Music: A New Metropolitan?

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The Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, is at least realizing what is self-evident to every visitor from Toledo and Akron: that the structure which now houses the "greatest opera company in the world" is woefully inadequate— a small, dingy, undistinguished, badly-located building. Otto H. Kahn, khan of music-patrons, said as much. "The Metropolitan is antiquated. It has no room for the thousands who cannot pay high prices of admission. It is in a congested district of the city. We should have a modern, more beautiful, more commodious structure, located in an other section. . . . Will we ever get or build a new Metropolitan? . . . Well, I'll talk to the other Directors about it."

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