Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-20
BEATTY STARS ON
MOVING DAYS OF
OPERA COMPANY
Thirty-FtUe Carloads of Bag
gage Precede TIUO Special
Trains Carving Artists.
BY sPEARMAN LEWIS.

CHICAGO, Jan. 2O.-Being an opera
fan, you are doubtless familiar with the
roles of Mary Garden. Muratore, Edith
Mason, GaIn-Curc and Schipa; you
ow that Giorgio Polacco conducts a
matchless orchestra, and that Jacques
Coini stages the brilliant operas that have
thrilled Chicago for the past ten years.
A new star enters-he enters at just this
time each year, in the person Of Harry
w. Beatty, technical director of the Chi
cago Opera Company. He has been with
the company since its formation eleven
years ago. In the "drama" Beatty would
be known as stage manager.
His present problem is one OF trans
porting safely from Chicago to New York,
from New York to fifteen principal cities
Of the United States, including those on
the Pacific coast, and back to Chicago,
the Chicago Opera Company.
MOVING JOB OF
VAST PROPORTIONS.
Beatty must move the scenery, proper
ties, electrical equipment and wardrobe
Of Twenty-Five operas; $50 people, in
Guiding sixty-two stars and principals,
seventy orchestra men, eighty eight Choir
listers Of both sexes and the entire house
and stage stafI-everything from the box
Office to the new silver curtain.
Thirty five baggage cars will have gone
ahead TO New York before two special
trains leave the La Sale street station
at o'clock Sunday morning Jan. %,
for the Manhattan Opera House, New
York. when the company opens Monday
Jan. %, with Muratore and DAlvares in
Samson and Delilah.'
The first section of the two special
trains departing Sunday will include the
artists, conductors and managerial staff.
Mwhere will be eight sleepers, three bag
age cars and a diner on the first sec
ton. The second section leaving a few
minutes later carries the chorus, Orches
ira, ballet and stage staff. There will be
nine sIeepers, three baggage cars and
diner on this section. Both dining cars
will operate continuous service TO New
York.
Because Of the impossibility of reaching
New York Sunday night in time for the
company 10 find hotels or rooms, the
trains will be deliberately slowed up to
reach New York at I 30 a. N. Monday.
Each passenger on the train Will re-
ceive from Mr. Beatty a diagram showing
the exact sleeping space allotment
whether drawing room, compartment sec
ton, upper or lower.
TEMPERAMENT AND
PULLMAN'S PROBLEM.
And therein lies one Of his greatest
problems. for nowhere in an opera com
pany does artistic temperament display
itself to greater enthusiasm than in sur
yeying the aforesaid Pullman accOmmo-
dations There are some who must have
drawing rooms some compartments, and
there is even a very definite distinction
between what grades of artists and must
clans shall sleep in an upper or q lower.
There is also slight matter Of $50
wardrobe trunks ana 1900 personal
trunks which must he unscrambled at
the destination in sufficient time to reach
the theater and the various hotels on the
same day Of arrival.
Beatty takes with him the following
lieutenants: In charge Of properties, W.
B. Young; scenery, II. S. Jefers; cleo
.~Arical equipment. Edward II. Moore;
b ardrobe NJ Lanzilottt
- And with these few details on his mind,
Beatty draws himself mp to his six
feet four and calmly assures Mary Gar
den, general director. that the curtain
will go up at at the Manhattan Opera
House and that he Beatty, viii have a
right good time en- route. And Miss
Garden will lay you the conventional
to 5 that Beatty makes good.