New-York tribune., 1910-11-13
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

New York's season has now been opened,
and the seal will be set upon it's commence
ment bv the initial performance tomorrow
night at the Metropolitan Opera House,
where the premiere is always regarded as q
red letter event of the winter The season.
indeed. NAV he said to have started yester-
day. with the opening of the National Horse
Show at Madison Square Garden. rival
in popular attraction was the second OF the
fall steeplechase meetings OF the United
Hunts Racing Association at Belmont Pafk
TerrninaI-races which, despite the chilly
and threatening weather. attracted larSe
attendance on the part of well known peo-
pIe from town and from the various coun-
try houses on Long Island, many of which
are having gay house parties to-day.
With regard to the opera, one Of the most
notable features of the season now open is
the removal of the sharply marked social
boundary line between the parterre boxes
and those of the grand tier and elsewhere
in the house Formerly the boxes Of the
parterre tier were restricted to people be-
longing to the most exclusive of the various
sets into which New York society is divided
To those who not content with their circle.
were filled with social aspirations the Sc
curing of a parterre box at the opera
formed the climax of their ambition. con-
stituting the outward and visible sign of
the fact that they had arrived" This win
ter. however, Mrs. Edmund j.. Baylies, Mrs.
Clarence H. Mackay and other we'll known
women have boxes on the grand tier, while
a greater degree OF cathohcity is manifested
in the list of the occupants of the parterre
row boxes than in any previous year. This
is az it should be. For New York society
Is outgrowing the limits of the parterre
row and the endeaVor to continue to re-
strict IT to those particular boxes and 10
exclude all others therefrom was bound 10
fail in the case of city that has out
grown its former provincialism and has
become one of the greatest capitals of the
world
For the next four months the opera will
be on three evenings of the week the most
popular rendezvous of the fashionable set,
the one place where people can be sure of
| finding their friends and al atquaiutances on
| stated nights to discuss the news of the
dav and to make plans for the future.
| Much visiting that would otherwise involve
| tresome drives through noisy streets
| is done in a much more agreeable
manner al the opera by calling on friends
| in their boxes. IN q word. the opera sea
| son serves to simplify life, To reduce the
toll of social obligations and TO facilitate
| agreeable intercourse, besides furnishing 10
the women opportunities of displaying beau.
| tiful frocks and Jewels under the most ad-
vantageous conditions and with tho most
effective OF backgrounds Indeed il is diff
| icult To- conceive of a New York season
| without its opera. The list Of the box.
holders and of the particular nights OF
which they Will be found In their various
loges has already been published in Ths
! Tribune.
| With regard to the horse show IL WAS z
| somewhat bold experiment In openIne YES
terday instead Of as usual. on a Monday
that is 10 say, tomorrow For Yesterday
there was much else to keep people away
in the shape of the races AT Belmont Parl
Terminal. the Iale-Princeton football game
and the weekend house parties at Tuxed,
and iii the entire Meadow Brook district o
Long Island Tomorrow the attendanc,
at the show will be very much larger. an,
VIII probably attain, as in previous years