Evening star., 1927-10-30
Premiere at Metropolitan
To Open New York Season
United Hunts Meet and National Horse Show
to Follow-Lons and Brilliant Social
Period Is Forecast.

NEW YORK. October %. - New
Yorks social season will be lnauSur-
ated formally on Monday night with
the premiere at the metropolitan Opera
House. This is the earliest opening in
che history of the social life of the
city. and the season promises to be
Il long and brilliant one. Following
Tho opening Of the opera Will come
the United Hunts meet at Belmont
Park on Saturday. then election day
md the United Hunts dinner on the
following Friday. November I TO l.
will come the annual National Horse
Show at Madison Square Garden. The
horse show breakfast will be held Il
week from tomorrow ut the Hotel
Piltmore. with John McE. Bowman
acting as host. Prominent Cluhmen
and horsemen from all over the COun-
try. from Canada and Europe will at
tend.
No event in New York's social life
can compare with the partcUrc at the
Metropolitan. On this night society
from all over the country. members
Of the diplomatic corps and Federal
officials and prominent foreigners now
in the country will be found in the
boxes Of The famous Golden Horse
shoe. known as the parterre row.
There are comparatively few changes
this year. Since last season only one
parterre box has changed ownership,
No. i having been bought from Mrs.
Henry White and Mrs. Hamilton Mex.
Twombly by II. Edward ManVille. The
price paid was not revealed when the
sale became public last February. but
1t was said to he in the neighhOrh0od
of $500 600. 1t will be the first time
in years that Mrs. White and Mrs
TWombly have been missing from the
famous row. They always had a dis
tinguiShed party with them and were
among the most noted persons in the
house. 1t marks the Withdrawal of
another Vanderbilt family from a par
tprre box. William *. Vanderbilt and
Harold Sterling Vanderbilt disposed of
their box, No. G, over Il year ago to
Frazier Jelke.
Mr.. ManVille, whose name now Of
ficially appears on the opera record as
the owner of No. II, does not make
public the names, if any. of those
who may share the box with him at
the various performances. but he and
Mrs. Manville and their daughter,
Miss EStelle Manvile, whoNare now
in the South, plan to be present on
opening night and will entertain many
of their friends there during the sea-
son, one of the pleasantest compli-
ments host or hostess may pay.
Mrs. White and Mrs. Twombly will
be missed from the place they oc-
cupied so long. The death of Mr..
White, the former Ambassador to
France. placed that family in mourn
ing and its members probably would
not have occupied the box even had
they retained ownership
Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr re-
tains box 81, of course. and Mrs.
Charles Henry Coster has it for Fri
days. Mrs. Vanderbilt. wife of Brig
Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Mrs.
Orme Wilson have box 3, which they
use alternately. Mrs. +. Reeve Mer-
rift again takes this Vanderbilt loge.
for Wednesday nights. Last year
William II. Vanderbilt and Mrs.
Harry c. Gushing. Sd, grandchildren
of Mrs. Vanderbilt, sa, had No. 81 for
certain performances, but their
names do not appear in this years
LIST. Mrs. Gushing, the former Cath
leen Vanderbilt. is the daughter of the
late Reginald G. Vanderbilt.
An interesting name in the par
terre list though net of an owner, is
that of Miss Huguette Clark, the
young daughter of Mrs. William A.
Clark and the late Senator Clark, of
Montana. Her mother, as last season,
is to occupy Mrs. +. II. Harriman's
box on odd Thursday evenings, but
Miss Huguette takes loge No. for
her very own use at the evening matt
nees. She doubtless inherits a love of
music and art from her father, whose
mansion, at Fifth avenue and
Seventy-seventh street, now razed.
housed a wonderful pipe organ and
his gallery of notable pictures.
Mrs. Robert Ogden Bacon has Vim
cent Astor's box, No. Z, for the even
Monday performa and for the
opening night Mrs. Bacon has Mrs.
Z. II. Harriman's box.
The estate of T.lbridge T. Gerry now
controls box No. %, where the late
Commodore Gerrys name stood so
many years. Walter J. Salmon again
has the box for opening night and on
ODD Mondays. Clarence Dillon and
Joseph Ferris Simmons appear as new
Iessees for certain other performa nces.
Gen Charles II. Sheriff. has taken
NO. y. Mrs. Richard Gambrill's box.
Tor even Fridays, and Mrs. George
Mesta has the loge for odd Mondays.
clarence II. Mackay has the X. Fulton
cutting box for the opera premiere.
Frazier Jelke has leased the box he
purchased from the Messrs. Vanderbilt
to I. Suffern Taller for the openjng
and to Aymar Johnson and Charles NJ.
lark Tor certain other performances.
Myron Taylor has taken Otto IT
kahn's box for the even Monday per
1ormances and Charles Lawrence
I;iker has the Walter Phelps Bliss box
Tor even Friday nights.
Hubert 7. Parsons will occupy Mrs.
Proctor's loge, No. %. the opening
night and the subsequent MONDAYS.
ihis IS the box that. William Ross
Proctor bought years ago, for the first
lhe placlns these precious bits of
real estate in the 5000. 900 class.
with the committee organized and
en- entertainment program arranged
the opening of the new sherry. Neither
land, at Fifty-ninth street and Fifth
avenue, on November by the Tsuda