New-York tribune., 1919-03-11
German Opera
OFF as Sailors
Prepare Coup
Plan Arranged to Picket the
Theatre With Il Line Of
Wounded War Veterans

There was no German opera at the
Lexington Theatre last evening. About
noon ycstcrday Mayor Hylun sent his
secretary, Grover, Whaleu, to the the
atre TO tell Dr. Max Tlnter, treasurer
OF the producers. that there could be
TO performance, and not ong afterward
DR.. Winter announced that at the re-
guest Of Mayor Nylan the season would
be postponed indenitely'
The thousands OF uniformed men in
the city who had determined that no
opera would be given turned out to
make assurance doubly sure and
marched in several bodies i'm the
vicinity OF the theatre, near the Navy
Club, which is just above Forty-second
Street and Fifth Avenue, and down
town around the German Theatre at
Irving Place and Fourteenth Street.
They We're orderly and no arrests
we're made by the police about the
city, especially by the eco patrolmen
and plainclothes men who were under
the command OF Inspector George
Morris at the Lexington Theatre.
Vigorous denunclauons against
Mayor IIylan and William Randolph
Hearst were made by many of the
uniformed men. especially by those
who gathered after o'clock at Fif-
tieth Street and Lexington Avenue.
Hylan's Action Accounted For
Here, amongg the soldiers and sail
ors was tail, khaki figure. When
told to move on by one OF the police
men ne SAID, referring to Mayor Hy-
Ian:
He would not have stopped this
performance only he was sure that
f ne didn't VIC would have
Another man in uniform called out;
Look who ne has or his committee tc
welcome the soldiers William Ran.
dolph Hearst Why don't YOU invite
the Mayors committce uo here? That
would be a fitting and proper enter
tainment for them, but by God, il
won't 80 with Us, Tor We arc Amer
oans."
At demonstration at Fiftioth
Street and Third Avenue, not far from
the theatre, julius Hull, who said hc
belonged TO the 1l7th Infantry. ad-
dressed the men. He carried crutchos
and said he had been wounded sever
times. ITS now four months since
the armistice was s grcd, but want
70 tell you, my friends, that my
wounds haven't healed nor has my
heart healed. I'll fight now OF
crutches.'
Earl Benner, another soldier, who
said he had been gassed and wounded
at s.. Mihiel followed Hull and callco
the operas "an outrage
" hile the men we're assembled here
sevcral women moved among them aNc
distributed fFcpage pamphlet de
rourclng Hearst. The pamphlet wa.
signed by Georriana Hartman Owen
on the second page Of this pamphlet
was this paragraphs:
fa'ners mothers, wivcs and sister
OF those who fought In France, Of thos,
VINO died IN France, VIII YOU not uro.
test against the insult 10 o,,~ Ar.o,f
can manhood? Let every patriot ado
ms protest against this humiaaiio,
thal mas become national issue. Pun
nc opinion, the voice of the peoulo
Dut rnurmrr IN the bcginnin,,
gathered strength in 10 momentum
and thus becomes Il potent force"
Another paragraph read:
"t nave Df"n amazed to br tol,
that the Hearst papers we're among IN,
first 70 advocate 'prcparcdueHa' Thi
Is how they did IT, They began thoi
preparedness BY holding great ucac
rneet-sgs throughout the United state
The day set for the peace overture wa
Sunday, September 81, 1914 The meet
ing IN this city VIZ held on the even
ing of that date in the ooth Regimen
Ar'nory and 10000 people we're pres
enf'
Hearst Thanked by Germany.
Mention II Hearst was made in an
ether paragraph ia this way:
'"ln the Ncw York Tribune Of Ma.
Z, 1913, will be found an ardent tribut
paid by the former German correspond
ent 81 the 'Kiolnischc IcizunY' 10 Nh
Hesrst Ind - Mr Brisbane, its editor
IN chief. for having been 'auxjliafies