The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-25
navy HUNTS TRUANT
| GOBS IN OPERA ROW
|,p,.ch Guard" Patrols Ways
Near Lexington Theatre to
Nab Sailors.
|rTREET DISORDERS END
|s.rman Singers Give Perform
ance Undisturbed by
Incidents.
|s7REEr DISORDERS END

Ao,en husky sailors with leggins
:. about the trousers Of their winter
|,-,,orms, with revolvers swinging In
|, .,.,,rs at the hip and a stick In each
s,b, hand, roved the streets around the
.r,nr.on Theatre last night. They were
...,.h guard," sent by headquarters
-. Third Naval district to scrutinize
- a Uncle Sans seamen that might
h., designs on German opera and to
:, them where they belonged II they
sIr, belong where they were.
:, n. course OF the early evening they
...,-,sd ten or twelve wearers of the
Hue TO the East Fifty-first street
~, station. There identity Of each
',r,b under detention was checked up
4. Oar as possible by use Of the tele-
/, Aop. and questions were asked de-
[,,n4d to indicate whether or not no
4 :, spnroached the theatre casually or
4. re hone of humping into u row or
.ing something II the night seemed
XuIl Also lHe DcdSh bNoiNS
[..vb. they would encounter a deserter
Il Two, for on Monday night, when the
[,ra began, thirteen men who had quit
\. navy without leave were rounded up
! the crowds milling in the ncighoor-
la Of the theatre.
| MIST of those taken to the station
k,g.s and questioned last night proved
|. Ne recruits on leave from a train
| ~ school. They were sent cheerful,y
4 their way after promising to avoid
n, vicinity of the Lexington Theatre.
Ia. who was held in the back room OF
Il, station house for further Inquiry.
[ay. 50 unsatisfactory an account OF
kImself that he was suspected of being
civilian masquerading as a COB.
Navy Looks After It's own.
Whenever a ship of the navy Is In
buy port and sailors go ashore on leave
1 beach guard" also is sent ashore In
he interest of order and sobriety. The
beach guard" is the navy police, cor
kssponding to the provost guard OF the
krmy. In foreign ports the authorities
Usually allow the beach guard" to take
kare OF American sailors who may run
koul Of local discipline. Similarly while
Il. police last night were alert for any
kgn Of disorder anywhere they per-
lifted the navy to look after its own.
khs was the arrangement with the
Navy Department. The army has not
! 4. sent a provost guard to the theatre.
Except for this novelty-and the beach
ruari had comparatively little to dor
be fourth evening of German Opera
passed off without incident. barring the
Ringing of few stones by few urchins
b the general direction of the police In
lexington avenue. north of Fifty-first
ktreet. Police protective arrangements
duplicated those of the previous nights.
Including men posted on roofs. A good
many soldiers in uniform. majority OF
rhom wore discharge chevrons. were
teen outside the police lines. which they
made no attempt to break. One of them
fomnlned bitterly. upon sighting the
beach guard" that the navy had gone
Into the business of protecting German
'pera. This remark was ventured out
81 the sailors hearing.
New Programme Cover.
The opera management had a new
'oyer on its programme. An advertise
rent OF opportunity to send food to Ger
many had been revamped. The line
lest hunger break the spirit which can
ions couldn't quelr' was one OF those
which had vanished. For the headline
Unsung Heroes" there had been substi-
uted Remember Your Folks for Christ
mas" The whole page had been altered
because Of protest from the American
Legion.
The name of the opera. Die Fielder
fnaus' (The Bait, by Johann Strauss.
az printed in German. A brother OF
10 Goritz. Kurt Goritz. was one OF the
I ngers. Otto was not In the cast. Mar
Farete Ober Arndt was. A new tenor
as Ludwig Eybisch. Louis Koemme-
fieh conducted. Everybody got lots OF
APPLAUSE The audience was the largest
nnce Monday evening.
There having been no disorder on
thursday evening and the bill having
ieel changed the attractiveness of the
entertainment in the minds of its
PATRONS had evidently increased. Harry
y Herts, the business manager. said
peVo persons were In the theatre. exclu-
Fve Of cops
Lawyers for the city and for the Star
Fpera Company will present briefs at
Eaoon to-day to Justice Giegerich of the
supreme Court, who is to decide whether
p not the city shall be permanently
fn!o!ned from stopping the opera, al
Lt1lested nv fha