New-York tribune., 1906-11-25
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Opera and the celebration of THANKSGIVING will
occupy to great extent the attention of the fash
ionabe world during the week which opens to-day
The season of the former opens Tomorrow night
the Metropolitan. and the parterre row. as usual
on such occasions, will be thronged with the most
representative assembage of New York society that
it is possible to gather under any roof For
difficult to obtain the possession, or even the
temporary lease, of box in that particular por-
tiOn OF the house it is to secure election to the
most exclusive of clubs. The stockholders and
lessees of the boxes regard IL a duty toward
the members of their set to bar all those who do
not belong to what they regard society from
the mystic horseshoe circle at the Metropolitan
II is with GOunods Romeo and Juliet" that DI-
rector Conred will start the oDeratic season to-
morrow night. But. popular is this particular
masterpiece of GOunOd, II is probable that the par
terre row Will attract quite as much attention on
the part of the audience the performance on the
stage, people being interested TO note the changes
in the occupancy of the various boxes and the new
comers. The latter are few. Although there are
many who have shifted from one part of the row to
another, there are. strictly speaking, only three
additions TO the list OF last year, namely, exam
baSsadOr Joseph Choate, eX-Annbassador Horace
Porter and Colonel Robert NJ. Thompson. who has
rented the box belonging 10 Mrs. Vanderbilt sr
until the end of the year. when she win return with
her daughter, Miss Gladys Vanderbilt. from Paris
where she is staying.
II
terre row during the season about 10 open Thus
Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Mex. TwombIy are still
in deep mourning for their only SON James Henry
Smith has started cruise in the Orient with
his bride and his stepdaughter, Miss Anita Stew
art, board the steam yacht Margherita, which
he has chartered from his brother-in- law Anthony
Drexel. Mrs. Robert Goelet has decided 10 spend
the winter in India, and has sailed from Nice for
Bombay. board her steam yacht Nahma Her
box No "a. has been let to Z. H. Hartman and
Wiuthr Mr. Mrs u
who in mourning. also remaining abroad for
the season. and so. too is James Hazen HYDE who
is in Paris. and Mr. and Mrs, o. II p Belmont
and Mrs, John r. Drexel, who in England
Among those who stin have boxes in the parterre
row for their exclusive use are Harry PAYNE Whit
new who has Box so: William X Vandarhu+ s
who has Box 6; William Douglas Sloane Boy i.
D. o. Mills, Box %; Mrs, Astor. Box :; ] Pier
pont Morgan. Box 81. and Mrs. OGDEN C;oelat tsov,
OF the changes to be noted in the disnosi+io s
the house tomorrow night will be the enlargement
of the space devoted to the Opera Club by The a.
dition of Stall Box 10, which provides the cI,b with
ten additional seats. George s WaIlen Is rba ,raI
dent of the club. George p. Slade the vica-nrasf
dent and Bernard Gunther the treasurer
Thanksgiving Will be made the occasion OF M
merous house parties at Tuxedo and at the vari-
GUS country seats around New York !, 4,
national festival which seems mora o,,,..
and Is certainly more enjoyable In rural tbop
In urban surroundings Among thosa ,rbo ~,
be out of town over Thursday are AR and
Mrs Wnham n Vanderbilt, who will entertain
several friends at Idle Hour, their place n, Toro
Island Mr. and Mrs Harry Payne Whitney. who
VIII have party at their country bor,e ~, tho
Wheatey Hllls Long Island: Mrs Ogden Mills
who VIII be at her country home at staotshurr
on tho hudson: Mr.. and Mrs Clarence II AI,cka,.
VINO VIII be at Harbor Hin their country seat ot
Roslyn. and Mrs. Charles b AIexapdar u.h, u,n
nave mouse party az Tuxedo. Here I'm town the
dinners In connection with the festival will be re-
stricted TO relatives and intimate friends and win
be or an Informal character
r-N-tresident Cleveland. Andrew Carnegie ArartI,
w Ltteton and Sir Mortimer Drrard 1na Prtt,sn
~ AinoAsSaaor. VIII be among the speakers at the
annual dinner OF ths St. Andrews Society on 81
andrews DAY. which falls ON Friday. w. Ru,Iar