000 1 I all/ (go? IclOg tom, 1859 1861 bM Academ ßt noldyn Y of Vh 414S'c 45TH SEASON GRAND OPERA By Notable Cats from The Metropolitan Opera Company of Nett York Saturday, November 14 Monday, November 23 Wednesday, December 2 Monday, December 14 Tuesday, December 22 1908 Monday, January 4 Thursday, January 14 Tuesday, January 26 Thursday, February 4 Wednesday, February 17 Friday, March 5 Wednesday, March 17 Wednesday, March 24 Monday, April 5 1909 THE OFFICIAL PROGRAMME FOR WEEK OF DECEMBER 5, 1908 NC. 32 Copyright applied for New York and Boston Publishing Company 1904 1908 THE PEARL PRESS, 375 Pearl St., Brooklyn Mrs. Henry Smock Boice Miss Susan S. Boice, Soprano The Brooklyn STUDIOS Academy of Music Carnegie Hall, Man., Mon., Th., Sat. 400 Washington Av., B'klyn. Tel., 608 Prosp't at Art of Singing, French Lyric Diction, Classes in French, German and 176 to 194 Montague Street Italian. Best Methods. Incorporated "For the Purpose of Encouraging and Culti- Round Hats vating a taste for Music, Literature and the Arts" Tuesday, March 15 Elizabeth 1859 Dedicated Rhind Tuesday Evening, January 15 374 Fulton Street FIRST PERFORMANCE OF OPERA ti) Tuesday Evening, January 22 Tocques Brooklyn o ti) rn c o FIRST DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE u 1870 "Confidence is not gained in a day" 1908 Monday Evening. December 23 G) 4.11 4-4 1861 ARTHUR J. HEANEY .14 4.4 z Loans on Diamonds and Jewelry and Destroyed by Fire on s.c Monday Morning, November 30, 214 and 216 Atlantic Ave. 1903 333- Tel., 3182 Main Brooklyn Telephone, 423 Main All Our Publications Y. Chandigian are printed on Satin Sheen Primrose Tint Super Dealer in 29x44 -80 lbs., 500 Sheets to the Ream, Made Ex- Oriental Rugs pressly for Our Use in Five -Ton Lots Repairing and Washing a Specialty by 82 FLEET ST. J. E. LINDE & CO. Cor. of DeKalb Ave. Opp. Loeser's Beekman and Cliff Sts. New York City Mrs. Patterson = Collins IMPORTER OF The Master School Fine Hair Goods 203 DeKalb Ave., Brooklyn of Vocal Music All Orders Made on Approval. Tel., 1849 -J Prospect New York City Typewriter Borough of Brooklyn World The New 108 Montague St. (Near Borough Hall and Subway Station) the Academy of Music York in on An institution founded and endowed by the foremost citizens of Brooklyn and to raise and up- Lafayette Avenue hold the standard of Music in America. Day of City between re- opening, Oct. 19. Voicetrial and classification, St. Felix Street and Ashland Place Oct. 15 and 16. FACULTY New Incorporated Friday, April 29, 1904 Frau Professor Aurelia Jaeger, Head Organized Teacher of Vocal Instruction Principal Monday, November 21, 1904 Rice The Site Selected Frau Melanie Guttman (of the Conserva- And Ground Purchased, March, 1905 tory of Vienna) 1st Assistant to Frau Jaeger. Senor Pedro G. Guetary, Teacher of Bel Canto. Corner -stone Laid Madame C. de Palkowska, Teacher of Breath- Every Saturday, May 25. 1907 and Breath Control. ing in and Opened for Mrs. Standard Adele Laris Baldwin, Teacher of English Broadway, Inspection by Invitation to Diction. The Stockholders and their Guests on Herr Eugen Haile, Chorus Master and Accom- panist. Wednesday Afternoon and Evening, Sept. 16 Dr. Gerit Smith, Teacher of the Theory of Music 1908 Fraulein Bertha Firgau, Teacher of the German 253 Language. The Opera House Signor Eduardo Petri, Teacher of the Italian FIRST DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE Language. Represented Saturday Evening, October 17 Mlle. Louise Charvet, Teacher of the French FIRST PERFORMANCE OF OPERA Language. Monday Evening, November 2 Henry T. Finck, Lecturer on the History of FIRST BALL (Orch. and Stage Floored Over) Music, Thursday Evening, November 5 A. L. Cordoza, Teacher of Fencing. Madame Marcella First Subscription Night -The Grand' Opera Sembrich and Mr. David Royal Saturday, November 14 Bispham have accepted places on the Visiting Jury of Musicians. - The Music Hall The number of places being limited, attention is being called to the fact that vacant places will be filled FORMALLY OPENED_, in strictly chronological order, according Wednesday Evening, October 14 to dates and of application. Address all comunications to The Lecture Room on RICHARD EWERS Friday Evening, September 25. Business Manager of the Same Year The j``%; dtl-llt Wtÿ9, L! ;1.;._l L 471.111Jb,i +.!