New-York tribune., 1896-12-12
THE NEW HOTEL DE EOPERA.
PERFORMANCES WILL STILL BE GIVEN At
THE METROPOLITAN, HOWEVER.

PERFORMANCES WILL STILL BE GIVEN At
THE METROPOLITAN. HOWEVER
This Is how history repeats itself In the early
days Of the modern stage, when real theatres were
few, plays used TO be performed in the courtyards
OF inns. with the audiences sitting or standing
about the ground the balconies that
usually around such places. In the early
days OF the drama In this country, when everything
connected with a theatre was regarded as wicked
plays advertised moral dialogues" and
were given In the largest rooms OF the hotels In
the towns where the actors came. And now peo-
pie who want to hear grand opera In New-York
must go hotel to hear It. They may not
realize the character OF the place. but that Is what
II Is
A good deal Of attention has been excited In the
last few months by law Of the State Of New
York which. though aimed primarily to regulate
tho traffic In liquors. has the additional eject OF
promoting In wonderful manner the establish
ment of hotels In the last few months persons
have become hotel-keepers who did not expect ever
In their lives to be hotel-keepers One OF the uses
OF the Metropolitan Opera House Is for the holding
OF the most important balls Of the New-York so'
cia II is necessary for the comfort OF per-
sons who attend these balls that they should be
able to obtain certain liquors. even after O'Clock
in the morning and this cannot be done unless the
place where the ball is held is a hotel.
So the Metropolitan Opera House has now been
made INTO a hotel This assertion does not refer
10 the front part OF the building occupied as an
apartment house. That has been a motel for "a
long time The part OF the house where the palls
held and the operas are given Is entirey sepd'
rate from that and IL has to have a license sepa.
rately, and IL has 10 be a hotel separately Ah9
IL is Now. by the definition of the law. a notei
In this State is hotel unless II has ten sleep
ing-rooms. The apartments in the front or tne
Metropolitan Opera House do not help II IN this
matter any more than the license OF the restau.
rant III the corner helps IL. The opera a-house az
opera house must have ten sleeping IN ,Ss Us
its own. So beds have been put into ten OF the
dressing rooms. and the place Is on the instant
hotel , =.
The new hotel Is not yet named as a hotel ~
cannot be called the Metropolitan Hotel cecauss,
that name is already In use The name Oh iI.u, Sas
de rOpera Is suggested. II Is appropriate ana '.s
be the only hotel anywhere that pays It's guests
for occupying their rooms. 1t still lacks booo
many OF the modern improvements, snch rs ere
trio indicators in the rooms. baths. dinls-Ioo
etc but IL IL In some other respects unsurpasssea
among the great hotels Of the world NO othe.
hotel Il Is believed has such fine ballroom VI
such accommodations Tor entertainments ah" "~~
ings a large scale. arv
The hotel Is so that II has not yet done al.
large amount OF business. but among the ssss suss
already Jean de Reszke Edouard de "a msss" ssv
eral other persons OF public note Inc oniy wpny~I wyyI
inent arrival yesterday was Nine. Emma oais% os..
who came from the Plaza where she has h,,sSay psrs
staying since she arrived I'm New-York on Nonaay'
In the rotunda Of the hotel In the evening ,,: M,.
Calve sang the part OF Carmen, Spanish clgs.e,,s
girl in a moral dialogue OF the same name. VIZ. VII"
neonle gathered to hear her. The dialogue mas
tragic ending intended to illustrate the disastesss
that may arise from the manufacture ana use ,S ~
cigarettes IL IL thought that the company t%sn tsn,
cred TO hear II derived much improvement Nse'
the dialogue had been performed Nine GAVE oe.
cded not to take up her quarters permanently az
the new hotel as yet but to return TO ,he h bstter
which she regards as IN some respects '''o ~
bote Of