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Description: Oscar Hammerstein's (I) London Opera House Identifier: morechaptersofop00kreh (find matches) Title: More chapters of opera : being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from 1908 to 1918 Year: 1919 (1910s) Authors: Krehbiel, Henry Edward, 1854-1923 Subjects: Opera Publisher: New York : H. Holt and company Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: a district heavy with the cluster-ings of theatrical traditions. It was called The Kingsway,was about equidistant from Covent Garden and Drury Lane,and debouched into the Strand. In this spacious street Mr.Hammerstein caused a beautiful theater to be built ofgranite and marble at a cost of about $750,000. Of themoney expended on the construction $300,000 came fromthe sale of the Philadelphia and New York interests, thatsum being still in his hands after he had paid off the mort-gages held by Mr. Stotesbury, similar encumbrances on theManhattan Opera House, Victoria and Republic Theaterswhich he owned in New York, and other debts amountingto about $150,000. With characteristic confidence and energy he began hisLondon experiment and had seen the foundations of hisnew building laid when he returned to New York in Jan-uary, 1911. Characteristic also was his reply to a reportersquestion: What do you intend to open the house with? With debts, was the reply; I always open a housewith debts. Text Appearing After Image: w m P O K wp< O o QO CO HW u o FAILURE OF THE ENGLISH ENTERPRISE 83 There was a suggestion that the English people might nottake him seriously and out came another exhibition of hischaracter: I will make them. It is not a question of what theywill do, but of what I shall do. The story of the London attempt can be only a shortinterlude here. The opera house in The Kingsway wasopened on November 13, 1911, with a performance of QuoVadis. Mr. Hammerstein was his own manager; he askedno English help, but called to his side two trusted, faithful,and capable servants from New York, Lyle D. Andrewsand Jacques Coini, who had been respectively treasurer andstage-manager at the Manhattan Opera House. At the out-set fortune seemed to smile propitiously upon the under-taking. On the opening night the receipts amounted to over$6,600, and in the first week to over $21,000. A winterseason of 15 weeks was given at which 12 operas were per-formed, and a summer season of 12 weeks from April 22to July Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Oscar Hammerstein's London Opera House
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Author: Krehbiel, Henry Edward, 1854-1923
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