The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-14

at Saturday matinees but the Scoville
School will have II Wednesday nights
and the Comstock School of Music will
have It Thursdays The students of
Miss Fosters school and of Miss Mason's
school will have box No. As for Friday
nights and Saturday matnees. respec-
lively. Miss Mason also will send her
gif students 10 the matinees, when they
will sit In No. AZ. The Finch School
has adjoining boxes. 40 and AZ. for Fri
day nights. Students of the Devereil
School and Mrs. BOWS school will view
opera from No. A on Friday nights and
aturday matinees. Students at Nine.
Rienel's French school will 70 TO tho
opera Thursday nights and sit In No.
46, and the girls who attend Miss
Spence's school. In Fifty-ffth street. will
be matinee patrons In box No so.
Thus far this educational side OF grand
opera Is confined to the grand tier row
OF boxes. Time may come when the
golden horseshoe" the stronghold OF
the men and women who own the Opera
House, may become a part OF this cur
riculum.
Eventually another and vastly more
important step is to be taken In tho
development OF the Metropolitan az an
educational institution.
Unique Opera Club.
Tomorrow night d unique club among
social organizations I'm New York will
come into temporary existence. II Is the
Metropolitan Opera Club, and the men,
bers OF IL furnish that glistening row OF
shirt fronts In the omnibus box at the
extreme left of the grand tier row.
The memory does not have to be very
long to recall the progenltor Of this or
ganization. the old Vaudeville Club.
founded by the late oliver Sumner TealL
That was about twenty-five years ago
That forerunner OF the present club had
quite a vogue with Its vaudeville per-
formances and suppers In the big lounge
In the Opera House now used by the
Opera Club-a lounge now devoted to
quiet conversation over unsullied club
soda. IL was different In the old days.
The Vaudeville Club gave animated
parties, but the organization got into
managerial difficulties In later years and
the Metropolitan Opera Club sprang
frum It's dislntegration.
The Metropolitan Opera Club IL cock
istent each year with the season OF
grand opera. This year Il will be twenty
three weeks old. II has only nightly
sessions. which open and close with each
performance. The members control the
omnibus box and the lounge that opens
from the Thrty-ninth street grand tier
corridor. Mr. Henry Dodge Cooper r.
this years president. Gen. william
Wheewrlght Skiddy the vice-president,
and Mr. Frederic Potts Moore the secre-
tary and treasurer. There IL only one
operating executive. Mr.. r. L. Dockray.
who had held that place through several
seasons Several walters form the force
Of employees. but they do not have as
much TO do as they used TO In the times
before the Eighteenth Amendment took
the ginger out Of night life even during
lntermlssiors at the opera
Mr. Gatti-Casazza Ia an honorary
member of the Opera Club Andrea de
Segurola used TO be, but the latter now
has transferred his allegiance and his
monocle from Broadway and Fortieth
street TO Havana. The members. about
/ 90 IN number. are men OF various pro-
fessions and businesses who find their
chief distraction ut the opera under Ideal
circumstances. Mr.. J., Pierpont Morgan