Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-12-01
6lAMS 1T THE OPERA.
Leslie Whitacro Relieves His Mind
About Some Female Grand
Opera NuisanceS.

FRANCES SAVILLE, A SAN FRAN
CISCO GIRL. HAS ALREADY ES-
TABLsHED HERSELF IN NEW
YORK FAVOR-SOlIE INCIDENTS
OF THE OPENING OPERA NIGHT
JEAN DE RESZKE HAS GROWN
FAT AND CALVE A GREATER FA-
VORITE THAN EVER--TIIE PROS
PECTIVE RIVALRY BETWEEN
REHAN AND NETHBRSOLE-A
CHANCE THAT MAUD ADAMS
MAY STAR-HOW DAVID BELAS-
co TRIED TO MAKE RETRIBU-
TION TO EDWARD FALES COW
ARD.
From Our Regular Correspondent
New York, November 27-The open
ing Of the opera season has settled one
thing. Not even for a grand opera &C.
castor do the women Of New York In
tend TO lay aside their hats. 1t is
Ditv that women claiming to be metro
nolitans should persist in this proyin-
ciaIism. for the effec, Of so much top
story millinery. while spectacular. ut
-erIv rrins the general effect which the
house should present on an opera nignt.
Managers long ago aoanaohed All nope
Of Dersuding New YORK women INTO
removing their hats at the theatre, Dut
never until this year was there such
oenera1 influx Of bats into the orchestra
Chairs nj th, Metropolitan. At the
oDering performance these hats were
The one Earring note in what was other
Wise p spectacular symphony. There
wore those long tiers of boxes filed with
womeD more or less beautiful, bed!a-
morded and magnifcently dressed, and
tbeD below them in the orchestra chairs
sat droves and droyes Of women with
+boir bea Is logged out in The same
bradgear that they would wear 20 church
or the sewing society. Outside Of the
boxes the only part Of the house where
the women had their heads uncovered
was the dress circle. Here YOU could
count the bonneted women en- your fin
company her to the opera in a sack-coas
perhaps he wouldn't hear Of it-Oh, no.
But the New York woman fails 10 see
that her bonnet at the opera is hope
lessly cut of the picture When one
remembers that we have even such
right authority as the Scriptures for the
statement that a woman's crowning
glory Is her hair, It beats me how here
IN New York the women try 70 obscure
their hirsu,te adOrnments at every op-
portunity. There was one man in the
opera house az the opening performance
who took those bOnnets very much to
heart. He was old Signor De Viro. the
operate conductor, who on Broadway
IS better known as the Seer OF the opera
house. What old De V.rO doesn't know
about the operate events Of the last 100
years is not worth knowing. Not only
was he the musical conductor al Patti s
hrst performance, but according to the
rumcrs which circulated IN the corridors
OF the opera house he ran a string or
cnesTa IN the Babylonian roof gardens
and led the orchestra for the grand
march when Noah's stock company
emerged from the Ark and played their
CELEBRATED ENGAGEMENT on
Mt. ARAFAT
at is too bad, too bad" exclaimed
Signor De Viro, as he leaned on the
railing Of his dress circle and looked
down upon that bobbing sea Of furbe-
lows. you would think they would have
learnt better sense By this time ] be-
lieve the average New York woman
would rather lose her diamonds than
her hat OF the artists who took part
in the first weeks performance it is
only necessary 10 say that Calye is the
bright particular star. Her reception
in Carmen" was
AN OVATION WITH A LARGE o.
Jean De Reszke is fatter than he was
last season. He must have gained al
least twenty pounds in weight. Jean