| Show I qun rui r Busy Career 5 Ji n nn dw u u u u Col J II 11 who died In London on Thursday the tho hist had hada hadn a n wonderful career In tho thu world of ot music Ho Is Ii here ns the manager who brought us Gerster back In the tho eighties and gave us a taste of or opera o eru In the rendition of at Lucia which will linger with us ns as long as Oil memory The Tho New NewYork NewYork York Herald of ot recent date Llato contains the following Interesting sketch of Col career caleer Few faces Unit In New Ne York year litter after year en ns as the musical Benson clime came round lound w re Letter better known than that ot of Mr 1 J It n lUll Hla military ohe was over six Bis feet teet In height with a 0 complexion gray and blue oyes boro out the thc familiar appellation of ot the Colo Colonel Colonal nel nal which bo be carried as ns the com commanding manding of ot a n London volunteer regiment tho Tower Toner Hamlets and justified Ills his enrollment nt In the Twenty of ot New York Socially he ho a II merry mert raconteur full tull of an nn anecdotes and reminiscences of or and nn things operatic and who ui there thola thereof of or note with whom he ho had not been brought Into contort con tal In the tho course of oC bin professional ca caleer caI leer I er Ho was rarely In error ns liS to names 11 1111 es dates und circumstances of at forty and fifty years ngo aso could c spook of ot of ot Mario ns as readily as II of or und and Jean Jenn De Do fhe colonel Is II on reaching tho allotted span of life lito but he ho had crow crowded croWded ded Into Ills his seventy years moro more asso associations IS O with one branch of or art than ore lire granted to the great majority 1 He lIe was all but bul on tho He lIe made his hll In Drury Lane Inne Theater when lie he was only two to months old ohl A fire broke out In his home adjoining the theater he was carried Into Inlo the stage managers room dmund I K nn anti Mrs were rehearsing Heary The property baby uia nn absurdity nb Ienn could coull not keep keell his hi countenance Try n real baby bab mild the manager Hurley anti for tor nights tho tiny Maple non Wn acted the play Luby for tor twenty one guineas which he kept as a 0 HOU jou k When he hr was ten ne was put to In the orchestra went through nil all the tM grades He sang an all a 1 tenor but success not answering bin hIli hopes from his voice he ho tr tn Mr 17 n T Smith who a years before llie civil war broke out In the United I States WOR manager of or Her Theater In London In 1841 he started I on his own account as operatic In n the Lyceum Theater and In the next year took Her where ho reigned for tor seven levell years e rs tilt till the of at tho by fire firo sent him to Dairy Drury Lane until Her lIel was rebuilt In III ISH Mr 11 could boast of ot being tho senior impresario of or Europe by the th number of or year In tho service Five years previously he had celebrated ed ell his hi anniversary ns 1111 an orchestra leader In London In that he had been the chief t Instrument n carrying on Italian Billion opera pct Introducing illS ing tho inimical masterpieces which havo hoo now become classic and bringing before botor the tho London public tho chief singers of oC Europe l By un 1111 accident Colonel oll Ull missed ed bringing out She Sho Will was only In her teens teellA and her voIce olce hilt had I on heard III one In America On her arrival the United States latell with Mr Mio iho urged Mr to run tho risk of oC manug ment pledging herself Jocosely that sie would mane maie hili fortune for tur him li Ii had to go o to the continent to got get the th for tor n theater confirmed tie He IllS n day too tau and returned to that the tho future diva dl a had accepted an nn engagement tram from his hla great rival Mr loti dye MADE IDE FAUST A SUCCESS Tho Bohemian Girl was Colonel production So wall a er or opera If Ir nut not a moro url popular favor favorite ite The was Ins In Paris in Ir 1 1861 61 with An n opera oller called wIn be ln about from manager to manager lIon heard hearda a 1 performance at the tho Theater vas struck nt at Ith the beauty of or the music InUI and an secured it for tor Iou Ion In III the th publishers only too tuo glad Klud to let lel him have the work for nothing and promising n 1 bonus Lonus lifter after u cel number ot or perform performances ances The cast for tor Its performance ft Her consisted of or Milo Mile ns all Marguerite Mme Faust Las pier anil Val Valentine entine The oura even then ln Inn fallen rallen flat fin t to the hack back in patronizing a n new III work had not on resorted to n ruse ruso after buying up II tho tickets an nn announced that In of ut the thu enormous demand for sent seats the opera would bo repealed five times People they must go at n t nil all costs and aud nn enormous sucre i nl achieved IllS HIS SEASONS AT ACADEMY OF MUSIC l America was to become the stag sta 1 of u Colone on operatic venture vent first In 1378 llo took a 1 of at the tho Academy of ot Music ru lc and a nr for tor eight t sea Ilea seasons sons carried nn on Italian opera thel e etter After tho opening of or the Metropolitan Opera houie hou o In 1883 lS the rivalry of ot Abbey and proved disastrous to both and 1111 Colonel Maple N IOn n raw up UI the though he was WIS to tl return und Undergo somo Bomo other checkered fortunes till the collapse of ot his hili company at Boiton on his hla Ia lall t yUU lilt In I |
