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OMAHA, NEB. .
Moving Grand Opera Is
Bigger Job Than Circus
Delicacy ' of Equipment Causes Constant Repair
Stage Hands Often Do Forty-eight Hours Without
; ' Food Call Circus Men Amateurs.
Presentation of grand opera from
any aspect is not child's play.
Watching it from feehind the scenes,
one-soon' learns that there is a large
body of specialties, never seen by
the public, to whom it is the hardest
kind ' of hard driving, incessant
work. It is bad enough when a
company like the Chicago Opera as
sociation s in a city for a continuous
engagement. It is worse when the
organization picks up and moves to
another place.
Heavier Than Circus.
Ask Harry Beatty, the genial
giant in. charge of the stage force of
the company's stage crew. He will,
'if he happens to have the time, tell
you that moving a circus from town
to towrf is a small thing in compari
son. For years the circus train has
been the, world's standard, the last
word in efficiency in the matter ol
moving.
According to Mr. Beatty, a cir
cus is not so much. . The men if
charge may be estimable citizens
and they probably are gifted
amateurs, but they would soon learn
that they were taking a postgraduate
course iii their own profession i1
they were with an opera compan-.
for a season or so. .
Twenty Truckloads. '
"We have one production Aic
alone," says Mr. Beatty, "whicl
fills three 72-foot .baggage cars, the
largest made, to the brim. When
it goes to the theater it makes 20
automobile truckloads. Twenty up.
and 20 back are 40. If the perfor
mance is repeated, 80. And this i
just one." '
When the Chicago Opera asso
ciation went from Chicago to New
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The Two
GOPELANDS
Side by side they performed at the '
recent concert in the music room of
the Hotel Fontenelle,, before an au-
dience of invited guests.
One tvas the living Copeland
The other ivas the Ampico
r It was a direct comparison of the
playing of the living pianist with the
reproduction of 'his playing by scien
tific means.
, Never has such an invention had so
, impressive a demonstration.
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Those present heard Copeland as he
will play for future generations.
The. records played at this remark
able concert are at our warerooms.
If you were not fortunate enough to be present
at this wonderful concert, come and hear Cope
land by means of the Knabe Ampico in our
-ew Piano Department. Recitals daily.
Hay den Bros.
Exclusive Representatives of the Knabe
Ampico and Knabe Pianos
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York in the last week of January
this year, it took with it 46 baggagi
cars of scenery. Four special trains
moved this one item. 'In order to
avoid all chance of delay on the
road all this went ahead of the
company.
Trains of Personnel.
But at 1:30 on the morning oi
January 25, just after the final per
formance of the season, three more
special trains moved out of Chicago
carrying nothing but people, the
members of the company, prlnci
pals, chorus, orchestra and stage
crew. One was routed over tin.
Michigan Ceneral, a second over the
Lake Shore and the third over th?
Pennsylvania.
This doesnot count a number of
other principals, who had been leav
ing Chicago all through the week
as soon as their last performances
had been sung. During the last
three days the organization's truck
men had picked up 400 personal
trunks in various part of Chicago,
all belonging to members of the
company, and had moved 1,200 cos
tume trunks from the wardrobe
warehouse. Incidentally the com
pany own four five-story ware
houses, each full of scenery, cos
tumes and properties, with a total
ilue of something lifce $1,500,000.
An Intense Organization. '
It is interesting to a degree to
watch the stage crew take posses
sion of a stage jn a new town pre
paratory to a performance. The
men come on a day or so in advance
of the singers and from the time
they reach the stage until the cur
tain rings up for the performance,
ill is intense, organized and special
ized industry. No time is wasted in
looking over the equipment of the
stage, for the company carries its
own equipment, not only scenery,
but lights and mechanical- devices
down to the last stage-brace.
"It did not take us long to find
out,' says Mr. Betty, "that very few
stages have rope enough to swing
our scenes. So now we always
carry our own rope, 20 coils of 1,000
feet each nearly four miles of rope,
if you prefer to put it that way."
Complete Light Equipment.
The traveling electrical equip
ment is as complete in all its details
as that used in the Chicago audi
torium. It is all of the latest and
most improved type, and inc'.udes
footlights, border lights, flood lights,
bunch lights, strip lights and spot
lights, together with dimmers, re
sistence coils and switchboards. Spe
rial crates hold the incandescent
lights, 2,000 60-watt lights and 100
1,000-watt lights. The old fashion
ed are lamps are entirely eliminated.
The ten bunch lights carry 1,000
watts, and the four spot light: 3,300
watts each.
The back drops or full-sized
scene used in the Auditorium are 68
."eet wide and 40 feet high. This
means 2,720 square feet of painted
ind fireproofed surface for each.
