Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-03-24
STRAY TOPICS faONi LITTLE OL,D new YORK.

New York, March 2..-What4 iSsstO
become Of Oscar Hammerstein's new
Lexington Avenue Opera House?
This is one OF the most discussed ques
tlons In New York theatrical circles
at the present time. Mr.. Hammerstein;
has not given up. all hope of produc.
ing grand opera in the new house, but
this will be possible only in the event
Of q favorable decision of the Appel.
late Court on the Injunction obtained
by the Metropol tan Opera Company.
II the decision is against him he may
turn the big theatre into a home for
English melodrama. Or, again, he may
join the procession and turn the house
over 'tosthe movies"
One Of tie, largest weddings Of the
season took place this afternoon at
Flushing, LII. The bride was Miss
Eleanore Simonds, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. +. NJ. Simonds Of Flushing,
and the bridegroom Marion j. ,Ver-
derry, Jr., son of NJ. J. Verdery, for.
mer president of the Southern Soci-
ETY. OF New York. Mr.. Verderys is a
graduate of Princeton, class OF 1910.
and lives at Great Tails, Mont, where
he is a construction engineer. His
cousin and classmate. the Rev. Chas.
P. Deems of the Seamen's Church In:
stitute OBLIGATED at the wedding cere-
moly, which took place in St. George
Protestant Episcopal Church. More
than M thousand guests were in at
tendance.
Five Thousand exhibitors. from all
parts of the United States, Canada,
Great Britain and the Continent are
expected to attend the second annual
exhibition of the motion picture art to
be held at the Grand Central Palace
this spring, under the combined aus.
pieces Of the International Moving
Picture Exhibitors and the nIedpend-
ent Exhibitors of America. The All.
nllal conventions of the International
Motion Picture Exhibitors and the In
dependent Exhibitors Of America will
be- held in connection with the exhibit
ton. y
One frequently reads of sailing
ships staunch and still in service at
the age of 50 years or more. In con-
parison with these, the big modern
steamships have careers resembling
that of a. summer butterfly. But a
little more than Is years. ago New
York a agog w the arrival of tho
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, of the
North German Lloyd Line, on her mai
den trip from Europe, The vessel was
hailed as "the last word in marine
construction" and American million:
aires arranged their dates SO that they
might take passage on this greatest
Of all ships. And now the Kaiser VIII
helm der Crosse is to be devoted ia
third class and steeragey traffic only.
So rapid is the the Wogress In marine
construction that a dozen years
hence the Olympic, the 1mperator and
even the. new Aquitania may be rele.
gated to steerage traffic. And perhaps
all the transatlantic passenger YES,
sells may he put out of business by,
that time with the people fitting back
and forth s0ver. sthe 'big pond In air
ships. Who knows! .
And now the Grand Union Hotel
at Forty.sec0nd Street and Park Ave
nue. appears to be scheduled for raz-
Ing. 1t must come down in order to
provide, the diagonal connection be-
tween the old Park Avenue, subway
and the new Lexington. Avenue. line.
The Grand Union Hotel, though hard
ly to be claSsed among the. historic