Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1909 — HAMMERSTEIN-MRS. MACKAY [ARTICLE]

HAMMERSTEIN-MRS. MACKAY

Impresario’s Difference With Society Leader Results In $5,000 Suit. New York, Oct. 29.—Oscar Hammer stein is suing Mrs, Clarence H, Mackay to recover $5,000 for the services of Director Campanini and the Manhattan opera house orchestra at a musicale she gave in January this year. Mrs. Mackay a year ago made a house to house canvass of her friends to make Wednesday night the fashionable night at the Manhattan. She took six boxeß for herself and her friends. But her attitude toward the opera house changed after Hammerstein parted company with Conductor Campanini. The Impresario Bays: “Society or no society, I am running the Manhattan opera house.”