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...rich man's ghost walked the faded red corridors of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week. Singers backstage talked of little else. Board members held consultations over it. Newspapers gave front-page headlines to Augustus D. Juilliard, the name of the rich old, man who used to sit quietly and attentively listening to opera from...
...Augustus Juilliard's money, the public was informed, had saved the life of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Author-Musician John Erskine, in his capacity as president of the Juilliard School of Music, said so. Fifty thousand Juilliard dollars had been given outright toward the $300,000 needed to guarantee another opera season (TIME, Feb. 20). Should public appeal fail to bring in the rest. Mr. Erskine implied that the Juilliard would make up the difference. Stipulations had been made, he said, to which the Metropolitan had agreed: more encouragement would be given to U. S. singers and composers; Juilliard...
...Erskine's announcement it appeared as though the Metropolitan had in desperation sold its independence, as though Mr. Erskine would hereafter be giving orders to Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza. People tried to withdraw their donations. They were informed that Mr. Erskine had given the wrong impression, that the Juilliard was contributing $50,000 and no more, that the Metropolitan's future next year still depended on the outcome of its campaign which, even with the Juilliard's, $50,000, had brought in only...
...many, the fact that the Juilliard was not seeing the Metropolitan through its difficulties seemed as unaccountable as Mr. Erskine's erroneous implication. When Augustus ("A. D.") Juilliard died in 1919 he was president of the Metropolitan boxowners. He had grown up in Stark County, Ohio, migrated to Manhattan, made a fortune in textiles which toward the end of his life interested him far less than the opera. He went to nearly every performance. He was in his box the night he became fatally ill. In his will he left $14,000,000 to create a Juilliard Musical Foundation...
William Mathews Sullivan, a music-minded lawyer, made public the details of Augustus Juilliard's will the day before John Erskine announced the Juilliard Foundation's gift. For two weeks Lawyer Sullivan had withheld his statement waiting for the Juilliard to act. Then he attacked the Foundation for shunning its Metropolitan obligations, for leaving unoccupied an "apparently ample building." for engaging too many foreign instructors. Mr. Erskine claimed in his retort that the principal of the $14,000,000 endowment was still intact, still yielding an annual income of $600,000. He said that last spring the Juilliard...