Show lOW Tiow WA AGES E PUT rUI MUSICIANS MUSICIAN ON SJ STRIKE IKE t. t Big Money Found in Jazz May Estrange Artists From Fr French Opera Forever PARIS Dec 11 By Universal ice Starvation StaMation Starvation wages for minor parts and musicians were alleged by strikers at the National opera who walked out some weeks ago In order to eke elee out their strike pay five members of ot the orchestra accounted accounted ac an- counted the tho second finest In the world played In a Jazz band In Mon Montmartre artre and made so much more cash than they ever made at the opera that they threaten to abandon highbrow stuff for fot good Strikers have revealed some curious facts about opera salaries In the ballet ballet bal bal- let for instance coal black negroes aro are paid five five francs a night but hued bronze-hued negroes negroes get Iet only three francs Red Indians are ae set down on the tariff at ten francs On the other hand an old man can be hired for three francs a night and the in the second act of Rigoletto are paid only forty cents as asare asare are the porters In Faust Officers receive the munificent remuneration of five francs about thirty-five thirty cents at present rate of exchange and members members mem mesa bers of tho the chorus are forced to sit on horseback are paid the same Musicians who manipulate such wierd instruments as the the and the tua aro are paid fifteen francs or per performance Harpists and others playing ancient string Instruments get 20 francs If It they ther play on the stage members of ot the orchestra pre are e paid 10 francs extra The wielders of ot the trumpets receive varying wages When they sound the fanfare In Aida they are paid 10 francs but when they have to manipulate manipulate manipulate ma ma- the trumpets for tor the king In Lohengrin the tariff Is 5 6 francs franca Inor more Flying fairies make I 5 francs a a. night and dragoons are paid an average of or 3 francs The Tho Th strikers asked for a a. standard wage for all nil and the employment only orly of French nationality It Is to this l latter clause that the operatic directors object for a majority of ot at present presen are Italian |