Show RAND GRAND T RAl OPERA IS 2 STRONG IN NEW r ir YORK YORI L These are arc great days das for gran grand opera oper 1 in New ew York For a a. five ivo weeks weeks' season season Benson beginning last ast Monday night nigh t at it the Lexington theatre the tho Chicago Chicag a association Is presenting twentynine ty nine length full operas s six sl ix short shor t s peras for bill bUl com combinations combination g 8 tid I two new ballets Tho The list of op op- op irs irs' r include Norma Debussy's Debussy's Debus Debus- 1 sy's Bys Pollens and Melisande Messa Messa- gers ger's Mme Ravels Ravel's S Espa ole Leoncavallo's Leoncavallo S del delre dc Tre lre re R Re lie the new American mc lc opera Ri Rip P van an oy ny d ae uc Koven I Verdi's Verdis Tho Tim Masked Ball DaIl etc etc ate Tho casts include such artists as Rosa Ralsa Raisa Alessandro Dolci M Myrna rna Sharlow Virgillo Virgilio Lazzari Emma Imma Noc Noe Mary Garden Alfred Mas Hector Maria Marla Claessens Dora do PhillIppe Gustave Gustavo Constantino Constan Constan- tino Nicolay Tamaki Charles Fontaine Curci Dorothy Doroth Follis Edmond Yvonne Gall Galt Eduard Desire Defrere Tetta Ruffo Maria arla Forrest Lamont Lodovico Lo- Lo dovico Oliviero Evelyn Herbert E Ed- Ed Iward I- I ward jard Johnson Georges Geors-es and others In Jn the meantime at the Metropolitan Cleopatra's Night by Henry l K Hadley Had- Had ley Icy will have its premiere to bo be followed fol Col- fol- fol lowed by Lo Coq dOr d'Or La fLa Forza del Destine Destino Faust The Tho Bluebird Oberon n II II Tabarro II n 11 Trovatore etc etc with casts In IncludIng Including In- In eluding the following Frances Alda AIda Orville Harrold Jeanne Jeanno Gordon Mario Marlo Tiffany TIfany Vincenzo Han Millo J Picco Louis Louts DAngelo Mme Easton Caruso aruso Scotti rL Mme Mme me ii Mme I Egener Farrar Ime Ellis Mine w mc Berat Cou- Cou Margaret Romaine and others But New York is big enough h. h to absorb ab- ab lbs s rb both organizations and crowd t clr houses and fill their pockets a and d yearn earn OBrn for more moro grand opera opera and and why shouldn't it with all Us its wealth Its pleasure loving instincts and its ita pop pop- laUon of ot souls mostly spenders to sa say nothing of the tho itinerants ants 4 who go there thore to be amused I |