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Mr. Caruso's Adventures Calendar for the Current Week His Twenty-fifth Rirthtlay in Opera; A Dress Re¬ SUNDAY.Carnegie Hall, 8 p. m., concert by the Philharmonic Society: 8:15 p. m., concert of Hebrew music by Cantor hearsal in a Kanewsky. Aeolian Hall, 3 Small ItalianCity; The Demon Rum p. m., song recital by Emilio de Cogorza. Metropolitan Opera House. 8:30 p. m., opera concert. Hippodrome, 8:15 Him He McCormack. p. m., concert by John Plays Sorry Trick; Earns Amusing Title Great Hall of the College of th.* City 01' New York, -t free recital p. m., organ by Samuel A. Baldwin. Provincetown Playhouse, 3:3o p. m., song recital by George Reimherr. By Grenville Vernon hardly stand. My host realized the Enrico Caruso colcbratoel on March situation, and thinking that the air MONDAY.Aeolian Hall, 8:15 p. m., violin recital by Maximilian would do me he led Rose; 22 the twenty-fifth anniversary of his good, me onto the Metropolitan Opera House, 8 p. m., French opera, "Thais": Park The¬ oporatic début. This is the' bolel state¬ quay. Rut the salt air only made me atre, 8 p, m., English opera, "The Bohemian Girl." ment ot a fact, but about that fact worse and I stumbled from one side to the other in how much inoperatic history gathers! truly glorious fashion. TUESDAY.Aeolian Hall, 8:15 p. m., recital of Beethoven's sonatas for Alive in the Suddenly a man passed us .it was our pianoforte and violin aiul heyday of his powers, by Bauer and Thibaud; Carnegie Hail, 8:15 p. m., Caruso is a Like all the impresario. My host now lost his violin recital by Elias Breeskin; Great Hall oi already myth. hend Cooper Union, 8:15 universally acknowledged great, he is completely. My impresario hjul p. m., concert of Polish, Czechish and Sloveniun folksongs; Park The¬ lifted above the petty jealousies of seen me drunk and he would blame my atre, 8 p. m., English operetta, "Robin Hood." '.hose who otherwise might be his host for it. I was dragged into a café and then host insisted on rivals. As a tenor he stands quite my pouring WEDNESDAY.Aeolian Hall, 3 p. m., song recital by Josef down throat a stiff, Shlisky; Great proudly without a peer. Of such as my glass of hot Hall of tho College of the City of New York, -1 p. m., free organ grog. He had recital the names of Jenny Line! and Grisi and gone crazy with fc;ti by Samuel A. Baldwin; Metropolitan Opera House, 8 m., and had taksn this p. "Cavalleria Patti, Mario and de Reszke, Faure and method of sobering Rusticana" and "Le Coq d'Or;" Park 8 p. in., "The me Theatre, Bohemian Maurel will be the name of Enrico up. The result was, of course, that Girl." I Caruso, one of the few names in became dead to the world and had to oper¬ bo atic history destined to remain, though carried home and put to bed. This THURSDAY.Carnegie Hall, 8:30 p. m.,concert by the Philharmonic Society; time will long have silenced his voice. was nt 2 o'clock- the dress rehearsal Aeolian Hall, 3 p. m., violin recital by Roderick White; .Metropolitan was at 8. Meanwhile I slumbered on, Whether or not the adulation Opera House, 8 p. m., French opera, "Le Prophète;" Park Eight o'clock arrived and the Theatre, 8 aroused this one has had a public p. m., "The Bohemian Girl." by figure with It, but I arrived not. fif- benef'tcinl effect upon opera in New Eight teen, 8:'t0.still no Caruso. 2:30 York may bo a mooted question, but if Despair FRIDAY.Carnegie Hall, p. m., concert by the Philharmonic Society; tears, the impresario making explana¬ 8:15 p. m., first concert of the peace celebration it has not it is the fault of the public tion, the by tho Oratorio and and not of Mr. Caruso. Mr. Caruso barytone questioned, confess¬ Symphony Societies; Aeolian Hall, 8:15 p. m., pianoforte recital by Marie ing. Five minutes later I was has never false to the pullec Kryl; Metropolitan Opera House. 