Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-01-28 | Page 2 | Gets 200 Kisses for Jazz Opera

GETS KISSES FOR JAZZ OPERA Composer Gets Only 44 Cents a 1 Week for His Ris Efforts BOSTON DOSTON Jan By 28 2 By Tho Press Forty Forty live dollars ollar and about bout kisses Is IsIDe s the IDe way wy W Franke Frank Harting Harlin Boa Bos- Boston ton Bos-ton ton on composer describes his share ot of roy from A Light From St Agnes Acnes the tho th jazz Jan opera open whIch brought him applause and nd wide nation att when hen produced In Chicago last month The composer lS 1 I hs his par par- parta parent ent ta here liere A statistician that he worked two years on the opera could figure that hI hta royalties were 44 cents cent a week ho he h said aid He pointed out however that thit money as coming In from other sources durIng the th conception of ot A AI Light From St Agnes Atnes and that considering It as ac produced only once one his share shar of ot the th c gate cat te wa was perfectly fair The Chicago Opera company which produced the tho th opera pays pas a performance he h acid eald Half ot of that had to so go o to my sponsors pon or and ten per pir cent c nt to my musical director That's That how I 1 got my 45 48 After Atter the premier ot of o the opera at ChIcago Marling was surrounded sur- sur surrounded rounded ur-rounded rounded by enthusiastic opera fans w who ho Insisted dIsplaying ot their appreciation ot of Ms his efforts effort by the route rout He H wee was wa pursued Into the th theatre lobby and and finally escaped to lo find se- se seclusion se seclusion In n his hll hotel rooms