Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-09-02 | Page 26 | Workers Buy Opera in Bulk

BUy I BUY OPERA IN BULK No Evening Costumes Worn and No Hats Workmen's organizations of ot SlovakIa cho cho buy bur opera In bulk for their members Just as they buy winter Inter potatoes or summer over over- overalls alls ails says Marjorie Shuler writing from Prague to tho the Sc- Sc Science roes ence Monitor 1 She h continues I Every year the thc II II Academy of ot Prague which was as founded by the Social Democratic Party bu buis q up the National Op- Op Opera Op Opera I era cra House for tor a pertain number or of nights With Hh the party parly funds mak mak- makIng making ing log up the deficit the tickets on these occasions are arc sold to the members at sery ery reduced prices There There was as on the last It occasion ot of thi this kind no double line of sol aol soldiers sol soldiers diers through th to foer cr as at the Paris Opera to Inspect the lie guests and make makl certain that ever evert one wore ore evening clothes But there were svere certain other oth r niceties to be I ed notably the tho separating ot of each guest from his 0 or her hat otI There was stag not one evening costume I In the house but neither scare ere there hats Thus were ere the pro pro-I pro pro- pro proprieties observed It Is Js a real ral peoples people's opera opra house hous this national tre In Prague It was started by tho the people them them- themselves seh selves es more than 50 60 years vear ago 0 the ItI I first fun fund l being collected out ont of the tiniest gifts from thousands ot of men mn and women It was as built otI to I gl gise the people opera and plas pla s In Inthe Inthe the he Czech language and that cus- cus custom cus custom tom torn has been continued But the works are often translations from other languages for Instance Wagner Vagner was gh given en during the Wag Wag- Wagner ag ner her Festival Festl and in 1916 esen Cn when hen the country was at war with england the Shakespeare anniversary anniversary sary was as remembered by the pro pre pre of oC all alt the Shakespeare plas a s Tho The Tho audience on this occasion was as composed of working people who ho throughout the winter peo- peo people peo people pIe who throughout the tho winter at- at attend attend at attend tend the lectures lecture and course courso Cr- Cr arranged ar arranged ranged for or them by their politIcal party The Tha performances of ot the opera which the thc attend are arc re- re regarded re regarded as ItS part of ot the e education which their party gives them and andr for tOl r which it bears part of or the e ec pense e pense The deficit from the man man- management management management of ot the whole hole house I is borne by the state funds and gifts girts from private primate ate Individuals the fund also being added to b by higher higher- priced higher prIced nights when opera Is given gl to what hat the management calls fashionable audi audiences