Show PARIS HAS OPERA IN EVENING NOW 3 PLAYS WEEKLY Another Step T Toward award Return Re Re- turn of pf fi Normal Informal Condi- Condi lio lions ions s Is Seen Cb i Je to The Tel PAm PARISi Dec Thie The opera which opens this Saturday is taking another step vard to a return to the normal It remained closed during the first year of oC the war gave matinee performances twice a week during the second and int intends n s to give only evenIn evening even even- In tag ing performances this season Three performances will be given ghen weekly Thursday Saturdays and Sun Sui- days Some revivals are promised such via as l Henry VIII Sri Sylvia and some new works new to Paris that Is as Le by Gabriel Faure Les Indes hides by Ra- Ra menu meau Las try Granados the Spanish composer drowned when the Chic Sussex was torpedoed and Le by br Alberic Magnard The opera will wiH observe the regulation to which all theatres are bound and will finish by 11 o'clock which will mean that some operas will be necessarily shortened Ordinary clothes will be worn by the audience the obligatory dress clothe being postponed until the theda da day of victory has arrived Ordinary theatre prices ces will be charged balcony and orchestra stalls and seats ats in the first bo boxes boses s 11 francs with 10 per cent extra for the tile poor tax Seats may be booked without extra charge Honors Two War Victims M. M Roache tHe new director of the Opera m itt his choice of ot new pieces has sought to do honor to two victims of I the war the Spanish master Granados who had Just returned from New York when lie lost his life Ufe and Alberic AlbericI Magnard I The French composer belonged to the Wagnerian n school and wrote his lis own I librettos Several everal of ot his symphonies I and sonatas had been given by the leading Paris orchestras and he lie had written three Important lyrical dramas Yolande and Berenice The first was given twice and caused much debate as to its merits Guer coer dates from 1904 and is a a. great philosophical drama having Truth Beauty Kindness and Suffering among Its characteristics as well as certain human protagonists a worshipper worshipper worshipper wor wor- shipper of Ideas young joung and andI the beautiful Giselle I The action passes in the middle ages in a free town In Flanders has Just died young youn beloved and amI fa fa- fa inous In his second lire life he believes that Giselle will remain faithful to him and that his friend will continue continue continue con con- his work and keep lep his memory honored He obtains permission to re return return return re- re turn on earth arth and finds that he has been betrayed The people tired of the i ideal eal republic that he has instituted have appointed dictator and Giselle has become mistress He returns to heaven with pride driven from his soul Consoled by Truth Truth consoles him by prophesying that in time all that he has worked for will come to pass The fusion of races and langua languages es will give man the cult of peace His work will conquer misery misery mis mis- mis-I mis ery his science banish pain The new I age will come Sleep In peace Hope His last work wont Berenice was dated April 1909 1900 It was given at the Opera Opra It is a long love duet between between between be tween Titus and nd Berenice ending in her sacrifice destroying hed lied beauty by cutting off and ad throwing into the sea her marvelous head of hair Alberic Magnard lived at the Fontaines Fon Fon- tames manor house at Baron s some ne eight miles from Senlis and was there when war broke out He was then 49 and a fine strong man He wished to volunteer but was asked to wait He returned to his country house where he met his death under circumstances which his wife has thus described On August 23 my son flon who had been to Senlis came back about midday to tell us that everybody was leaving an and that the town was being barricaded We read with stupefaction in the papers papers pa pa- pers that the Germans were scattered already from the tile Aisne to the My Iy husband determined to send us away but he be was absolutely confident that the Germans would be driven back and would not come as far as our house Germans German Reach Baron On September 2 some som of th the German German Ger Ocr man army reached Baron with a band at their head My husband decided what he would do and felt that his death was 55 near Next morning a warm arm sunny day my son was fishing in the pond when he heard a noise and saw about a hundred German cavalrymen on the terrace He lie w was s seized with fear and thought of swimming over the River Nonette Then he overcame his fright and showed himself The Germans took his fish from him and tied him to a tree They drew near the house and three times summoned my husband to surrender surrender surrender sur sur- render but obtained obtain d no reply My son distinctly heard a shot fired tired by the soldiers They explained afterward after that it was an accident and was not fired at t my husband When he heard this this' shot and saw his son fastened to a tree my ray husband his Ills revolver twice and I two soldiers fell The Germans then b by order of oC General von Kluck who was present I fired volleys toward the window from I which my husband had fired General von Kluck then ordered them to bring straw from the barn bam pile It in the kitchen and set fire to it While this part of the house hous was b burning the soldiers pillaged the rest My son Myson son saw them loading on a cart the pictures among them works of Boucher Pater later Oudry Courbet and Ribot old silver plate furs firs nd rd lace lac and a Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross sheet was thrown over the load The manuscript of was stolen stolen stol stol- en and many many oth other r. r My ly son who knows some German heard von on Kluck say after the fire I was well lit If that Is the son or stepson stepson step step- son son or any ono one of the tile family he shall be shot My son kept cool and said that he was the gardeners gardener's son Some witnesses were brought from the village and my myson myson myson son said to them I 1 am the b lS sOn n of the gardener I am I not noti They d declared it was so and he was allowed to go free The fire burned itself out in six days and Mme Magnard l herself undertook the painful task of searching for her husbands husband's remains in the 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