Evening star., 1928-10-28
Social Season in New York
To Open Tomorrow Night
Formal ausuration of Activities at Metropolitan
Opera House to Be Followed by Scores
of Entertainments.
ct Entertainments.

NEW YORK, October 27.-New
York's social season will be opened for
mally on Monday night with the pre-
miere at the Metropolitan Opera House,
when Three Kings will be the at
traction. Following it comes the Ma
tional Horse Show at Madison Square
Garden and then the entertainments
for the debutantes, luncheons, recep-
tions. dinners and dances being given
by the score each day until after the
Christmas holidays. The season reaches
lis height between Christmas and the
New Year, when as many as a dozen
dances sometimes are given in one
night. the debutantes and the boys
and girls home from school and COL
lege going on from one to another.
The debuta ntes already have had sew
eral parties given in their honor, but
most of the dances have taken place at
country clubs and estates on Long
Island. Only one has been given in
the city. that in honor of Miss Kath-
arine Elm Douglas, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Archibald Douglas, at their
home in Spuyten-Duyvi.
There are few changes in the person.
mel row of the Metropolitan Opera
House this season. No boxes have been
sold since last Winter but in three
cases there have been a change in con-
troll by arrangements within families.
1t is the custom In the list to name the
owner first and then give the names
Ct suntenants for the opera, if any. Last
year Box 80 stood in the name of the
Payne Whitney estate, but this year
Harry Payne Whitney appears as the
owner and the name Of his late broth
er disappears from the Metropolitan
roster. Mrs. Francis P. Garvan appears
as a tenant here.
The estate of George G. Haven was
rated last year in the owner position
after Box 25, but this year Mr.. For
svth Wickes is named first Richard
Van Nest Gambrill now appears as the
owner of Box 90, his mother, Mrs.
Richard Gambrill, having died since
the previous list came out.
Clarence H. Mackay being in mourn
Ing fcr his mother Mrs. John w. Mack
az, has not taken box. Last Winter
he had the r. Fulton Cutting loge
for certain performances. Mrs. George
T. Brokaw takes that box for the open
ing night.
Astor's Box Engaged for Opening.
Vincent Astor's box No. Z, has been
taken for the opening and for odd
Mondays by William T. Dewart. Mrs.
Percy A. Rockefeller has taken Mrs.
E H. Harrimans box for the even We'd
neSdays. Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn,
head of the American Museum Of Nat
ural History, has taken Commodore Ar
thur CurtiSs aJmes' Box IL for odd
Wednesdays and Mrs. Archer M. Hunt
ington for some other performances.
Mrs H. Kierstede Hudson, daughter
of the late Reginald de Koven, had the
box of Miss Iselin, No. Is, for some
performances last year, but it Is not
listed this season. j. j. Watson has it
for the opening H Edward Manville
and his family and friends will hear the
opera from box II, which he purchased
last year from Mrs. Henry White and
her sister. Mrs. Hamilton Mex Twombly,
who withdrew from the opera after
many years.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, ST.. who
owns box 81, had Mrs Charles Henry
Coster as a tenant last year. but this
Winter no one is listed as sharing her
loge
j. Pierpont Morgan, as usual. will
have box IS, Mrs. Ogden Goelet viii
be in No. and Robert Goelet in "a.
In box s, which Frazier Jelke bought
from William K. Vanderbilt and his
brother, Harold Sterling Vanderbilt.
r. j. Goerke will hear the Wednesday
night operas. T. Suffern Taller was