The sun., 1918-10-13

Presidential Party Enters,
II was precisely twenty-five minutes
10 when the President entered with
Ms party and took his seat in the ]. p.
nnorsan box, Just opposite the stage.
Win MIN were Mira Woodrow Wilson,
MIS- Margaret Wilson. Mr.. and Mrs.
Francis b. sayer. Col. and Mrs. L. NJ
House. Miss Helen Bones and Joseph
b. Tumulty. his secretary.
All the Wilson ladies' were An blue
Mrs. Wilson. wore an elaborate low
necked gown OF blue with gold spangles
oodice ana girdle sparkling with rhine
stones, and carried a great fan Of gray
ostrich feathers and the bunch OF orchids
sne Is seldom without. Below the box
was draped the Italian nag. In the
boxes to. the right OF the President
which were hung with the American flag,
were the Italian Ambassador and
Countess Dolores Macchi di Celere, the
Consul General Of Italy Commenda-
tore Romolo Trftonj and Nine Tritonj
and n party Of we'll known Italians
Mayor Hylan. Miss virginia Hylan and
MR. William Randolph Hearst occupied
box near by In the same tier.
II was brilliant stage the President
saw when he entered, a stage set with
scene far more impressive than any Of
the play scenes the habitues Of the Met
ropolitan Opera House are wont to be-
hold. On the right were our own SOL
diers In their khaki, with Old Glory in
'front.' OF them, and on the left were the
famous Alpini OF the Italians and the
bersaslleri in their quaint feathered
hats. with the Italian colors.
Al the rear. gazed upon with adora-
ton by the many Italians in the house.
was the Banda Granatieri. the band of
the Royal Italian Grenadiers. Over the
stage hung single great green wreath
with the italian nag above It, backed by
the American colors. and ali the house
was decorated with the flags Of the Al
lies, those Of the United States and Italy
predominating.
Dem onAtration Lasts Five Minutes.
The demonstration when President
Wilson entered lasted at least five min
utes' and no foreign potentate ever had
q welcome like II, for there wasn't alone
the clapping OF many hands and shout
ins-there were heartfelt smiles on
every race In that great audience as II
rose to greet him, smiles which must
nave heartened the Chief Executive with
.ne sense or the nearness and reality Of
the peoples support.
was IN italian, some in good plain United
states. blared the notes Of Hail to the
CHIEF played by the Metropolitan Opera
House Orchestra, with Roberto Moran
zoni conducting.
Then the Metropolitan chorus filed
upon the stage. the bright dresses of the
women Towering against the khaki of
the soldiers. and they sang the Hymn
to the Sun. from Mascagni's Iris"
black figure. with his violin, and held
the house spellbound with his wonderful
rendition Of q Rondo Capriccio of Saint
Saens. He was obliged to respond to
several encores, and then came the Ital-
Ian Grenadiers, filing around to the front
with their instrumental, to fire the house
with that wonderful tripping war song,
with Its bouyant measures. the Garibaldi
Hymn. And then came Caruso.
Several martial Italian things the
great tenor sang, just to make the audi
ence know that 1t was Caruso. and then,
coming back for his 'steenth encore, he
made a mysterious sign to the orchestra,
and they burst into the strains of over
There" What a shout arose, how the
people clapped and yelled. Then. as they
stilled suddenly, Caruso sang the song In
English. and the people listened, with
now and then a good natured laugh at
his quaint pronunciation. and an enthu-
siasm that could hardly hold in for the
final rousing And we won't come back
TIL It's over over there!"
Caruso Runs or Stage.
Such a roar of applause there was
that the tenor fairly ran of the stage
and wouldn't come back. so all that
could happen then was the intermission,
ha
At least there might have been an in
PERMISSION IL Burr Mcintosh had per-
mitted. but he wouldn't. He had several
articles he was minded to auction off
for the blinded soldiers OF Italy, and he
had to seize the intermission or he
wouldn't have had any chance to put in
his oar.
So out he came, and people wondered
who was the big man with a aiming
bald head and khaki uniform cloth
ing his burly limbs: for few knew that
Burr had enlisted in the overseas
theatrical army. and that he was about
10 sail to cheer up our soldiers on the
other side. But when he began to talk
everybody said, "Oh. must be Burr Nc
Intosh." for it was Enthusiastically the
voice OF Burr-a bury voice, all right.
1t was somewhat unique collection
or articles that Mr.. Mcintosh had to
auction, and by the way it was Just a
coincidence that the man to whom they
were knocked down was named A. Porte
folia. A. Portefolia paid just $235O for
the lot, $1,000 in his first bid and the
rest in the final bid, which made him
the owner. The precise amount realized
from all the bids. which came thick and
fast from all over the house, and ranged
In size from $25 to $4,000. was $40,S50.
This, with the receipts from seats and
boxes. made the sum realized for the
blinded soldiers of Italy something over
$6l, 900. The expenses, Miss Elsa Max
well said. were very small, not more than
$4,000, so Queen Margherita's fund will
be considerably richer for last nights
performance.
Some OF Notable Articles.
But to go back to the articles auc-
TONED off--and Mr.. Mcintosh was so in
terested selling them that he almost for
got to tell what they were-well, there
was q photograph OF the original manu-
script of America" there was a lock
of Edgar Allan Poe's hair, which was
presented by Charlotte Daily to Robert
Underwood Johnson, the chairman of
last nights entertainment; there was
the picture of an airship which has
brought down many a German plane
(and the ace who sailed 1t, Lieut.. Parvis.
made a bow when Mr.. Mcintosh told
him to). and there were autographed
photographs of President and Mrs. Will