New-York tribune., 1921-11-06
New Occupants
For Some Opera
Boxes This Year
Changes Come About Be-
cause of Absence of Regu-
lars, and i'm Some Cases
on Account of Mourning
Marshall Fields Listed
They Will Have the Henry
p. Davisons' Share i'm No.
2l on ssParterre Row.

81 OH tartcrre NOW
A number of changes are noted in
the official list of boxholders for the
Metropolitan Opera House for the sea
son which opens week from to-mor-
row. Death and mourning have elm
mated several prominent families
which for several years have figured
conspicnously as regular attendants
during the opera season and as occu.
pants of boxes which have been identi-
fed with their names almost since the
inception of the Metropolitan.
number of families also are abroad
and as they will be away for the entire
season their boxes will DE occupied by
newcomers. Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall
Field, of Chicago, have taken over the
Henry P. Dawson interests in Box 2l,
which they will share with Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Steele and Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Lamont, who always have oc
As Admiral Earl Beatty and Lady
Beatty will be the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Field during their stay in New
York they probably will be seen with
the Fields at the opera.
DR.. Titus Shares Box &c
Mr.. and Mrs. v. Everit Macy have
taken Box Is for certain performances,
occupying the places of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles B. Alexander, who are to pass
the winter in Paris.
Box 26, of which William Ross Proc
tor is part owner, will be taken by DR..
Norman E. Titus, of All Park Avenue,
for certain performances. Members Of
other families who will be absent from
their places because of mourning are
the George Peabody Wetmores, the
Among those who have occupied
boxes regularly in other years but who
are at present absent from New York
are Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James,
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Walton Goelet,
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Gurnee, Mr.. and
Mrs. William M. V. Hoffman and Mr..
and Mrs. Devereux Wilton.
Whitneys Hold No. 80
Mrs. Ogden Goelet again will have
Box No. 1, the M. Orme Wilson's and
the Cornelius Vanderbilts the box
alongside of them, and the Vincent As
tors will have their box, No. Z. Box
No. II. as in years past, will be held by
Mrs. Henry White and her sister, Mrs.
Hamilton Nick. Twombly.
The estate of w. X. Vanderbilt will
have Box No. 6 and the Henry Clewses
and George Jay Goulds, as in former
years, will share Box No. IL. Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid and Ogden Mills will
have Box No. 20.
The Harry Payne Whitneys and the
Payne Whitneys as usual will share
Box No. 80 alternately, and J. P. Nor
gan will have the box in the center Of
the house, No. So.
The complete list of boxholders fol-
lows:
PARTERRE BoxHOLDERs.
Mrs Ogden Goelet.
3-M. Orme Wilson. Mra. Cornelius VAN
derbilt, alternately.
Mrs. e. Reeve Merritt Wednesdays.
Estate of George Peabody Wetmore-
Mrs Harold Brown.
John Aspegren, odd Mondays.
Mrs. w. Watts. Sherman even Mon
days, odd Thursdays odd matinee5
John f. Montgomery, odd Fridays.
Vincent Astor.
Harris Fahnestock. odd Fridays.
Mrs. Robert s. Brewster. odd matinees.
9-Mrs. Willard Straight.
Mrs. e. H. Hartman.
c. T. Mathews, odd Fridays.
Arthur Curtiss james.
Mrs. E. H. Ferry, even Mondays.
Frederic B. Pratt, odd Wednesdays
1s-Henry r. Taylor. Moses Taylor. George
Henry Warren, Mrs William Lowe
1s-Miss 1selin. Mrs. g. H. Gary, odd Mon
days; John J. Watson jr, even Mon
daya; Or. j. Henry Lancashire. odd
i5-Mrs. Henry White. Mrs. II. Nick
Twombly.
s1-Charies steele. Marshall Field. even
Mondays. Thursdays. matinees odd
Wednesdays: Mrs. c. II. Foster. odd
1s-nibridge T. Gary. AIRS e. N. Breitung,
Mondays; Mrs. Louis T. Hoyt. wednes-
as-George G. Haven. Mrs Forsyth Wickes,
estate of John ID. Parsons. John N.
shspas 'ys TSarsasys Ayson W. Wns
ard. even Fridays; Mrs. John r. Par
cons. odd matinsea
Harold I. Pratt, alternately.
as-Mrs. Richard Gambrill. Graud Foster.
Mrs. J. Stewart Barney and Mrs.
Peter Larson. even Mondays.
Mrs. Newboid Morris. odd Thursdays
Mrs. Benjamin Brewster. even Inatinees.
tl--Mrs. Vanderbilt. Reginald e. Wander
bilt. even Mondays
Charles r. Sampson, odd Fridays.
ss--Estate OF Henry r. Hoyt. Miss Rosina
even Mondays.
b. Francis Hyde, Wednesdays.
Mrs. E. Farrar Bateson. odd Thursdays
Mrs. George 8. Dearborn. even Thurs
days.
3t-J. p. Morgan.
4-Frederic A. Juilliard and Captain W.
c. Beach, odd Thursdays.
Mrs. Frederick Pearson Fridays
<--August Belmont and Frank v. Storre
even Mondays.
Mrs. Clarence H. Hyde. ODD matinces
s-E.t.ts of W; x. Vanderbilt
t-Miss l. p. Bliss. c. NJ. Bliss 1r. Mon
days Fridays alternately .
b. H. Borden. II. s. Borden. wednes-
days. Thursday alternately.
Mr.. Borden. Mr.. Bliss. natinees.
1e-George F. Baker. Mondays Thursdays
alternate matinees
William Fahnestock. DR.. Ernest Fahne-
stock. DR.. Clarence G. Campbell