Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-20

guaranteed fifty performances. AS he sings
| both Italian and German and has become a
great popular favorite, he will probably sing
| over sixty times before the end of the season.
| Miss Farrar. Madame Gadski, and Madam
| Fremstad each receives one thousand dollars e.
performance. Each of them will sing more
| than the guaranteed number allotted in the
| table. Miss Destinn who does not rank below
any of the Metropolitan singers in popular
favor, receives only six hundred dollars per-
Torrance Mr. Conried was lucky enough to
| get her to sign three years contract beginning
at five hundred dollars and increasing each year.
After next season, she will doubtless be gradu-
ated into the thousand-dollar class, where she
rightly belongs Meanwhile her friends refer
to her as The Battered Destinn" when oper-
attic salaries are under discussion.
Miss Farrar was more shrewd than her old
Berlin rival in making terms with Conried. He
wanted three years contract but she saw to
| it that he obtained only a one years leave of
absence for her from the kaiser's Royal Opera.
She sang for six hundred dollars night that
| first year, and after her successful season MIR.
| Conried had to come up to four figures to renew
| the contract.
| Mr. Burrian, the leading German tenor, re-
ceves guaranty of thirty performances and
sings oftener. Mr.. Scott is paid four hundred
| and fifty dollars an appearance. with guar
| anty of ten performances each month. Ma
| dame Homer. Ricardo Martin, and Carl Jorn
are paid by the season, and receive extra COM
| an allotted number of times within month.
Mr.. Jorn is big gamer by this arrangement, as
he IS equally at home in the German. French.
and Italian repertoire and is the best emergency
tenor about the Metropolitan since Mr.. DIPPED
gave up singing for management.
Capturing Tetrazzini
| WITH delicate consideration for his own
w pocketbook Mr.. Hammerstein has made
a successful practice of discovering new and
valuable singers and engaging them at moderate
| prices. But where he has had to splurge to
| land big star he has done SO without stint In
his first season he paid Madame Melba more
| money than she had ever received at the Metro
politan. The following year he captured Tet-
| raZZinI.
The advent of this wonderful co1oratura
singer is fine example of the working out of
| the star system. Four years ago Luisa Tet-
| razzini was absolutely unknown to the operate
public. Then reports filtered across the coun-
| try of the furore she had created in Mexico and
California. After time Heinrich Conried be-
came sufficiently interested to commission an
agent to engage her for the Metropolitan. The
price agreed upon hundred and fifty dol
| lars a performance. After the contract was
signed. Conried promptly forgot all about his
| new phenomenon. With contracts on his
| hands guaranteeing Madame Sembrich eighty
| performances at twelve hundred dollars and
| Selma kurtz sixty performances at one thou
sand dollars, Mr.. Conried was thinking only of
| how he could get nd of some of his coloratura
| talent. And result he neglected to validate
| his contract with Tetrazzini by keeping up the
stipulated payments of advance money
The next heard of Tetrazzlni she had burst
upon London and created furore. turning the
popular priced fall season at Covent Garden
into greater success than the fashionable
term of late spring Mr.. Hammerstein tired to
| engage her by cable but failed. Then he
| despatched a representative to London and
| captured the prize Madame Tetrazzini made
| her New York debut at fifteen hundred dollars
a night instead of hundred and fifty She en-
| joys guaranty of fifty appearances but sings
nearer seventy times and probably carries
check for hundred thousand dollars back to
Europe as souvenir of her seasons work.
What the Others Get
MISS MARY GARDEN receives twelve hun
A'A dred dollars night from Mr.. Hammerstein.
and is guaranteed fifty appearances She sings
| regularly three times a week. and is known to
| have achieved five performances in six days.
| Her American season nets her close to hun
| bred thousand dollars.
| Since the retirement of Victor Maurel. the
distinction of being the worlds highest priced
barytone belongs to Maurice Renaud. Mr..