Show Golden Horseshoe Blazes I 1 In Its Customary Fashion Nothing Changed as Grand Opera Returns to New NewYork's NewYork's NewYork's Yorks York's Met B By Associated Press NEW YORK Dec 27 27 Opera Opera 1081 years old in this country returned I Ito to the Met last night returned to the old red carpeted house scene of Farrar's debut and Carusos Caruso's farewell and found itself unchanged The dowagers were there in ermine and the debutantes The mayor ol ot New York too in the eleventh row and the composer of the opera in a first tier box As many as five diamond bracelets gleamed on one arm The customary pearl glasses showed up in white gloved hands And society furred and smiled in the golden horseshoe It was Peter by Deems Ta Taylor Taylor New lor New Yorks York's first opening night opera by an American composer on on which the curtains parted Lucrezia Lucrezia Lu Lu- Bori Borl who led the campaign for funds this year ear sang The Duchess Duch Duch- ess of Towers She wore a tiara too All AU the ladies did from did from those in the orchestra to the ones up next t to the roof In the red and gold boxes white predominated with flame lame color second sec see ond and then green There were too those women who wear purple no matter what happens and some of shades of plum As to flowers lowers orchids led with gardenias gardenias gar gar- second violets trailing More than a century had rolled by since grand opera came to New York in a theater lighted by oil lamps lamps- going thence to Niblo's Garden where patrons had a sherry cobbler between acts Grass grew on Broadway then This the r recalled d recalled end and nd I Ithe the fact that the Met itself is a half hall century old It was Gattl fortieth ann anni- sr k fI t Mi 1 d k c 1 q Lucrezia Borl as an impresario And hi his three thousand eight hundred and six six- ty-eighth ty production at the Mel Met |