The Washington herald., 1917-03-11

SldlAO Will OO"CO hSdNS "hAlN ~ -
AS solution he suggests:
In the theater when the national
anthem is played the audience shouiu
arise Immediately and stand at "at-
tention," as they call it in the army,
until it is finished. Slapping the
hands together when "The Star
Spangled Banner" is played, giggling
and twisting and looking around are
all most Objectionable. Let's resolve
not to do it any more
The System of Gallo.
The success of Signor Fortune
Gallo, managing director of the San
Carlo Grand Opera Company, is due
to an uncanny faculty for selecting
his singers-his leading artists and
the public have now come to ex-
pect something new and startling
from him each season in the way of
fresh, sensational young voices. His
singers invariably have histrionic
talent, and have it in a state of high
and consistent development. He is
at all times closely in touch with
European and Italian grand opera
affairs; knows all the best artists;
where they sing; what their salaries
were and where they go when their
organization disbands. His foreign
agents acquaint him with all this.
Luck has not been a factor in his
remarkable success success that
places the San Carlo organization in
class by itself as dividend payer,
it being well-known and a matter OF
reliable musical record that this COM
pany alone, among all others, is the
sole organization that has declared
a dividend in America for the past
ten years. 1t can be said that Cal
los success is due, before all things,
to his shrewd and correct concep-
tion OF the real love for opera which
this country feels, and to his capacity
for business organization and his
sense of artistic fitness.
Stock Requisites.
There have been a number of sue,
cessful stock companies in the Ma
tional Capital, graduates from which
have later successfully forded the
brook of Broadway approval, but the
instances have been rare indeed where
the method of employing stocL
stars" has been successful, either in
this city or elsewhere.
Stock is essentially a teamwork
proposition. 1t is the symposium oi
the efforts of the actor, the manage
ment. the director, the author, the
artist and the stage manager. This
combination must be kept intact every
week despite the absolute changing
of the basic conditions of the offer,
ing. 1t is impossible to accomplish
anything that resembles unity when
one member OF the company is favor
Cd above all others even to the ex,
tent of directing the scenes. Such
conditions arise when the star" sys-
tenn is in vogue and almost invariably
the company is a failure both artistl.
cally and financially.
1t is refreshing to observe that thi:
evil does not exist in the present com.
pany of the Poll Players and as :
result the company has been success.
full from the start. The Poll man.
agement has gathered together =
company a. we'll balanced as it i.
capable. Every line Of business i.
handled by . player Of experience and
personality, and the ensemble form.
a machine Of such satisfaction thai
Polls seems destined to become ths
mecca for theatergoers during tn,
spring and summer.
Fresh From New York.
We have no monopoly of slant
titles for our theatrical productions
In London, at present. there are two
musical revues which bear the name.
respectively of Some" and Hoo,
La"
Comes . report from wilnissse.