San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-01

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gala season We have before us.
Each passing day brings news of
this or that imposing entertainment
10 be given following the parting OF
the great yellow curtains nj the Metro
| politau Opera House on November >,
| and the social calendar from mid-No-
vember until New Years already pre-
sents an inspiring array Of events.
There will be debutantc luncheons,
matinee parties. dinners. dances. balls,
| subscription events, concerts. etc. ga
lore, and even the most jaded Of So
cial leaders will be forced to admit
the forthcoming season promises to be
banner one. .-
The opening of the Metropolitan
will. OF course. be a glittering event.
and while there will be few changes
in the personnel of the golden horse
shoe" on the first night. there will be
number of interesting additions to
the list Of boXholders for subsequent
evenings.
4 box in the partcrrc ut the gildel
Temple OF Music over on Broadway
is one of the most priced Of all social
possessions and-one of the most diff
ficult to attain. The more distin-
guished debutantes of the season will
make their appearance in the boxes
during the first week of the opera and
fortunate indeed. is the "debbie"
whose pater and mater are included
among the boxholders.
So crushed is the dowager. Mrs.
Vanderbilt. over the recent death Of
her youngest and favorite son, Regi-
maid. it is hardly possible she will at
tempt to redecorate this autumn, the
former home of Mrs. George j. Gould,
at S57 Fifth avenue, which she pur-
| chased almost two years ago. and
which has stood idle since Mrs.
Gould's passing.
Mrs. Vanderbilt is at THE Break
ers" in Newport, and her daughter,
GLADYS. the Countess Szechenyi, who
hurried back from Hungary when
news of her brothers death reached
| her, is constantly at her mothers side
and the other daughter. Mrs. Harry
Payne Whitney. makes frequent trips
from Wcstbury to the enyirons OF
Ochrc Point.
Those close to Mrs. Vanderbilt say
she will remain in seclusion at The
Breakers" all winter and will jour
ney TO New York when it is absolute
ly necessary. On such visits she will
stop at n small. quiet hostelry, in
asmuch as her chatcau-likc abode at
Fifth avenue and F'ifty-seventh street,
recently sold for more than seven
million dollars, is to be- RACED in The
near future to make way for hotel
that will reach UP into the clouds
fifty-six stories.
One does not have TO be Methusc.
lah to recall the very circumSpcct
period when society peremptorily de-
clined to indulge in excursions up ana
down the Great White Way. Broad
way in the era referred to was lined
with what were classcd as lobster
palaces" and the chief patrons of the
trotteries among the most famous
street in the world were members of
the merry merry. gildcd youths who
by throwing discretion and many
bank notes TO the four winds felt they
were celebrating their salad days.
Today. the lobster palaces" are no
more, the white lights have become
green, blue, yellow-in fact, all the
colors of the rainbow, and the poor
chroines have been ousted by the in.
vasion of the very bontons who tor
merly felt they were Summing when
they crossed west of Sixth avenue.
Hardly a night passes but what
certain pages from the Social Regis
ter" are represented in the mag
nificently decorated dancing clubs
that have taken the places of the
lobster palaces and the other even
ing at the Club Lido, where Maurice
and his new partner, Barbara Ben
nett, sister of "Connie,' who made
the flapper famous. are now dancing.
/ noted Pete" Widener and his at
tractive young wife. who has just lie
covered from n serious illness, enter
tanning as guests "Pete's" sister. Fiji
Widener Leidy, Genevieve Clcndenin
and the latter's cavalier, "Alcc" d. d.
Pratt.
The Wideners. it would seem. now
pass only the week ends at the palatial
"Lynncwood Hail. at Elkins Park,