hear the verdict as to
whether formidable rival to Caruso
had been .ouni, and the consensus
of judgment appears to be that that
ia just what Hammerstein has accom-
plished. Although Borci may not have
as great natural voice as Mr.. Con-
ried's star, he is artistically superior,
and is more finished in his knowledge
of the higher realms OF music. Borci
is very small in stature, yet in the
short time that he has sung here this
physical defect is lost sight of in the
musical public's appreciation of his
gifts as singer. Not only the singing
at the Manhattan has been put on a
high plane, but all else that goes to
make opera attractive has been we'll
done. The staging and scenic effects
are excellent, and the production of
"Aida" there presented as beautiful
a bit of pageantry and mimic splendor
as has been seen in long time. Mr..
Hammerstein's prosperity has not,
however, lessened the support given
the Metropolitan, where the crowds are
as great as ever to hear Caruso, Plan
con and Nine. Sembrich, and where
opera is given on the same scale of
excellence as in the past. What has
happened is simply that New York
now has two splendid operas to choose
from, and the music-lover is the gamer.
The theaters almost without excep-
ton are we'll filled nightly. The latest
offerings are Joe Webers new show,
Dream City" at the little theater that
was so popular for years as weber 4
Fields" ;and De Koven's Student
King" at the Garden theater. Fields
has a good comedy OF the semi-vauie-
willie character that used to bring
crowds and money to the house in it's
hey-day; but the lines are new, the
music is Pleasing and the actors are
good ones. An additional attraction
at Weber's is Cissie Lotus, who is
again giving limitations in which she
won fame and in which she is without
rival. The. Student King" also has
caught the popular fancy and bids fair
to have long run. Maude Adams has
returned to the Empire in Peter Pan"
with a new act written in, and as
always with her, when the curtain
goes up every seat is filled. Other at
fractions which continue to do we'll are
"Neptune's Daughter" the big spec
tacle at the Hippodrome; Margaret
Anglin and Henry Miller in 1.-THE
Great Divide" at the Princess; Anna
Held in "The Partisan Model at the
Broadway, and last years big success
The Lion and the Mouse" at the
Lyceum.