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SUNDAY. SEPT. 27. Graceful Toses iriffib MERRY VIE OW WkYXZ /Hlf r [M \ m ■ l f m| X WSm^feA^ /rAU liHr 'Biftk or?rffiSil§L A i' IH nm !■ Wrl jyßrek/^ 7HH fnl |Mk lis MmfKK^Vm/^L ••A'-nsJSi W''~\* / La fIBGsSMR ; >«r> j>fa «.'P >?V\ r JU- nmTX/ MB fl l HP<>-rf: VsT SEt '-i-l- ■ 1 ; .’, \j Jp»B| V ™ jfalHl %•. * o m & i——:•/ j .vi v v 3« wsßlgfl*Bi \R#|(S HBBL , i&aii) A 1M qBS9 SECOND YEAR OF “THE MERRY WIDOW.’' Henry W. Savage's production of Lehar's seductive “Merry Widow” which has set the world to waltzing, started on Its second year in New York Monday night at Klaw and Erlanger's New Am sterdam Theatre. During the summer this Viennese operetta had packed the Aerial Gardens nightly, and its return to the theatre beautiful marked its 365th consecutive performance in New York. It was a notable event in the record making run of the piece, the house be ing crowded with a cosmopolitan au dienc to welcome the popular Georgia Cain, who made her debut in the charm ing ti. e role. Miss Cain had waited a year for this opportunity, and she danc ed and sang and flirted as never before. Charles Meekins, who followed Donald Brain last spring as the dashing Prince Danilo, was Miss Cain’s partner in the famous “Merry Widow” waltz, and they were forced to do the dance over and over again before the joy-loving an fllence was satisfied. N - ▼ lijlf V/ ‘Mj i| j» ' "M jMHjjyWM '> . ,wi|ii|H \ 'rfPT —^ fr'<f fflEgtji isk>*3. ww »i V_ f r ;| v|-:i WrlP 1:4 m-Zg aSra iJfcsK-. •;•/ * Jr fg k WS| .. ;'3 ETftuta»y 1--.;^ DOES IT PAY TO COMPOSE MUSIC The fact that Lehar. the composer of "The Merry Widow,'* is already a mil lionaire in crowns, and will doubtless be a miillonare in dollars before that charm ing Viennese operetta ceases to entrance the public, has induced C. A. Brat ter, of the Berlin Tageblatt to compare the profits of composers of our days with those of their predecessors. lie recalls the familiar facts that Mozart Schubert and Lotzing practically perished because of insufficient return for their exhaustive toils. Mozart got only 225 florins for his *L»on Juan score, and 100 ducats for his "Figaro'* Schubert often had to write an Immortal song and sell it for twenty cents before he could order ids dinner. Ills clothes wore often patched. Weber got only eigthy Friedrichsdor for his "Frieschutz” one of the most successful operas ever written. After it had fifty performances in Berlin, which yielded 30,000 thalers, the manager generously offered him an extra 100 thaler*. Weber MANY FAMOUS DRIVERS ENTER SAVANNAH RACES Two winners of the Vanderbilt cup, when races for that famous trophy were the crown of auto speed events, will contest on opposing teams for the American grand prize over Chatham county roads o" Thanksgiving Day. Aside from the vast Interest In the great event, regardless of the names of 'he drivers, the contest between these two men will add another tinge of spl>e to the hurrying of the speed You Will Find The New Things And The Good Things Advertised In The Herald These Days Marion Ivel, the English Grand Opera, coutralto who went abroad lo study with Jean Dc Kesko three years ago. has been engaged for a series 01 special perform ences in “Carmen” at the opera in Ai les-Bains this month. Miss Ivel, with her mother and sister, still has her home in Pferls and writes that she expects to be abroad for two years more. winter she was engaged for the opera at Lyons, where her success attracted the attention of Cn^rthiatal mangers. Sho will have a repertoire in French, Ger man and Italian opera when her friends next hear her in America. indignantly refused this "Being a Her .man,” he said bitterly, "what can I ex I pect" Lortzlng, whose popularity in Oer | many was groat while he lived, and Is I great still, got an average of twelve i loulsdor for each opera, and was over j Joyed to get twenty loulsdor in Hamburg 1 for his "Undine.” which made a rich i man of the manager who bought It. 1 As we approach more recent times we ! find the composers on the whole much I better rewarded. Brahms, though he never stooped to conquer, died worth SIOO,OOO. Beethoven was tolerably well off In the later years of his career, and i If Mendelsshon bad not begun rich, his works would have made him so. Meyer bced earned piles