Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-11-17

cannot concentrate on one pretty face
aud graceful figure before another
/ draws their eyes away from %. The
| sophisticated man about town who has
] Dten IN Europe and done Coyent Car.
| den, the Grand opera boz Paris. and the
| Metropolitan In New York. Is lust A
| little out Of &c. His sluhIstcation does
! not give him BIZ OF consequence which
! he feels BE ought To- have Those peo.
! PIE don't care about his strict ZEN reggie"
| opera OUTFIT They are just as good as
| anybody else, know "a good deal more
about opera, after an. than most Of
| those foreign and metropolitan audi
ences. and they are not going 90 be sur.
pIlsea az anything. SO the Travelled
man Of the world stands In the corner
Just Of as little Importance as he
would be In Covent Garden or anywhere
else.
There are lots OF young men. The
eldest son from college has not come
with his sisters. He Is with his chums.
and he wears his first dress suit with
the nOnchalance Of a veteran. They are
an watching the girls, and Isn't she
stunning and other such remarks
break from their excited lips every mo-
ment Then sou can see the ambitious
young gentleman who aspires 10 social
a
deal 10 get himself up but he Is in the
swim for once. Everybody Is In tn.
SWIM
There Is the popular bachelor who is
known not 70 be a marrying man. But
ne is IN danger for no woman ever be-
lleVes man really cannot be brought
Gown, however confirmed In celibacy.
And the temptation Is great at the
opera house on an opera night. Moving
through the crowd you can catch
gllnpses ~ the man who is not alto.
gether comfortable. II Is a new expert
tnce for him, for ne has been hard at
work an his life, and. perhaps. let us
say he has struck IL rich In Nome and
is making his first splurge In San Fran
cisco. Once the patron, the miner is
now the tenderfoot OF the opera.
But most largely IN evidence are tho
people who have seen and known the
best Of everything, the placid people 10
Whom an opera season means only
what they are perfectly familiar with,
and who have gathered o they would
at a function in which they had Nh,
leading place. Hasn't Patti been here
i've times?
THE LATE COMERs.
But the crowd is disappearing: the
foyer Is emptying. the orchestra IL IN:
the foyer Is empty, the overture is I'm.
.shedi the curtain goes UP. Tardy san
Francisco Long. long after the big
house should have been hushed 20 the
ointall point OF silence late corners are
struggling IN. This sort OF thing may
10 for everyday affairs but not for
opera which is easily grand. il Is
question which pays the moSt-the
properly punctual ones who must
atch what they can Uf the music above
he clauer and hustle of seating the
ardy ones or The singers whose annoy
nee Is obvious ID iy well along in the
INST act before the house is sun MS IL
h0uid d. and eager eyes and cars may
&c and hear und.s.urbel. But tho
lush comes at last and iu "a few min
ties the audience has forgotten the trial
I tho tardy Ue0rl.-has forgotten
yeryhing but the music and the art-
~. And 500 10 goes u.l The curtain falls.
no then the whole house becomes ami.
lated with chatter and with everybody
ioking 8t everybody else noting the
resses. the shoulders the cUinures and
BE- Jewels, and the foyer Is filled with
noke from cigarettes while the kalei-
oscope moves up stairs where groups
re walking about Or standing by a.,
filings looking down 10 pick out the
ZEN they know below
And they are discussing the music.
nd the artists f0r they know the opera
lckvard, and Maurice Grlu walks
ound proud of his performance. proud
his enterprise. Cor the san Francisco
ople enc 1s frank n their praise as IN
erythIns else. Here and there YOU
10 SEE fna artists Who are not In the
st. They are more excited than the
dience. and those who are strangers