Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-21
LONDON ID HAVE SECOND OPERA
 HOUSE
New Rival to Old Music Temple Will Be Owned and Run By Oscar RamnlerStein, As In New York,
Special Cable to Review) By Robert Frederick.


 LONDON, July 20.-London is to have a second opera house like New York. and as in New York. the rival to the older music-temple will be an Oscar Hammerstein House.
 Before he left London on his re- turn to New York, the director of the Manhattan Opera House uAfolded his plan for giving the masses Of music lovers in London a low price opera house. At present first-class grand opera can only be had at Covent Gar den, which is open only five months in the year, and where the prices are prohibitive
 Hitherto" says MT Hammerstein, opera has been conducted on the wrong principles. It has been sup posed that this form of entertainment only appeals to people of the highest intellect and the greatest amount of money. l might say, to people with much money and little intellect. In the fashionable opera house the seen cry is not on the stage but in the auditorium, where one finds an ex- hibition of diamonds and of costly garments. It is for this display that the architects have designed tiers upon tiers of rabbit-hutch boxes.
 But the opera house of the near future will be built for the accommo- dation of the great paying middle classes. and it will not be long be- fore London possesses such build ing. A scheme which I have in my mind is nearly settled. and the money is ready. The theatre will be es- pecially built for the purpose. When II return to London in the late Au- tumn I shall be able, hope, to an- nounce full details of my scheme.
 New York has two opera houses, and surely London can support two"
 Another British peeress has Gone into trade" Lady Auckland, wife of the fifth baron of Auckland, has just opened a furniture and decorators business in the West End in order to make a living for her family, who have been ruined by Unlucky specu- lation.
 The sign over the shop says. "Mor- ton and Edwards" but the sole pro- prietTess is Lady Auckland who chooses to trade under these plebian- sounding names. Lady Auckland has excellent taste and understands the planning. decorating and furnishing of artistic houses. She frankly con fesses that she has been obliged to start this business in order to support herself, her husband, and her two boys at school.
 'I have made a special study" said Lady Auckland to an interviewer of the planning and decorating Of new houses. I simply love furnish ing and decorating; 1t calls fer so much Of the artistic side of a cul- tured woman's temperament. I feel sure there is a great field for me here. l may say that have received offers from London firms to under take this sort of work, and even from American firms. But I thought, I could do so much better for myself"
 Lady Auckland is by no means the first English aristocrat to enter busi- ness life. The list of titled traders includes the following:
 The Duchess of Abercorn, who has a creamery at Baronscourt; Lady Els sex and Mrs. H. Williams, who own a laundry; Lady Duff-GOrdon, who has smart dressmaker's busi- ness; Lady Rachel Byng daughter of Lord Strafford), who has an artistic needlework shop; Lady Aileen Wynd- ham-Quin daughter of Lord DUn- ravenJ, who presides over a school for gardening; Mrs. Bertha Dormer tniec to Lord Dormer), who is a mil liner; Lady Algerun Gordon-Lennox, who has commenced business in the fruit bottling industry; Lord Rosslyn, who was at one time associated with perfumery business in the North of London; The Earl of Hardwicke, who was engaged in the cigar trade; The Hon. F. A. C. Chellusson, son and heir heir of Lord Sandhurst), and the Hon. F. A. c. hellusson, son and heir of Lord Rendlesham, who are wine merchants, and Lord Harrington, who for years carried on a fruit shop at Charing Cross.
 Queen Alexandra wore a real Irish gown. made by Irish peasant girls, when she was at Dublin with the King to see the Worlds fair.
 The dress, which has been finished at fashionable Dublin dressmaker's was of rich Irish poplin, one of the Queens fayorite materials trimmed with carrickmacross lace.
 This lace was made by peasant girls, who worked under the direc- tion of the Countess of Aberdeen, the Vicereine. Lady Aberdeen hurriedly arranged for the lace to be made at the Queens special request.
 The poplin gown was worn by the Queen when she drove through the city on arrival; and at the garden party given by the Lord Lieutenant, her Majesty wore a gown composed entirely of Limerick lace, With a toque of shamrocks.
 Lord Charles Beresford, the British admiral so well known to Americans. has given his consent for his daugh- ter's conversion to the Catholic faith. Miss Beresford. who is young. charm ing, beautiful, and very musical is finishing her education at the Road hampton Convent, near London, and when she makes her debut in Society it will be as member of the Roman Catholic church.
 That women are not "clubbable" as men are, has been repeatedly stated since ladies' clubs began to spring up in London. A severe roast ing of women as club-members is now published, written by a woman who has just returned to London after living many years abroad.