of money, and so did • Offenbach, Strauss (the Waltz King), and many others, including. In our coun -1 try, Victor Herbert and Phillip Sousa, fAmong th‘* composers of serious operas j In our time who have become wealthy I are Jlumperdlnk, Richard Strauss, U'Al bert, Mascagni, I’ucetnl, Thomas, Gou nod, Massenet, Wagner's operas have marvels. The two men who of three men In the world are holders of a Vanderbilt Cup title are Victor Hem* ery and Wagner. Formerly they were racing part tier* and If em ery wan to have taken the wheel «»f the car on the day Wagner won hit* victory. That he did not, gave Wag ner hla chore and they are now ri val*. Hem ery won In HK»r> and Wagner '"•AifiSSi jsJfi \ a "*' ' Am Jl?/ It* * £y \h yield.'l ninny million* of dollar* mostly It I* true, elnce lil« drrith. Verdi's yielded million, while In lived und eorne of them are a* profitable a* ever. Doom music pay. NEW “MERRY WIDOW” BTRANGLE HOLD. Henry W. Savage ha. deelded to .tart the .eeond .e..on of “The Merry Wid ow at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Monday night, Augii.t 31, with an entire ly new costume and .renin production. Not only will the Maxim girl* display nil the Intent .tyle. of the Hurt* mod Ist eio In the newly Imported Mmplre gown, and Arll.t Walter llurrldge ,|«w ... *el. for tin thre,. beautiful acta hut In 1900. The two famous driver* will be among the starter* for the grand prize. That each will do his be*t not only to win first place but to add a feather to bis cap by beating a man who holds the same honor he holds, goes without *aylng, Heniery wlli drive a Benz, German car, and Wag ner win drive a Flat, Italian car. Each drove a French car to victory In the former Ixtng Island events. Of the new entile* In the grand prize race the New York Evening Host .ays: Anent New Entries. “The entry of the Benz cars In the grand prize race at Savannah war, completed today by the Kal*erMrhe VHE AUGUSTA HERALD {Hp ttbiuL jKWQtfSIjXSHL tfyjZAjtJr JR pß*j jp2/Mjs IHnM Mifmyw x v prince Dmnlie and Benia are now re hearsing a new strangle hold for the Viennese waltz movement In tie- garden seene where they are nightly forced to respond to Just a* many encore* a. when ini. bewitching operetta first get the Western world dancing to it. alluring melodies. If any one thinks "The Merry Widow” Is destined to lose Its hold on the af fection of mualc -loving theatre goeis a visit to the Aerial Garden* on the New Amsterdam roof the past wee* would have quickly affected any doubt of Its enduring popularity The cosy roof the atre has been entirely too small to »<■ commodate itie crowds that want to hear tbl> most widely advertised opera of the Automobile club, who forwarded to the Automobile Club of Apiaries sign ed entry blank*, with Victor Heniery. Rene Hanriot, und Fritz Erie a* drlv i era. The cars sre of 156 millimetre j bore and weigh 1,295 kilogram*, and ,nre the same car* which competed lln the grand prlx at Dieppe. Heni ery I* well known In America, having I won the 1905 Vanderbilt cup at the 'wheel of th“ Darracq; while Hanrlof 'ls well known as another former ! Darracq pilot The Automobile dub lof Italy ha* also completed the en I try of the three Flats, the driver* iof which will be Nazarro, Wagner, and the Brooklyn driver, Ralph de ! Palma. » ' m> .adtnPirT ft ft! i ftjtts i ... -»a y■* ''MHi Hi century and both Klnw end Mrlnngcr und Henry W Huvugi are wishing the *um ii!*t were over so I bat they can tukc the record breaking musical play down stairs ngiitn to Its original home In the roomy theatre Iteuutlful llnremury Ghats In the title role has waltzed und sung her wuy to the hearts of the sum mer patron. In ii wuy to firmly establish "It Ik expected that Intense rivalry will develop between Wagner on the Fla* and Heniery on the Benz, aa 1 each of these driver* ha* won a Van derbllt race when that event was the big international roatl raee rtf this • country. < Many Foreign Cara. Entries are also assured of thirteen ' more car*, although as yet they have not been completed by the Interna | tlonal club* of their respective court I trie*. From France will cotne a Clement Bayard, two Renault*, two l>e Dietrich t, one Motobloo, and two Panhard*. Italy will have, heslderf J the three Flat* already entered, two Hala* and one l*olta, while Herman." PRESCRIPTION