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Show GRAND OPERA STARS DRAW SALARY CUTS CHICAGO. March I. A sut.stantlal salary reduction has been accepted by virtually every artist who thus far has signed a new contract with the Chicago Chi-cago Opera company for the next season, sea-son, G- K. Spangler. buslnew manager, announced. The new contracts. It was stated, called for as much as fifty per cent cut in tho fees collected during the current year by singers in the stellar group, while others were persuaded per-suaded to accept twenty to tw ent -five per cent. Exceptions had been made. It was announced In the salaries salar-ies of Mary Garden, artist-director, Mme. talll-Curci and I-ucl-ne Mora-tore Mora-tore an |