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Show BIG OPERA SINGERS I OElilDEMTf I EHsappointeH by Oscar Ham-merstein, Ham-merstein, They Are Now After His Money. DISAPPOINTING SALON H Another Bonaparte Disgraced and the French President Is Snubbed. By GEORGES DTJFRESN2L Special Cable to Tho Tribune. PARIS. Dec, 0. Jt la to bo nlncercrr hoped, for his own sake, that Oscar Ham-memteln, Ham-memteln, tho well-known opratia Im-presario, Im-presario, haa not left any money on d-posit d-posit in Any Fronch bank, for If ho haa Maltro Andre Aron. who la tho lawyer o jH a score of angry and disappointed mala and femalo opera slngora, frill suroly re hold of it. Tho Blngem all ego that they signed n-gagomenta n-gagomenta with Mr. Uammorstein, tome of thorn as far back m tho month erf June, to sing In hi new opera. houo in Now York thin winter. Tho theater vna to havo been opened about Noramber 1&, but the date was twlco postponed. Now tho7 learn that it may not open at aS this winter, and that thy will not b aaked to nlng until November, 1914. Not only French, but also Spanish and Hurl an singers havo beon engaged to the number of sixty, and tJioy allege that such a breach of contract would causa them anormoun loea. Demand Indemnity. M. VerxanJ complains that he wCI have to pay out of hla own pocket the in-d in-d enmity of 80,000 francs which he owes to the Opera Com quo for having an-nulled an-nulled his engagement in that theater. One Spanish prima donna expected to make 300,000 franca. Mile. Martho Chenal states that they woro to leave for New York on Nov em-bar em-bar IB. Then they were to put oft their departure until tho 22nd or the 29th, and finally until today. "Two darn ago I heard that wo were not to leave at all. and that' Mr. Hammerstein had put off tho opening until next year. This is very disappointing for all of us. and capoclaJ.-ly capoclaJ.-ly for tho email er engagements, for which the whole season may be loot. Has Mr. ITammorsteln really put off hla sea-son sea-son ulno die? I do not Know. At any rate, a collective petition is being made, and X. for my part, shall Insist on being paid tho indemnity Htlpulatcd for non-fulfillment non-fulfillment of contract." Salon Is Disappointing. Thoso who have visited tho Salon d'Autommo in the hope of seeing it char-actcrlzed char-actcrlzed by cccentrlo works of "art" have come away disappointed. Tho bo-called bo-called "wild boasts" nave diminished in ferocity, and although thoro Is a good deal of ultra-modern work. In the shape of pictures by Cublets, Ad&mlstn. At-temptlsts, At-temptlsts, Curvists and the members of the "Nothing-at-alllst" school, there Is ovldenco that Faulty is steadily return-ing, return-ing, although eome of tho paintings ore weird enough, in all conscience. Just as the presenco of ao many tor-olgn tor-olgn university students is being objected to, bo it Is complained that the moat eo-centria eo-centria pictures nowadays exhibited in Paris are the work of young foreigners who cut their artistic capers here. Whether tho native or the foreign prod-uct prod-uct Is less trammeled by the usually recognized convention is, however, open to Question. Bonaparte Disgraced. Another Napoleon has made hla aj-pearanco. aj-pearanco. and in a role which was cer-talnly cer-talnly unworthy of his great name. A woll-dreseed man entered a restaurant in tho Boulevard do Cllohy and ordered an expensive meal, whloh was washed down bv the finest wines In the establishment. lit, was treated with groat consideration 1 by the waiters and manager until he do-clarcd do-clarcd that he hadn't a sou. He was taken to the pollco station, where he gave tho name of Napoleon Bonaparte. It was his real name. Without domiciles profession, or resources. Napoleon was sent to the lock-up. Snub to President The city of Brest has refused to Invite tho president of the republic on tho oo- 1 caslon of his approaching visit to Brit- tany, and this is the reason wnyj .ureal has a municipal council ot which the Ho- H claHMa form tho majority. Thoy are In- dlgnant at tho Bcenes of enthusiasm that 1 accompany M. Pol n care ovorywhere he H goes. They have not boon accustomed to H that sort of thing, and will not encour-ago encour-ago it. Toulouse, Bordeaux, Marseilles and Rheims, Socialist strongholds, have already put their feet down, and the 1 mayor of Brest was "astonished" that H tho question was so much as raised. H I learn now that thn council general H and the chamber of commerce will ask 1 the president to como all the same, and H as M. Polncare nsks for nothing better H than to rnstko tho acquaintances of po- 1 litlcal adversaries, no doubt be will con- H sent- Thero never has beon a French M president so winning and attractive, and H sooner or later the wholo country will be H at his back.' 1 |