8 p. m., Italian opera, "Madama proved gifts out of bed, dressed and hurried But¬ which are has the re¬ to th« terfly;" Park Theatre, 8 p. m., "The Bohemian Girl." his; ho realized the of his he has theatre.but, alas, wine was stil sponsibility stewardship; with me. striven always to give the very best SATURDAY.Carnegie Hall, 2:30 p. m., concert for young people by th« 8:30 that is in him. In an age of slipshod "The Fox of Scotland" Symphony Society; p. m., concert by the Philharmonic Society ho has retained Aeolian Hall, 3 p. m., pianoforte recital by Mart»- - 8:15 declamatory singing "The performance an hou Servine; p. m. the of bel canto. At times the nearly concert by tho Swedish Society, St. Erik. V,'. graces late, the audience angry, I was hustle« .lington Irv.ng High insistence has forced him into School, 8:15 p. m., concert by tho New York Chamber Music public's onto the stage. I knew my Society. of music, bu Metropolitan Opera House, 2 p. m., French ".Mireille." parts unworthy his powers, where¬ I could not pronounce words. Sud opera, Park those to my Theatre, 2 p. m., "Robin Hood;" 8 p. m., "The Bohemian Girl." upon he has raised parts levels denly I came to tho words 'Sorti delli Brooklyn above those given to them their Clef Club Concerts Opera House, 8 p. m., Italian opera, "La Forza del Destino." by Scottia,' and what I sang was 'Volpi composers. Essentially a lyric tenor della Scottia'; instead of and supreme in the music of the old singini Resumed at the 'Coming from Scotland,' I sang 'Fox o Italian school, he has essayed dramatic Scotland.' Then pandemonium broke Recitals in Newark Duncan Dancers at roles so that even in these Selwyn To-lSight successfully I'He's drunk, this fox of Scotland! A series of afternoon no The Clef Club Arabian eight Sunday he has had equal of recent years. roared the audience. I stumbled of Nights will Young People's Concert! But it is in Donizetti, in Verdi, in resume their recitals at the Broad Street Theatre, the stage. The impresario tried to ex engagement at the Selwyn On Saturday afternoon, March 8, In Puccini, thai he has been unap- Newark, will begin to-day under tho plain that 'Signor Caruso was sufferin; Theatre to-night, which was inter¬ Carnegie Hall, will be held the last of proached, or perhaps unapproachable. from a sea voyage.' (Yells of derision. management of Joseph A. Fuerstman. The oldest have assented rupted last week because of a previous the season's Symphony concerts for oneragoers I went home and to bed, and the drcs concert which will that in such music the mellow¬ booking at this house. An entirely new The to-day, begin young An added golden rehearsal continued without a tenoi people. attraction will ness of his voice has never been programme will bo given as follows: at 3:30, will be given by Miss Sophie the The newspapers the next re A Musical be Isadora Duncan Dancers, who If the half-baked tenors of morning Celebration PART i contralto. Other artists will equalled. ferred to my and rt Ambliti Braslau, will in the would their stentorian indisposition, Nights.Orchestra participate an unusually attrac¬ day forego marked sarcastically that 'it is to b Of Victory anil Peace Horn».William Patrirtk by Guiomar Novaos, Mabel Garrison, tive take a few weeks off and Cable danco programme, the number» outpourings, hoped that Signor Caruso will take n Son»...,.String Orchestra Leo Ernestine Schumann- sit at the feet of his his At Hall Moanlo* Trombons....Emanuel Cassnmnr« Ornstein, of which are Cluck's suite from Nemorino, more sea voyages.' But at the fir; Carnegie John Powell and "Iphi- Rodolfo, or his Duke of Mantua The various phases of the World War Sor.rn.James Hunt Heink, Max Rosen, genia in suite they performance I was sober, but the at .tho the llengal Hay.....................Orchestra. Aulis," from "Iphigenia would learn more than was ever conflict, victory and peace-. Liza Sascha Jacobsen. dience had not forgotten. On my et will be portrayed musically when the Jane.F. B. Beaumont in Tauris," suite of Schubert wait«! taught them any maestro. En¬ Oratorio Cornet Tla'ton by trance I was greeted with yells < Society of New York and the Bpeclalty.Joseph and the Polonaise rico Caruso possesses the voice of tho Symphony of New York hold Plantation Melodies.Clef Club Quartet Militaire by Cho¬ ;'Fox della Scottia!' Then there wei Society Syncopated Drum century, but he possesses more than their victory and peace celebration on üolo.George Hines To-night's "Opera Concert" pin. The orchestra will play the llnale counter yells of encouragement. March 7, 13 anel 15 i.n Jada. .Orchestra and Chorus that he is a 'great and a sincere Carnegie Hall. The recital at Winnipeg marked the At "Opera Concert" Toscha from the No. 1 battled through the tumult, bt Walter Damrosch, conductor of both or¬ Music nindustan.Full Orchestra to-night's Symphony by Brahms, singer. has Notes 500th concert by this organization in couldn't finish the last act. My nen ganizations, announced his com¬ its TART II Seidel, violinist, will play Saint-Saëns's "Dance of the Blessed Spirits," from The Tenor's Début plete programme for these events as The Symphony Society of New six years of playing in America.