The company carries 47 such, a to
tal of 227,840 square feet. Some
thing over 200 set pieces of 156
square feet each, adds to the burden.
The properties, or stage furnish
ings, run to such numbers that the
services of 12 men are necessary to
handle them.
Constant Repair Work.
Stage equipment is fragile, easily
broken, soon defaced. The com
pany is obliged to maintain a plant
in Chicago in operation the year
around for the repair of old and
the manufacture of new material.
A visitor to the various workshops
will find 25 employes making cos
tumes, five who do nothing but
make armor, ten in the electrical de
partment, a like number in the prop
erty department, 12 artists and
they are real artists who construct
and paint scenery; 25 in the carpen
ter department.
Merely for the setting up and per
formance of an opera 100 men are
necessary behind the scenes, and
this does not count the stage man
ager and his three assistants, three
assistant conductors, the ballet mas
ter, the chorusmaster, the wig
maker and his four assistants, the
two wardrobe women and the eight
dressers. These are merely con
cerned with the singers, the artists
who appear in the focus of the
lights and receive all the applause.
The 100 are the stage crew, the elec
' tricians, the gripmen, the . flymen,
the property men and all the rest.
Often Miss, Meals.
1 They work themselves and their
associates unmercifully, for, once
fallen behind, it is twice as hard to
catch up. . It is no unusual thing for
the force to work 48 hours on end
without rest or sleep, merely catch
ing an occasional hasty bite of food
as it is brought to them on the
stage. Once on unloading crew in
the railroad yards in Chicago did
not have their clothes off for 72
hours. "But," said one of them
apologetically, "it was during n big
blizzard, and the storm slowed up
the work a little." Sometimes they
get a little "jumpy" in the nerves,
but they get the work done.
That is why Harry Beatty thinks
circus men are amateurs.
The Test
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A Painting So Perfect That It Cannot
Be Told From the Original.
A Re-creation So Perfect That It Cannot
Be Told From the Living Voice.
The
New Edison
The Phonograph With a Soul
The Only Instrument in the World
Which Dares This Test.
The Only Instrument in the World
Which Can Give This Result.
Let Us Prove It
SHULTZ BROTHERS
EDISON SHOP .
313-315 South 15th Street
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The Happy Ev6nings
Spent with music
are within the
reach of every
home. Do not keep
a piano 'you can
not play ex
change it for a
fine Player Piano
at Oakford's.
Look at These: .
$650 used CLARENDON 88-note Player Piano;
payments, $12.00 monthly; on sale
$600 used ELWOOD 88-note Player Piano;
payments, $15.00 monthly; on sale.
$950 shop worn HADDORFF 88-note Player, extra
. fine; payments, $20.00 monthly. .'
$700 used TROUBADOUR -88-note Player, could not
i be told from new; payments, $18.00 monthly. . . .
Then in Used Pianos:
$475,used KURTZMANN Upright grand, rich walnut tfJOOC
case, a great bargain; payments, $10.00 monthly. V"v
$440 used ANDERSON Largest, finest style, massive
ease design; deep, rich tone; payments, dQ T C
$8.00 monthly ,
$450 used CLARENDON Upright Grand, looks like d01A
new and good as new; payments, $9.00 monthly. Iw
$525 used HADDORFF Upright Grand, latest style, a
magnificent piano, wonderful tone; payments, fcv1QC
$12.00 monthly iptOO
In Brand Nw Piano and Players Wa Would Call Your.
J Special Attention to '
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HADDORFF, STROUD. CLARENDON, WHEELOCK, Etc.
- We are sole agents for the DUO ART PIANOLA and the
NEW VOCALION PHONOGRAPHS.
$425
$495
$750
$575
DUO ART
PIANOLA
If possible call at our store and hear the new
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figures at its lowest cash price. To those desiring time payments
the only difference is 6 simple interest.
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Omaha Auditorium
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ChicagoGrand
Opera
v Presenting
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October 20th
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"LA BOHEME"-
October 2 1st
i Alma Gluck as Mimi
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Florence E. Whiteside, in care of Hospe
Music Store, and must contain remittance,
including nar tax and. self-addressed, .
stamped envelope for the return of tickets.
If return envelope is not enclosed, tickets
vill be held at box office until called for.
PRICES:
Single Seats: - $5.00, $4.00, $3.00, $2.00, $1.00
Season Seats: $9.00, $7.00, $5.00, $3.00, $2.00
War tax of JO per cent must be paid on
full value of season ticket.
Box Office at Hospe's Music Store
in construction, finjj
miration and deligj
to play some ligl
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rich, sweet tone, and
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