More chapters of opera : being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from 1908 to 1918 . great tenor was presented bythe directors with a diamond-studded cigarette case in ap-preciation of the fact that he had helped the managers outof a dilemma by singing six times in seven days—for $2,500a time! It is a pleasure to turn down this page of the Chronicleof Scandal in order to open one which tells of an idealisticendeavor on the part of the gentlemen to whom New Yorkis indebted for the maintenance of that proud and greatinstitution, the Metropoli

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More chapters of opera : being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from 1908 to 1918 . great tenor was presented bythe directors with a diamond-studded cigarette case in ap-preciation of the fact that he had helped the managers outof a dilemma by singing six times in seven days—for $2, 500a time! It is a pleasure to turn down this page of the Chronicleof Scandal in order to open one which tells of an idealisticendeavor on the part of the gentlemen to whom New Yorkis indebted for the maintenance of that proud and greatinstitution, the Metropolitan Opera House. Proud andgreat it is despite the follies committed by some of itsmanagers. Mr. Conried, as I have noted, had drawn atten-tion to himself before he became director of the Opera byhis production of German plays at the Irving Place Theater.By encouraging the interest in the drama which had begunto show itself in the universities he became almost a na-tional figure. He dreamed a dream of a national theaterendowed by the government and what he could not realizeon a country-wide scale he attempted to bring to pass with. Andreas Dippel THE NEW THEATER IS FOUNDED 33 the aid of the men of wealth and social prominence bywhom he found himself surrounded. He broached the ideaof an endowed theater to his associates in the Opera Com-pany, but the directors, after seriously discussing it, decidedthat it was not the province of their corporation to under-take the task. As individuals, however, some of themjoined a new organization which set the establishment ofan ideal theater as its mission. The founders of the insti-tution which gave New York what was first called the Newand is now the Century Theater deserve gratefully to beremembered, for the playhouse played a part, not ingloriousthough apparently fruitless, in the history of opera during afew years following Mr. Gattis advent. Their names wereJohn Jacob Astor, George F. Baker, Edmund L. Baylies.August Belmont, Cortland