New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-19
LONDON MUSIC AND ART
HammerStein Opera a Success
SandoW in His Company.
BALLETS STILL IN FAVOR
Urgent Demand for Rare Prints
Shown by Huth Sale and
Other Dispersals'

! London Nov 1S.-Oscar Hammer
stein closes the first week of his new
Opera House by repeating "Quo Vadis?
1 and william Tell" with minor changes
in each cast, and will carry the same
oreras and Norma" through secohu
week. There is no novelty to-day eN-
cent the appearance Of Sandow as the
Giant Killer. and that can hardly De
considered a musical triumph. a series
OF Sunday evening concerts Will open
tomorrow at the Opera House. with
popular prices. Mr.. Hammerstein mas
made good at the beginning ana holds
several novelties in reserve
Neil Forsyth is conducting the defence
at Covent Garden with strenuous en-
ergv. Wagner s greatest works are be-
ing produced with German thoroughness
and a Russian ballet is In fun SWING
with the Cars dancer of honor, Nine
Kchessinska pirouetting across the stage
on one foot and adapting the other root
TO an entirely different measure.
Chorus Of Fifty Children.
After the production Of Humperdinck's
"Koenigskinder with a chorus OF nfty
children. next week there VIII be a
Russian ballet, the Lac des Cygnes,
as the eliminating feature of unique
season.
The music halls. exposed to the unex-
pected opposition of Covent Garden, are
Introducing daring Oriental scenes and
, freakish exhibitions Of sensationalism
Some of these performances are often
sive to decency, and realism is carried
long way when horse gallops around
the stage with a dancer strapped across
the animals back.
The sale of the HUH library has at
tracted dealers and collectors from the
Continent, all in pursuit of literary
I treasures, pursuit which has been
shown to be highly profitable if not
speculative enterprise. Day after day
| Quaritch has been bidding In rare books
or Illuminated manuscripts at prices ten
times as high as his father paid for
them half a century ago This is good
proof that book collecting, when con-
Quoted scientifically is a method Of
sound investment.
Some Whistler Etehines.
| Etchings are going to America rapid
/ ly. as literary treasures demand rare
prints. So urgent is the demand that
the formation OF any fresh collection
| here has become difficult, owing to the
exhaustion of stock. There is an I'M
usually important one at the Gutekunst
Gallery, where twenty-five Of Whistler's
etchings and Autographs are exhibited,
with twenty nine Meryons and Rem
brandts, many in their first state. Ed
mund Dulacs water color drawings IL
/ Illustrating Hans Christian Andersen
make brave show at the Leicester Gal
lerles. There is also belated but most
interesting exhibition at the Tate Gal
leries Of the work Of Alfred Stevens, the
neglected genius. who with adequate ap-
probation might have done as much
fof Victorian London as Wren accom-
/ plished in the seventeenth century.
Chrstie's autumn sales opened to-day
with a large stock of water color draw
| ings.
! Archbishop Bourne starts for Rome
early next week to become a member Of
the Sacred College at the papal con-
sistory. The American cardinals will
| land at Cherbourg at about the same
time
! Dr. James Douglas, as past president
Of the American Institute Of Mining En-
gineers, will read a paper on American
/ industrial progress next week at the
Royal Society of Arts.
/ IT is announced that George NJ. Ire
velyan will write a biography Of John
! Bright