The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-20

the Metropolitan opera House
this season Will not be deprived Of the u
opera. They're EoirC 10 hear II from
the stage itself and what's more. they re
going 10 be pad FOR bearing T.. Grand
opera being n necessary allunN. to a
college education. or prescribed eN-
tension course. as the students call IT,
the students have decided 10 hear their
grand opera by suping
When the call for supes for car
ole." WAS sent out few weeks ago .he
sixteen students presented themselves
70 +. II. Judels, 8. S. superintendent Of
supes), and told him they were ready
10 stick by him for the season. It's
not easy always 10 get supcs for grand
opera, so Mr. Judeis WIS e4ated AZ the
ndws- lie told them they were more
than welcome. and that he would see to
y that they were placed in any per-
Torrance they desired All that Mr..
Judels has 10 do row when ne wants a
reliable supe is 70 call up Columbia and
ASA for the Supes' Club.
Tia club was organized under cir
cuplstances more novel than any other
organization or fraternity at Columbia.
|; so happens in Carmen" that tho
supes only have TO appear In the first
and last acts. After thu hrs, act they
can do what they pleasc-that Is. ne
Columbia supes can-aud they would
, have climbed 10 the uppermost wings to
watch Mss Farrar In her first Carmen
II Jules Speck, the stage manager. had
not requested them 10 be good for lust
one night that nothing might veN Ms
| Farrar.
Mes enfante." expostula;ed Mr.. Speck,
! beckoninG the college supcs 10 him
YOU would not wish to spoil the frs
performance of Carmen eh' Re-
member, Il is Miss Farrar's evening, You
will not be naughty. eh""
mot guilty" replied one who as
sumed the responsibility OF spokesman
Come on, fellows, Wei 90 downstairs 90
And so they did, down two flights
under the great stage where they finally
sat themselves around a table in the
supcs room II was an odd gathering.
with the exception Of TWO or three men
al woro tile toreador ccstnmc. They
liz cigarettes, pack of cards was pro-
duced aud shortly game o. rum was
in progress
"Tho game continued unW ! y
Singer began. to talk about 4 supeS
club. Thc,eAfter mtu the hell rara
summonine thcm to form IN h1t,,e AZ
ray for the last act. argument held
sway. finally resolving itS,U into an
election. Singer was proclaimed prosi-
dent Il. Is. Munrue. secretary and u
4. Dobc, official Representatives. They
arc all New Workers
W. y. Rraiton. who rowcd No. &
oar for the victorious CplumhiH crew
last year az Poughkeepsie, lost out for
the presidency by a harrow margin,
Rratton comes from Alaska aud he was
. the heaviest man on the crew. hut the
audience, listening tn the NJ tropolltau 5
reVva, of Carmen didn't know II WAS
he standing less than threa Tee, away
from Caruso. And the torcador ht do
him was +. l.. l. adN, WHO is one oi
Culumbas fastest runners. And The
driver who wheeled Amlto ana Miss
rarrar from the wings 70 ,hc stage was
none other than q. W Bowman OF
Ohio. whose father i a Judge,
We've got the only supes' club IN
existence" said resident Singer. II,
means great things To the Columbia
men who cant AFFORD to pay for opera
and who can't afford 10 mss 1t, Oi
course the pay doesn't amount to much
twenty-five cents for rehoa-sah and
[ nifty cents for the performance; hut