The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-16
OPENING DRAWS
A NOTABLE AUDIENCE

" was the usual brilliant spectacle
that the Metropolitan Opera House al
ways presents on the opening night OF
the winter season, and the event also
sets the mark for the regular fashion
able season which will be well under
way this week. or all the opera houses
Of the world the Metropolitan is the only
one that holds It's own and just at the
present time Is the only one to be giving
a brilliant season, something now i'm
possible in Europe. As FAR as one could
Judge all the prominent families of New
York society were represented. although
there were lacking the diplomats who
In happier times have lent their pres
ence TO uch openings
There were in the audience some OF
the debutantes OF the coming winter. but
as far as the personnel of the audience
was concerned there was, no important
change. The double row of boxes n
the orchestra circle presented a bright
and cheerful appearance and the Opera
Club box was filled.
The disposition OF the audience was
as follows
In the Parterre Boxes.
3. Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. orme Wilson
guests. Mrs. Lewis $. Chanler. Mr.. and
Mrs. N. Orme Wilson, Jr. Robert Is.
Van C%ourtlandt and T.. Coster Wilmer
ding.
B. Mrs. Cornelius c. Cuyler; guests,
Mr. and Mrs. James Brown Potter. Mrs.
~. Hamilton Russell. Mrs. T.. Cooper
Hewitt and James D'Wolf Cutting.
4 Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius y.
Guests, Brig. -Gen. Leonard Nj. wood
and Mrs. Wood, Miss Bliss and George
Blagden.
ton. Guests. Mr.. and Mrs, Theodore
Roosevelt. Jr. and Mr., and Mrs W,
Bourke Cochran.
CHESTS Mr.. and Mrs, George j. Gould
and MIR. and Mrs. Herbert Parsons.
10. Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd 8. Brice
Guests. Mr.. and Mrs. +. Gray Grtswold
and Mr. and Mrs. J. Sergeant Cram.
is. Mr.. and Mrs, James Speyer'
Guests. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Brewster,
Augustus G. Gurnce, Harrison q.
Rhodes and Dudley Carleton,
is, Edward r. Bacon. Guests. the
Hon. Mrs. Alfred Arson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Il. Alexander, MIR. and Mrs
w. Rathbone Bacon and Charles ~
10. Henry C. F@ck and Miss Frick
! Guests. Mrs. Lawrence MISS
Louise Freeman. John p. Grler and DE-
Fordyce Il. st. John.
2I. Or. and Mrs. John Herndon
French. Guests. Mrs Mercer French
and Miss Irene Gibson. debutantes; Ar
thur Gammell and +. Bayard Rives'
2e. Mrs. Henry NJ. Fragler. Guests
Mr. and Mrs. Pembroke Jones. Judge
Rohert bingham and Elbridge Riddle.
"a. Mrs. Eib@dge 7, Gerry. Guests
Miss Gerry. Miss Mabel derry. Douglas
C~ampbell. Thomas Slidell and Charles
| Hanford.
Is. Mr.. and Mrs, Ebert II. Gary,
Guests, the Brazilian Ambassador ana
Nine. Domicio da Cana, ana Mr. ana
Mrs. Eloy Marines OF Havana. CUBA
~. Mr.. and Mrs. George Henry war
ran. Guests. Mr.. and Mrs. lie Roy En-
mel. Mrs. Robert Mccormick, Frederick
" baldwin and George II. Warren. Jr'
4 Robert Goelet. Guests. Mr.. and
Mrs. William Payne Thompson. Mr.. ant
Mrs. Henry w. Bull and Mr.. and Mrs
william Woodward.
7. Mr.. and Mrs, Vincent Astor
Guests. Miss Marion Carey Dinsmore
a debutante; Francis n Maurice
Roche, +. Gerry Chadwick and Richard
Peters.
Q. Mr.. and Mrs. willard Straight
Guests, MR.. T.. Henry Hartman. Mis-
Beatrice Bend and Robert Perkins
~. Mrs Hamilton NICK. Twombly