I PAY fOR APPLAUSE US o OR jET HISSED NEW YORK yom D Doc Dec c. c 11 An 11 An effort to blackmail singers at the Manhattan and ani Metropolitan opera houses It Is aM aJl has s been bern discovered by th the mana managers manager geN Mine Eleanora e of or Mr rr Hamm Ham- Ham m n's ns for forces e Is said paid to have o been one or of tho Intend intended victims According to the printed story Jim Ilme de do Cisneros was approached h by an Rn Italian a day Y or two t beloro her first appearance who ho proposed pro pro- posed nosed od to her the the- employment of n a cl All AU that sh she nc need d do doRB RB we to furnish Iho the members of C the claque with lIh tickets ticket and a a. small emall amount of ot monA mon monay y and an thy tiey would ee See that she aha obtained much op- op She ho refused to do this thill and was threatened with hisses from from the black black- mailers On On her her opening op night she wa was a enthusiastically ro received but distinct hisses were wera hoard heard from the tho audience nce Ono One of at the tho hissers her husband d de de- dares clares was tho the Italian who ho had bad tried to blackmail her Basal and of ot tho the Manhattan company are aro nl also alo o quoted as 1 assaying saying Sn they thay were wern approached h by members of tho the same claque who ho offered 11 them great grent applause If It they would pay for It It hisses If It thc they would not