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...central ticket agency, an echo of the erstwhile Central Ticket Office once nearly adopted, at Madison Square Garden, where tickets will be sold at the old-fashioned or box office scale. Supervision of this bureau is to be in the hands of William A. Brady and L. Lawrence Weber, prima facie evidence that there will be a strong effort to stump the speculators. Mr. Brady has long been known as a foe of this gentry; Mr. Weber recently proposed a feasible scheme whereby they could be laid...
...bonafide residence was established in the country of naturalization ; naturalized persons returning to their country of origin with intent not to return to that in which they were naturalized are to be considered to have renounced their naturalization, two years residence in the country of origin to count as prima facie evidence ot intent not to return to country of naturalization; women transfering nationality through marriage are not included within the terms of the Treaty, except where they make individual application for naturalization...
...years ago Geraldine Farrar, empress of Carmen, told a tumultuous and rather bitter farewell to the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Farrar-fans roared vociferously, "tossed their sweaty nightcaps in the air," and bore off such prizes as they could from the ensuing auction sale of the prima donna's stage trappings...
...return she was to have had her long desired American debut as an opera prima donna. She did sing with the Company in Detroit, Albany, New London. She sang the difficult role of the Countess in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, but under assumed names. Her appearance under her real name was to be reserved for Manhattan. In one Manhattan performance Mme. Walska was about to take her role, but stepped aside to enable a new singer to make her debut. She was to appear in the next performance of the Marriage of Figaro. But that performance never came...
...insurmountable advantage which English musical comedians and comediennes have over their American prototypes. They are all somehow bred to the idea that they are to marry royalty; they act the part. Conversely, there is an equal advantage our own players have over the English. American comedians, ingenues and prima donnas generally originate in the carefree substrata of society. They retain a certain impudent irresistible gaminerie...