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Show OPERA SINGER GIVEN PRESENT OF FIRE WOOD Salary of 1,500,000 Rubles Buys Only Pound and Half of Bread ODESSA, March 25 Presents of wood, bread and meat or flour aro more welcome to Odessa's grand opera singers, than gold or silver. Among the gifts to the orchestra conductor of the famous play here at a recent benefit In hunor of his 25 years of service, was 25 pounds of firewood The singers receive .salaries, the best of which 1.500,000 rubles monthb, will pay for only a pound and a half of bread dalh Mnnv of the bcM singers hae left, hut there still are 35 principals, with a chorus and ballet. Several performances per-formances a week nre given. Many of the seats are free, nnd a box for six persons cost only the equivalent of 26 cents. Madame Mane do Ribas, coloratura soprano, has ontracted tuberculosis, but frequently slns leading role j She Is a granddaughter of the Ken-' cnl de I'.lbas who was delegated by Catherine the Great In 1794 to build a city here. The oice of M Kanchan well Known ns o lenor, has rccentl) chant-Sd chant-Sd to baritone, due to nervousness crowing out of lack of food. His salary Is lfji.000 rubles a da the price of a half pound of bread |