Show fiN i I f IN VULGAR AMERICA i There i is 18 nothing not ln more remarkable ir in modern modem civilization than that a nation numbering upwards of and of or II a wealth so va vast t that It is the billionaire among the nations of the earth alas Jaa In Inmany Inman inmany many man eyes eye ey the vulgar esters eaters tei lass to the higher wan wane to of man than any our otto of J th the the many of or the compare comPAno small Final state of or Germany Gennan There I Ij Is j not lIOt ot a city dt of ot any pretensions preten lons In tn Germany that has bas not Its opera house where oM oW operas raS and new Dew German Grman operas Freud and Italian HAllah are rendered r for eight month months of r the ve yr ir to crowded houses and in inmany I inmany many cities dUes there are summer ummer theatres th where whre opera is ill given Riven fn during July and Au August gust Kuat for the t benefit of the tourist from rom smaller towns Who con constitutes the th these German publics that crowd the opera ra houses bouws night night for or eight month months In n the ear vear Tilt mart court society Not at lit all Th habitual opera o ra goers gOrI are the moderately well pl to do 00 middle class claa who entertain little litti dm dress hideously permit themselves 8 to tu grow fa rt and ugly v vet et t who possess a fin uin and crit critical ical loal taste in music the drama and th thoth other oth arts that should put our OU hol SIlo SO f i to the Mush The higher gl galleries Imel erl s of their th ir hOuse tJ Instead of being ing ovens enen are an iel wl ventilated and anti there then are only a number of standing rO I taken h These gallery galler scats and arc are within the m all of anybody not wholly a pauper and even en the balcony ballon seats eats favored by Americans and the fashionable natives native are only S X Xon J Jon on Wagner nights the parquet seats scats 12 Sl SlOn 2 On such nights night in tn I have hae seen lleen ee seven en stars stan in one OM cast cut the greatest actress s living b by the wa la way with a voice of pure gold bOld Pay Fa or Morena who has notes in her voice like Bosetti Knote Feinhals and Bender Bentler An Any one of or I these thew artists to say nothing of the great I conductor FeUx Felix ilotti Motti alone is worth the i price of admission All Ail 11 operas by other I masters are lire several marks cheaper one on could go to the opra every ever week of the year ear in Europe and anti hardly be a hundred dollars the poorer From an article In Life by Gertrude Atherton |