Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
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The twelfth annual spring season Of
the Aborn English Grand Opera Com
panies will open on Monday, May 4,
when two of these organizations will
/ begin long engagements at the Teck
4 Theatre, Buffalo, and the Alvin
Theatre, in Pittsburgh. Another of
the Aborn organizations will inaugu-
rate it's spring season the following
Monday, May IL. at Ford's Opera
House, in Baltimore, and two more
will open at the Brooklyn Academy of
Music and the New National Theatre
/ in Washington on Monday, May IS.
! There will be five of these organiza-
tions running at the same time in the
! opera houses mentioned, each one
numbering about 100 persons in it's
cast orchestra, chorus and staff. AS
usual, only the leading artists will
! travel from one city to another over
the circuit, while the chorus, orches-
ira and staff of each company will
remain located in one city, as long
as the season lasts.
This institution, which employs 500
or more singers and musicians during
| the spring OF each year, has been de-
veloped by Milton and Sargent Aborn
through many successful seasons, and
| has become so firmly established in
many of the larger Eastern cities
| that music-lovers in those cities look
for an Aborn series of grand opera
in English as one of the inevitable
signs of spring.
Their repertoire this season will in
clule Madam Butterfly" III Trova-
tore" Faust" Lucia di Lammer-
moor" Martha LA Boheme, +"
'Rigoletto," "Cavalleria Rusticana,"
81 Pagliacci," "Hansel and Gretel,"
Secret of Suzanne" "Thais," Mig
nom" Carmen" "The Tales of Hoff-
man." Romeo and Juliet" La
Tosca," LA Giaconda," and THE
Bohemian Girl"
The New York H'ppodrome revival
of II. NJ S. Plnafore" has oroven
such an unqualified success that the
air is full of wild rumors concerning
similar operate works to follow
Nearly every standard light opera,
from 1.-THE Chimes of Normandy" to
1.-THE Queens Lace Handkerchief"
has been mentioned as possible
| candidate for presentation on the
huge Hippodrome stage.
As "a matter of fact, the liberal pub
lie patronage that greeted "Plnatore"
has not and will not lure the Hippo
drome management into a definite
permanent change of policy. The
vast playhouse will remain the house
of spectacular sensationalism, ex-
pressed in one annual creation from
the mental storehouse of Arthur
Voegtlin, although it is entirely with
in the range of possibilities that on
annual spring season of light opera
may become a fixed feature 81 the
Hippodrome.
Fritz Leiber, who is one of the most
prominent actors in Robert B. Man
tells company, which is playing at
the Shubert Theatre here, reclted
Shakespeare's "Seven Ages of Man"
during the three hundred and flftieth
birthday anniversary celebration In
honor of the great dramatist in Cen
trail Park, New York. He was greatly
applauded. Mayor Mitchell, who pre-
sided, said that the reading of
Shakespeare's works has made 1t pos
sible for him to be a better mayor
than he could have been without that
training.
Ground has been broken for new
theatre for Frank A. Keenev in Long
Island City. As is the case with al
the Keeney theatres. the new house
will be known as "Keeney's," and
will be modelled after the Keeney
Theatre in this city.
1t will be built OF brick and terra
Gotta, with main floor and one hal
cony only. It will cost in the neigh
borhood of $4,000 and will be locat-
ed on jackson avenue, within a block
of the Queensboro bridge plaza. The
new house will be ready to open early
in September.