Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-24

VIII see Louise Homer, the great
singer. and hcr husband. the equally
great composer.
prcsently as You look round again
you wiz make up your mind that
everybody who is anybody is here.
Look up and YOU viii soc j Pircpont
Morgan in n box in In, "scshoe.
There sits Josef ilofnA i,c sub
ducd. with his studious Nine.
Gudski and her HUSBAND, btcr there
is Humpcrdinck. whose rev opera.
like Pucclni's, will be produced for
the first time in this very auditorium
before many nights are over. In
another place YOU sec blanche Bates,
who created the original role of Min
nic in the play. There sits Riccardo
Martin and his Wife: UP there in n
box Is Col. Aston and in another Mrs.
belmont. over there sits President
Butler of Columbia, and not far away
Walter Damroech. In another place Is
Henry ClewS. and Up farther Mr., ana
Mrs. Charles II. OLSON
There YOU will see Il delegation or
the Guggcnhcim family, and Eben ID.
Jordan. the Boston millionaire. the
backbone of the opera in the Hub,
who came over especially for this per.
fcrmancc. There Is Henry Savage, VINO
is to produce the opera later on, IN
English. In this country. ana W. i;
Shechan. the lawyer ana politician ana
Nine. Sembrich and her husband. UP
in the boxes you Will see collection
Of Vnnderbilts and some Goulds There
ls the lovely Mrs. Phil Lydig. There
MIR. Kcrnochan, and right in front OF
me is Ross Appleton. the banker
There Is George w. Perkins, the part
ner of Morgan, who has just left that
firm in order to engage in VAST
scheme of yrotit-sharing which. so the
people say. will rcvolutioniZe the en-
tire industrial situation.
There sits General Roe and not iar
from him some more military men
Among the standccs ut the back you
will see many Italian BARRIERS. Even
IN in the gallery you will find ceie-
hrities, who have paid ten and Twelve
limos the price to get in. Every nation
on earth Is represented. from mem
hers of the Chinese embassy, VINO
have come on from washington, 10
cantains of ocean greyhounds and de-
bonair tobacco planters from 'upa'
Mixed IN with all these are professors
from schools and universities Sclen-
lists over there in the dress circle u
n great surgeon Of international re-
nowu who Is sacrificing half dozen
fees to hear this opera. IN anoihcr
placc is n noted painter. VINO tens
Won that he doesn't know anything
about music but he has come tonlSnt.
'NVnv off at tho back sits little oid
| can for she was once prcat prlna-
DONNA herself. and knew triumphS IN
her day. Now she Is trembling Win
| the excitement Of the moment sack
Of me sits a small old man whom |
can remember way pack III tne aaS
Of Maplcsor and Maret2ek, when he
used to lend the poor opera hhaser
money and 50 often kept doors open
which would otherwise have beeh
closed 49,
Let mo not forget the critics. They
| are all thcre--thc men VINO can go
| back in the years, the men VINO nave
! sat in the Same places, have heard and
| coon every performance Of any note,
| have witnessed the rise and fa'l or
4 great singers Even though they have
! boon present at rehcarsalS trey are
I eager 10 rocord how the great pubic,
,Yfuse verdict is llnal. Will receive the
york
.iuo whether Signor fuCcini has stuck
an, american note in his music That
IS, whether it win be merely an Ameri-
| IAN plot or music which has some dis-
| tiuctiyc local color and flavor
You hear people telling how Puccinl
| came TO write this opera. HOW ne got
/ The idea four wears ago when nc came
tn New York 10 superintend the pro-
| duction Of "Madam Butterfly anu
| bonprncd 10 see i!caSco's "Girl OF the
| Golden West" and. although he could
not understand English. was 50 I'M,
! pressed with the dramatic action ana
! the grip OF the Flay that he determln-
| cd, then and there, to create an
| opcru which should be worthy OF the
| drama and It's story.
Others talk of the tremendous re-
| ccipts for the night, which they say
| viii reach nearly $4,000 and which
| vii break The record, With the excep-
| ton OF what was known as Prince
| Henry night" NJ the opera, when thN
| thc Metropoi,nn took in does not in
| any way represent the prIc" To- tho
| public. for that can he easily put ut
| from $50. 900 10 100000. the dit
| ccrencc representing the profits OF the
| spectators
HOLIDAY EXCURSIONS.