Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-30

Especial Correspondence
HICAGO April 21-Our Decline
4 for New York is detected when
we pick up the Chicago papers
Just out of Omaha, and see the
announcements that illuminate the add
vcrtising pages. with something of
panr. we note that the great opcratic
and theatrical headuners have taken
wing from the metropolis, but we are
partially reconciled when we see that
the flight OF some of them has been
arrested by entcrpri-ing thlca-o. td-
russo, Geraldine Farrar ana the other
stars OF the Metropolitan Opera COM
pany are here, MIude Adams has just
left. with westward no. hanging from
the rear platform of her private car
Sothern and Marlowe are due next
week and Henry Miller, tenn
porarily relaxing from such
strcuuosities as "the Servant
i'm the House" and "The Faith
Healer by producing "a new ana bub-
bling little comedy Her WIGS Hus-
band" Gin partnership with hldW
Erlauger-think OF IT, yo recorders Cd.
the mutations the theatrical seasons
bringD opens the night of our arrival
Art. with q big A. is monopolizing the
attention OF ChicagOanS this year of the
census They confidently predict That
Uncle Sans deCeunial count OF noses
will take the breath of many who Ina,
been wont to dccry the growing impur-
lance of the city by the lakes ana II
the adding machines spell out total
anything less than 100000 for her 1910
population, Chicago will be dIsap-
pointed city indeed Having arrived
at such propOrtions-eno TO cause
HHHf
Gus glance In her direction once or
tWice-ChiCago now thinks things
talks things and chershes ambitions
that come only with age, hlgncss and
a sense of perspective. Her leisure
class--shc actually has one, along with
London. New York and Boston-has
turned It's thoughts 90 music, after
having put the Art Institute on "a good
foundation. and how greatly In ear
nest the entorprising citizens are. both
those with leisure and that other see
tion that does not know the meaning
OF the word but that would remove
mountains if IL tended Co the greater
Qualification of Chicago--is shown Dos
what they have done FOR the Theodore
Thomas orchestra. by making 10
pcrmaneucy. and in building 1t home
that is one OF tho architectural adon-
mcnts OF the city
with the symphony question dis-
posed of Chose interested iu ascertain
ing just how big "a question that is may
consult Dr. Goshen, John ID. Spencer
and Prof Mcclellan. Chicago has set
her heart ON having resident grand
opera. Dippel cN-tCuor and oN-mauager
of the Metropolitan iu New York. has
been secured TO head the enterprise.
Society has set about raising "a sub
scription list OF $3.50 600 and most of %
Is said 20 have been promised, "a grand
opera house the city has boosted for
years; the necessary arrangements
have been closed with the Metropolitan
I'm New York. and Il nothing unforo-
seen happens, next winter win see a
Chicago house, equipped with a Chica-
20 chorus and "a Chicago
orchestra, fully rchcarsed and
ready for tho stars who Will
alternate the weeks between here
and New York Whether the result VIII
be dividends or assessments, who can
say? But that feature seems 20 cut
little figure with your patriotic Chi
cagoan. with whom everything is sec
ond 20 the onward and upward climb OF
the city OF his alteration.
SO the great Metropolitan Opera COM
pany, favored OF heaven and earth In