-J 3. \,+.. 1J t.. 1 L l +v J 1` +ll :1`+1.. t.,J4. + Notice to Opera Subscribers Arrangements have been made so that four carriages on Ashland Place and three car- riages on St. Felix Street can discharge or take up passengers at one time. Attention is called the the Traffic Regulations below. Please notice that at the end of the performance carriages will advance to the carriage exits on Ashland Place'and St. Felix Street in order as they stand, and not in response to carriage calls. The numbers of the first ten carriages in line on both side streets will be posted on number carrying machines, one at each end, in the main lobby, thereby notifying patrons that the numbers announced are approaching the exits. Patrons are requested to stay inside the main lobby in order that they may see their numbers when placed on the in- dicators, and thus avoid congestion at the doors. They may pass into the outer lobbies at each end of the main lobby when their carriage numbers are posted. They are urgently re- quested to take their carriages as quickly as possible -if they do not their carriage will have to move on and again take their place in line later on. New numbers will be continuously posted as previous carriages leave. Patrons are respectfully urged to assist the employees of the Academy in keeping an open aisle through the middle of the lobby, in order to avoid delays. Traffic Regulations. Issued by the Department of Police Arriving: St. Felix Street Entrance- Approach from Hanson Place by West Side of St. , Felix Street to Entrance, and depart by North side of Lafayette Avenue to Fulton Street -White Checks, Nos. 1 to 500. Arriving : Ashland Place Entrance -Approach from Flatbush Avenue, via East side of Ash- land Place to Entrance and depart through Ashland Place to Fulton Street -Pink Checks, Nos. 501 to 999. Arriving : Lafayette Avenue Entrance -Approach from Flatbush Avenue by Lafayette Ave- nue, South side, and depart by Lafayette Avenue or St. Felix Street to Fulton Street. At this Entrance carriage checks will be given for the side exits Only. To Take Up Passengers on St. Felix Street: ' Carriages will stand in two lines on the North side of Hanson Place, East of St. Felix Street, and thence in a single line on the West side of St. Felix Street, and then after taking up passengers, will depart West, via Lafayette Avenue or through St. Felix Street to Fulton Street. To Take Up Passengers on Ashland Place: Carriages will stand in two lines on the South side of State Street, and on the East side of Fourth Avenue, west of Flatbush Ave - Avenue, and in a single line on the East side of Ashland Place, and will depart either West or the North side of Lafayette Avenue, or through Ashland Place to Fulton Street. Carriages May Stand to be Taken by Appointment: On Ashland Place, between La- Hats M fayette Avenue and DeKalb Avenue, and can proceed to the Lafayette Avenue front, right side to curb, and then can depart East on Lafayette Avenue or North on St. Felix Street. $15. 1319 o Licensed Public Hacks and Coaches: will stand on the East side of Rockwell Place, to z O North of Lafayette Avenue. N aC $10. Tel., N A.) CS of C. No advertisement that is not approved of by The Board of Direc- tors of The Brooklyn Academy of Music will be permitted in this Publi- M. cation. W Y. This degree of Censorship was voluntarily and freely accorded predominance same thè to The Executive Committee by this Publisher during the fifteen years a to that he conducted the Programme at the Academy of Music when on With Montague Street, and never once was the said Censorship invoked by The Board of Directors against any of his Advertising clientage. door $40. to (next This Programme $5. 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