The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-25

states; Mr.. Logan, or the United Stt
NJ. Aron, OF France.
OF believing that everything | might
do would turn out well, and there,
as your Shakespeare said, Is the
rub" But 1 may he forgiven for
believing In my name since | was
stu very young and at this time
had married the woman l loved. My
wife is Nine. Charlebois.
The troubles are coming, however.
Do you see the thick. black clouds
gathering? / do, but | didn't when
In 1912-lG13 ] became fun nedged
lmpresario with the san Carlo Grand
Opera company. In that season we
sang whenever VIC could get time and
chance, we painted scenery our
selves we wore Cheesecloth cos
tunes, we were often near stranding
but we held out, we kept together
and at the end OF the season we had
lost $1,000.
Was to keep on? Sure. I said to
myself: What does a trifling deficit
signify? | have lived well, have pro-
Vided for my wife, have kept the
company at work. Is this not much
for Fortune to do, the Fortune who
but few years ago possessed y
cents?
So it was with high heart than
on borrowed money - money
squeezed out of hard business men
who cared not damn for opera
that we set out on our second sea-
son. | knew the country well. and
for time | gambled on a sure thing.
my old friends who had backed the
Banda Rosa. They gave us their
support all over the country and, be-
sides, my proposition to bring over
LeoncaVallo in 1913 went, bluff
though 1t was, and the money I made
on this side tour | pumped into the
San Carlo, which was dear to my
heart, For three or four years we
toured the country, making money,
breaking even.5 losing money, ac-
cording to conditions which nobody
could control. In the FLU" year. for
example. our losses amounted to
what was an enormous sum for a
private enterprise, to no less than
$4,000. But for the following sea =
son | had contracted for $50, 900
worth of scenery and launched the
Gallo English Opera company for a
tour OF 40 weeks. L'audace, Paudace,
toujors Paudace. is motto ! believe
In. and so far it has carried me
through,
The dark times when, figure as
one might, travelling expenses, sal
aries advertising. could not be
drawn from a depleted trea sury and
TO go on seemed futile. there came
TO my relief the abundant cheerful
ness that had always kept me from
thinking starvation is a possibility.
II Isn't. Nobody need starve; no
body need ever want If he is con-
tented with a slice OF bread a spoon
nj gNf ,,,t d. 1. ,
entertains the thought of failure
which falls. l have said to my peo-
pie who go on before a half house:
Sing, my dear; sing TO the farthest
corner and fill it fun OF melody The
passerby in the street will hear it and
tomorrow he viii come to hear bet
ter" ~
BY this time | had learned your
American game of poker. Fortune
is natural gambler enough to ap-
preciate that game; he can wear the
poker face. In the very year l last
referred to the chance came TO me
to direct Pavlowa. Had | not pos
sessed the gambling instinct l would
not have dared. l did dare, and
under my management this great
artist had her greatest money season,
her share of the profits amounting
to 100000.
Yes, Fortune can look in the eye
the artist who commands a great
salary and an impossible guaranty
and Fortune can promise him these
things out Of funds not yet existent
out OF profits that still have to be
made. I
nave this eXCuse---the best. in my
opinion, that could be made for an
entrepreneur with sporting blood
that with luck / have been enabled
to carry out most of these promises
one winning had has paid the losses
OF the other. For three or four
years l kept the San Carlo out OF
New York, losing money with II
sometimes and making money at the
same time with outside ventures and
with the English singers. These
years / have used to advantage, Gull
ing out singers who did not please
my audience, placing under contract
others in whom | hoped much.
Problems Of Capital and labor.
Hard shedding was our fortune
during the last years OF the war, but
the sled was by this time made OF
good and tempered steel and it en-.
dured With danger my spirits rise
and then more than in smoothly
prosperous times embarked on
] NlltlAlA tns ilN ~ ~ was AiltiI 4 u lOEttF
my rubicon, the Harlem river, and
| invited audiences TO come to tbs
Forty-fourth street theater first, and
second to the Shubert theater to hear
my singers. Then for two seasons
we were at the Manhattan Opera
house and now, the sixth in New
York, sees us at the Century.
They say in my country that when
a man falls into the delusion that all
will succeed in his hands he has be-
gun his downfall. / am going "a
smile in the face Of the proverb, foI
do think that New York is friendly
toward us. Believe II? Nonsense.
/ know II.
Fortune Gallo still. havent
changed since the time / earned my
| first SO week. II kept me and that
I is all / need for myself-freedom tC
| live and TO work. l am proud 10 fee
| that they have made me a knight ir
/ Italy but proudest to realize that
| first have made opera at popular
| prices self-supporting. How have
done this? l will tell you in a few
| words
have from the beginning nad,
| the pubic m. board NJ directors II
is their taste | study, II is their wants
/ | supply The great public want
! music, and good music. They know