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Show THREE OPERA COMPANIES INVADING NEW YORK NEW YORK. Sept. 1. Grand opera will return to the stage of the Man- 1 hattan opera house here September 20 after a ten-year absence, with tho I offering of Bizet's "Carmen' by th' San Carlo company. This will give New York three grand opera organizations organ-izations during th' coming jeason. the others being the Metropolitan uhd the I Chicago grand opera companies. The- original purpose of the Man- hattan was to provide n home for grand opera, but ten years ago Its owner, jscar Hammersteln. made a deal eliminating himself and his theatres the-atres from the opera field for a de- 1 cade. His widow acquires possession of the property September 1. marking I a return of the house to its former use. I Miss Alice Gentle, who will sing the I title role Curmen In the opening, was I to have made her New York debut In I that part ten years ago but the deal closing tha Manhattan to grand opera I Intervened, so that her appearance In New York In that role was deferred 1 a decade. . I fin |