Show WHAT GRAND OPERA COSTS New Now Yorkers Yorkers permanent permanent and transient tran tran- paid paid two million dollars last year jear for Cor grand opera alone That does doeR riot not ol r really express tl ui cost either for Cor forit forit it Is the salary roll alone lone There were other expenses reaching to tremendous tremendous tremendous dous figures And yet et not an opera of all ll bought for tor that two and a a. half million was sung In a language which half llaU of the audiences could understand We Ve think Mr Savage who has produced produced pro pro- Madam Butterfly and The Thc Merry I rry Widow has the better view Here is what he said to the New York World We Vc have plenty plent of native singers but wo we have no school for their development We have no sch ol because we we have have not presented the classics in our own tongue and native Americans are forced to go abroad and learn a foreign foreign- language In which they must study grand opera before they arc are permitted to sing for their own people But years vez- vez very few years will remedy all this I expect to live JIve to the day when grand opera sung by imported artists in a foreign language on Broadway will be a tradition of the past and Theman the theman theman man who bu buys s 's an exp expensive seat at atthe atthe atthe the opera will understand when the singers are fighting and when the they are aro making love Which is good sense too Surely the tho people who paid for grand op ol opera ra raIn rain In Italian or In German would havo tJ enjo enjoyed ed the same in English quite as well English Is the language of the world I Sense demands that the music of the J world be sung Bung in the language which I most of the worlds world's people can understand under under- under under-I S stand p |