On May 20, Harry Thaw of Pittsburgh, who was destined to startle New York afterwards with the shooting of Stanford White, gave a party at the Ritz hotel which made even gay Paris sit up and rub its eyes. Mr. Thaw engaged my band to give on…

CHAPTER 10 第１０章 FIRST EUROPEAN TOUR OF THE BAND, 1900 JOHN L. SULLIVAN WISHES US LUCK PARIS WELCOMES US YELLOW JOURNALISM “DIE WACHT AM RHEIN” IN PARIS HAPPY THAW'S FAMOUS PARTY SUBSIDY THE DEATH OF ART A NEWSPAPER TUG OF WAR DEDICATIO…

As I became more widely-known, a number of men began to do imitations of me － some of them clever, and some the rankest kind of burlesque. Walter Jones, a comedian with Rice's musical pieces during their stay at Manhattan Beach, was a con…

I had made no arrangements to spend my usual season at Manhattan Beach that summer, since I had expected to go to Europe, so I leased a farm up in Suffern, N. Y., and there wrote the lyrics and music of The Charlatan. It was produced in Mo…

On December 28, 1897, The Bride Elect for which I wrote libretto and music, was produced in New Haven, by Klaw and Erlanger. A number of New York critics attended that first performance. So great had been the success of El Capitan that nat…