In New York three blocks from the Metropolitan Opera House, where public donations were solicited this winter to assure another season, grand opera is being made to pay. The Metropolitan's best seats cost $7. Best seats for Hippodrome opera cost 99ยข. Metropolitan performances are put on by a long-experienced impresario who has listened to opera since his cradle days. Opera at the Hippo drome is the venture of two hard-headed theatre men who care nothing about music. But a few years ago when Cecil E. Mayberry was managing a movie house in Chicago he became interested in the money troubles...
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