Show IS MUSIC 1 MAD Ed Edgar r Mels Mets in Success Magazine America is going to lo the tilO extreme extremo In music so far as a financial extravagance a gance Gance Is concerned A According to conservative con eon I estimates uth thE people o of this country countr will wH spend Jend on this form o of amusement between Novem o cm tier ber bel 1906 and April 1111 1907 Included in this estimate is ig only the tite better cla clas s of music the comic operas musical mu mu- sled comedies and called so-called so-caled so lions tons of oC this type typo not being considered considered consid consid- ered ored at all al America has become music mad mad in its is desire to hear music It I does docs not n ah always s 's understand an and musicians whom It do does doc not always value rightly A musical obsession has I taken hol hold of or the the people and anti having the necessary mon money to Im pay the tao demands demands de do- mands of or those wise enough to realize realise the extent o of this new-born new craze weare weal we weare al are now hearing the best there thero Is in fri music at Europe's artistic expense As Asa a matter inciter of or fact there were not twenty really re fIst first class singers and Instrumentalists instrumentalists mentalists left in Europe on Dec t I 1 for tao almighty ht dollar Is a n patent attraction to even so impractical a a be be In Ing as ns the n er average c musician |