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Show . WOMAN GET8 S4000 FOR STOLEN KISSES '' NEW YORK. .Feb., 21 Herr Conrled and tho Metropolitan . opera-house will ' no longer be able to' control the grand opera situation In New York without a hard fight. There has risen not alone a new Impresario, but a new opera-house,' and while hardily anyope In. New York has stopped to think of it, the new Manhattan opera-house on West Thlr-Jy-fourth street. Instead of being, ai 4ias been understood, designed as a Jiome for cheap opera, waa built at h ost 1 of over $1,500,000. and will bo tlpened with, a cast Including the factious fa-ctious basao. Edward De Resske. A further effort Is being made to sign his more famous brother, Jean iThe prices at the new opera-house, instead of being from $2 down, as were announced. 'In the first prospectus, are to be the same as those charged at tho Metropolitan opera-house. The new ' impresario la Oscar Hammerstein. It .is to be a fight for supremacy from the moment the new opera-house opens. |