New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-21
Evening Wraps Were Heavy
With Fur and Brilliantly
CoIored, Gold or Silver
Slippers Correct.
By Carolyn T. RadnOr=LeWiS.

m he social WIFI 10 OH'
By sort Of general consensus, which time
has practically legalized into decree the
winter social season Is said TO date from the opening
night Of the Opera. The Horse Show, the week pre-
ceding, much the buge. which announces each
event. as herald gather in the clans, but the season.
as the scrbes of society call it, opens in burst OF
glory brilliant with the glitter of jewels, with the fam
fare of music the odor Of flowers and the farest OF
women In the most beautiful gowns And if the
brliancy Of the may be predicted from this
opening the whrl for the few months, until the
arrival OF Lent brings much demanded respite, will
be gayer and madden and more strenuous than New
York has enjoyed for many year. For the opening
of the Opera Monday night the most suspicious
within the memory of most matrons.
Last winter the ghosts Of bad times" staked in
the boxes the narrowing disasters across the seas
threw shadow over the audience which neither the
men nor the women attempted cast off, but time
the great mitigator has changed all this. OF and
umors Of wars there was faint echo
Monday night the war babies" had replenished many
Jewel caskets; the world which capitalzes the IS" of
society or hand decorate the horseshoe and be
seen and the still larger world that filled
every available seat and formed human walls several
deep.
THE ETERNAL CRY FOR SEATS.
1t was impossible to buy seat at the box Office
Monday or in fact for several days previous, and the
SPECTATORS busy with the Eastern version OF the
hOld-up game But my dear, couldn't buy seats"
white haired gentleman respected on the bench for
his honesty and veracity explained to his companion
who complaining that standing robbed the evening
Of its enjoyment. "The spectators were asking a
hundred dollars for two seats and that struck me as
pretty steep, for you"
The world and its neighbors arrive in reasonably
good time, but the boxholders are always late and it
later than usual Monday night before the flock OF
society Boswels could record any notabes Evidently
Society dining better this winter the flow OF wits
and other acceleators OF the brain is proonging the
feast which precedes the box party.
On the opening night these parties rule, are
made up Of the holders Of the box for the other nights
Of the week. 1t is pretty bit of courtesy to permit
Mrs A. who acts as hostess for the box, say Wed
nesdsy night, enjoy the opening performance with
the holder Of the box for Monday night, and the box
holders OF the horseshoe are what might be termed
close corporation into which the wise outsider hestates
to penetrate
When the lights bszed forth, however at the con-
eusion Of the first act the boxhoders dressing
Up the boxes and prepared to play their role in the
evenings entertainment And it is no slight part they
play for many who gaze at them through the glasses
me spectators may dare 10 add And Society accepts
tns bsttlement through the glasses with the same
bored indifference that it bestows the performances
akng place the stage.
Once In their the boxhoders and their guests
remain In the boxes until they leave; and II must be
recorded that they remained until the final bacchanale
IN Monday night. The rush from box to box,
shaking hands strenuously and whispering bon mots
n'o ears which fashion permits the hair TO reveal
'O' not strs. II is related that Mrs Alfred
"asstaf Is the one woman who has dared to defy this
un"rilten law and promenade in the foyer, but Mrs
"'ss'ah has an interesting way Of laughing at the
avs her friends hold sacred In other cities the occu-
'shm OF the boxes are not 80 novsbe, and In Phila
s'pna for instance the foyer is very general meet
~s Place where they timber the legs and exercise the
tray matter.
ms does not that the foyer in New York was
~'sf'sc Far from H. for there hundreds OF men