FOR THE “MERRY WIDOW” WALTZ. Mr. Henry W. Savage Is sending here what is said to bn the host company lie has ever organized to give the wonder ftil Victim's operetta, "The Merry Wld ow" Those who have heard the opera declare It is the best "Merry Widow” company In the world and that means a great deal when one considers that over three hundred companies have played the JiOlmr operetta la Europe. The real secret of Its success lies in that splen did new dance creation the "Merry VVod ow” waltz and the equally Inspiring and exquisite tone picture appearing through out the Viennese score. The waltz which has cost a spell over the civilized world has recently been described as follows: “For the 'Merry Widow’ waltz, tuk" to your arms a girl of 10 or maybe 10 1-- and about flu* tame around the waist, close your mind to every thought by tnc gleam In her eyes and gloriously abandon yourself to the glide that makes tho brain dreamy with yen minus, softens tho heart strings until the odor of an arbor steals hi with the passion of the lyre and the whole world Is lurid with the blue of tbe sea and on through tin* dance but never give way to the soulful con fession. 'I love you* and that Im the 'Mer ry Widow’ waltz. herself as a, Broadway favorite for Rood. “Tie Merry Widow” company organ ised for the Pacific lot*! tour will open It* so*rum in I’lHerson, N. J., on Tne-duy •Hept rill her It, playing In Trenton and Now Brunswick, ,N. .1., before it goes to tbe Apollo The*lre at Atlantic tllty for tpe week of tteptember M It will thou will be further represented by two of the three Mercedes which compete! In the grand prlx. The Savannah Automobile club has acol out a no -1 tle*> to tire effect that accommoda -1 Hon* have been found for 12,000 vis llor*. This will Insure plenty of room for visitors, and all should bo i comfortable during the race week. I’tttil Darrolx also announce d today ; that one of the Renault* would be driven by I-ewl* Htrang. The following announcement ha* also been made: “Robert Dee Morrell, etialrman of th- eonlest. committee of the Automobile flub of America, announced yesterday that It. w Buck ley, Jr., of this city bad made the PAGE SEVEN All the world is humming and singing and dancing and whistling the strains of the l,char music; It has set the styles and brought a new clement of harmony and picturesque oellght into the present day existence. Boston, after waiting a year for “Tho Merry Widow," welcomed the charming Viennese lady last week with what was described in the press reports ns tho largest and most wildly enthusiastic au dience that ever crowded Into the Tre mont Theatre. Blnco the opening night more than capacity figures that come more-than capacity figures that same from New York and ('lifcago when the operetta, first took those' two cities by storm last season. r l lie latest new recruit for “Merry Widow" honors In the young Washing ton prlrno donna. Franeeska Nonpar, who recently returned from Paris and signed a three-year contract with Henry VV. Savage, Miss Rasped Is to have the role of Natalie and comes to New York by no less a Judge than President Roose velt, who enjoyed her muslcnlo given at the White House. Hhe Is a. daughter of the violinist, Joseph Kasper and Annlo Jloonier Kasper, for years tho leading soprano soloist of the Capital. start for New fa-leans , visiting the prtn elpal southern cities on tbs way. Rosemary Gloss and George Dnmeral, whi! won fdl New York with their danc ing and slriMln* of “The Merry Widow” waltz during the summer run of the mar ry operetta atop ilia New Amsterdam Theatre have been selected by Henry W. Have** for the company that le to tour Ii- l J ‘ oh ml West this season. lirat formal entry of an American car for the club’s grand prize race at Bavannah on Thanksgiving Day. The tear I* the 1 lft-bor sc power rttcar that the Imlldi-ra began making for the 190 b Vanderbilt Cup race, but did not completed In tlmn and which they had expected to enter In, the 1907 Van derbilt Cup race that was not held. 1 Thomas Williams has been named «* I driver for the car. E. I,llHit of the | llala Import company said yesterday i that three Hala* Instead of two would In- entered for the grand prize race.'* « Swelled head U a disease from I whirti the recovery I* more painful Ilian the disease Itself.