The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-28
'HAMNHRSHEIN OUT OF OPERA
METROPOLITAN 4 MONOPOLY
M PAYING $4,000. OOO.

aeAa-n svaIs Get Bsh asnwers. seeaery
and ihs FnlanaelphsA IsO~se-
TNaaks SALARIES Mag TumbSe o nae.
After . four yoaF~ struggle that has
cost him all HIS time. some oG hts health
and certainly largo share Of hts fortune
Oscar Hammsrstein has gone out Of the
grand opera business for good. u took
. very bad Opsratic year to do the job.
bus No One man can stand up against the
opera deficit in its present day form.
Even the millionaire directors OG the
Metropolitan Opera Company are Jared
by the yawBing difference between outlay
and receipts into which they are forced
to peer every spring. 30 u 10 q wonder
that Hammerstein Wa ahle Ia STAY len the
game 80 long.
The announcement ~ his retirement
was made yesterday in the following
statement from Samuel Uni-rmyer. who
conducted the negotiations:
An agreement has been reachsd he
tween Oscar Hamm"rStein and Edward
7. sto,s-bnry % Philadeiphia 10y the
terms of which Mr. Stots~bury and
hts Associates acquire the Philadelphi0
Opera House property aad M Hammer
stein retireS from the field Of opera in the
cities of New York. Philadelphia and
elsewhere. The Manhattan Opera House
will he devoted by Mr. Hammen-tein 10
other purposes. A. a result ~ four years
experience Mr. Hammer-tsin finds that
the production 81 opera on the -cale on
which IL has been his ambition tn produce
IL has becOme Increasingly difhcuh year
by year The exactions 81 the artists
musicians and Others brought about by
ahe rivalry bstwsen the two opera houses
have gro~B almost beyond control and
have ls.en the Or aston of such advancing
prices that DotW outstanding the generous
,.atronaxe accorded nv the public each
% the hou-e- has been fare ~ face with
a deficiency.
Mr.. Ha,nmer-ic,n il satisfied that u is
in the interest Of the opera going public
thar these eNactions shall he kept within
hounds unless are To he deprived Of
opera and thai the only way 10 accomplish
that purpose 10 60 have one opera house
instead of Two. A. tho Metropolitan
company has wha' amounts to a subsidy
,hro,,.h IA. .,o.cL h,,I,I.,. !, ,,nn T,,vhar,.
80, T,,IeI 49,. ,,,,I,I,,, -.
ar,h,,. u.,v,,,,S,-,.,,,, -, -. ~.
,.,h.~.. 800 ~ .,,o.,.v .o,i -.
,..,..,t a., 4, ,h. ,,...-,,i,,;o,,. "a T.,
-, ,ha, ,h. -. -. $780, ~,
T,,.,.,, .,,,,,,iT,., :, a., ....,,,..,s,s ~ ~,
!. go, Ms go, -, a.,
s,,,,...l,,,-, n, ,h. - ana p.,,I m Cr.va,h
,hs Na,roDoli,an OD.ra Comoaov
s.ro,,.., Tn,.ruv.r who ac,sd for ho,h
-. %. ,,rsas.n, .I.o Nr H.mm.r.
.,a;,,,. a,,,rn..v, a, ,h. n,,.,.,ins wa.E "A
r.,
a., ,,,h.. r.,,..,,,..,, ,,,,.,.. ,h.,, q, I'M
49,, 49,. u.r,,,,,.r.,..I,, - -snI -,
80. S,,,I ,.,,.....,,,,, "a IN. N.nh.,,.O
o., a.. Th. ,.s,,,.,i,,,, 49,,
i,.t ns,., IN. Ro.,on .nea1emsn, az ,hs
c.u,nany s~o, n cal1I,. last NIGHT 10
ms r.,h., altar az. nans,. had han
.,Ened IA c.,-, mov.. than s9Oo Tn. ,i.v
I RAD AN an-w~r from INV t.th.r a..
aid I am S,ad We, am ..,ryv
A,,hur Hsmn.r,,.in saiI that la. b.d
M, .xa,, ia, a. In 4. IN, ,li~,,.,.it,on Ia.
r.,h.r uIsbt MAJ. az I'M. Manhattan
Ian, ,h,.,gh, !, u,Ixh, l,s u..,l T.,r yau,i...
vim. lie wiII ioin O.car Hamm.r.,,in
I, Pari. ns.t x,...k and thu. F,,tur. ~ the
oo.ra HONS. - itl IL. settled
TI,. fun .isnt6caDc.. of the trau-act,ar
l,scorn.. main oulv wb.n 4, "a Lpovvn ina,
Mr. S,.s..l,nry. who has been IN. mos,
~sueroua suptlorter 1f Mr. Hammer.
.,.;n'. PhiIaIeI,,hja ..o,.r,,ris- hR. teen
.,.,,.,d 90 ,b. bo.rt az d;r,.,,or. of a.,
MssroooIi,An OU~ra Cosnpany. and ina,
th. r,,,,r.. P,ilad.Iuhia r,.rforp. nc... a.
,h, u.,yopoI,,nn Ooera To,ppanv ain Ia
80, I'm ,h.. Philae,eInhia OD.rn Ho,,...
h,,iI, nv O.car Hamm.r.,.,n ,hrv. wear.
60 n..;,,..- H.. g,,,y,s.,, nsr,o,,ranc...
-, ,hsr. inv the M.,rouoIi,an Oo.r.
Sa,n,,nny ,h.r. wiIl IN. a ten weeL. ..a.,,n
10 ~. comDany from ,h. Ch,cnwo OU.ro
49,. ~hic1, ill A.. on.osd r.T, .ss.on
-. o,,,, 49,, -. AM, NO, ,r.n,v =. 60,
III '',...
a. go - ,L., a.. ,,...,,,,
-. C..".r 80. -. '...~I-.,' -
ot,,.a.,.Si. n,.,ra "a ch;o. -.
.s.--s.s 49,. W.nS..,.n o.. g..
- :..'L.n,.,,~ - -. hs,,,;.. 80
60 u.--..,~ ar - r..
r. Zs.,.~,,... o.. cos.
"~P' 49,