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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1908
Page
13
Elisabeth Marbury promotes joint writing by American and French authors to create original, language specific plays without heavy adaptation. She cites Clyde Fitch and Henri Bernstein as potential collaborators and notes the benefit of preserving authors' intentions.
Telegraphed from Paris and Phnom Penh report King Sisowath of Cambodia was vaccinated as plague reached the capital. His son Duong Mathura opposed vaccination and died of the plague. The king urged four inoculations, prompting ministers and royal household to seek shots while the War Minister and a daughter in law resisted and were confined in the palace.
Paris reports that Monna Vanna will be staged as an opera with music by Henri Février at the Paris Opéra after Die Walküre. Maeterlinck insists his wife Georgette Le Blanc sing the title role, while Maurice Maeterlinck and André Messager clash over casting. Rudolf Ganz is reportedly working on a lyrical setting, currently in Zurich.
Gatti-Casazza reports from Milan that Frederick S. Converse's The Pipe of Desire will be produced at the Metropolitan Opera next season. It will be the first American opera at the New York house besides Damrosch's The Scarlet Letter. The production will feature English singing and careful attention to mise en scéne and costumes.
London reports on Beerbohm Tree's forthcoming Faust at His Majesty's Theatre adapted by Stephen Phillips and Comyns Carr. The production presents Faust and Margaret in direct dramatic form with Mephistopheles on earth in human guise. Mephistopheles will be played by Tree. Margaret by Marie Lohr. Faust by Henry Ainley.
Enrico Caruso, deserted by his wife, toured Paris with a friend at the Grand Hotel and Café de la Paix. He joked nobody would recognize him, while a waiter handled the test with a puzzled reaction. A confidant says the tenor remains heartbroken and hopes for reconciliation.
Plans indicate the New York orchestra may engage PHILHARMONIC for conduct and Safonoff previously reported for another season. Mrs. Sheldon sailed on the Kronprinzess Cecilie and will work on advancing her plans on arrival, already having increased the subscription fund.
Paris Aug 22 Paul Harper youngest son of the late William Rainey Harper president of the University of Chicago is to become a professor of Semitic languages He is twenty and recently graduated He plans to study in Jerusalem with the American School for Oriental Study and Research and travel to Constantinople with his uncle Professor Robert Francis Harper in Paris.
Milan dispatch details a singer once linked to Enrico Caruso, not his wife, who left husband and home years ago. Caruso bought her a villa near Florence, pursued American citizenship to aid a divorce and marriage, then followed her to London and Nice as the affair tangled with a chauffeur. The wife allegedly kidnapped her own spouse’s partner, adding a dramatic twist to the saga.
Mrs Meredith wife of novelist George Meredith conducted the Municipal Orchestra at Harrogate after the regular conductor fell ill. She led the program featuring two new works and several songs she composed herself in a notable public performance.
London reports Tolstoy is healthy and drafting The Law of Force and Love. The Pall Mall Magazine notes Tolstoy settlement at Christ Church England thrives with self sufficiency and crafts. St Petersburg notes opposition to Tolstoy's eightieth birthday celebration from government authorities.
Jane Noria, the American soprano formerly with the San Carlo Opera Company, has been engaged by Teatro Massimo in Palermo for next winter. She will perform Isolde, Werther, and Lohengrin and create the dramatic soprano role in the new opera Venezia. The theatre is owned by Florio, a leading Italian capitalist and head of the new operatic trust.
London reports that Mme Curie and Mile Gleditsch repeated Ramsay and Cameron tests claiming alkaline metals formed from copper salts under radium emanations. They could not confirm transmutation claims and say lithium or sodium formation is not established.
Rome August 22 Gonzalo de Quesada Cuban Minister to Washington visiting on emigration talks has declined the Cuban presidential candidacy. He will accept only if offered by both Conservatives and Liberals for national conciliation to advance Cuba toward revival. Pope received Quesadas in private audience praising Cuba's peaceful path and prosperity.
Reports from London and Amsterdam indicate rising diamond sales and prices as American buyers resume Fall orders. London merchants note increased shipments, stronger prices, and improved confidence, with Holland markets drawing buyers from Russia, Austria, Germany, and France.
Berlin reports the German Government plans to equip Atlantic steamers with wireless telegraphs to provide an official weather report service. The broadcasts will announce approaching cyclones and be sent to the Hamburg Naval Observatory.
Berlin reports intense interest in The New York Times Washington dispatch on China and a potential German American understanding. German officials see value in backing Far East cooperation with the United States while Anglophobe papers welcome a stance against England. Some observers urge caution on entangling alliances and note Filipino and Philippine attitudes as pivotal to East Asian developments.
London dispatch notes Anglo German relations as the week’s main topic with stock market steadiness over a proposed 100 million dollar naval loan. Optimists see Cronberg talks as a hopeful sign though the King may skip a Berlin visit if naval arms race fuels public opinion.
Berlin reports German relations widely discussed with Churchill's declarations welcomed yet a final naval reduction accord deemed unlikely by Admiralty sources. Germany hopes for patient elucidation of aims on both sides and voluntary armament reductions once England shows similar inclination.
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