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Show Darzling diamonds and audacious aigrettes, proud plush and slinky silk and satin, silver slippers and smiling sisters with well polished teeth were much in evidence. A pair of tickets brought $150. Standing room was $1 per foot or $2 per person. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt had two boxes instead ol her usual one. You may have already imagined that it's the season's opening of the Metropolitan opera house in N. Y.. N. Ythat the A nunc in ted Press described. From the foregoing even the dullest wit would comprehend that it wa8 a great success suc-cess and a noteworthy event for the big city' carriage trade. Down at the bottom of the piece in the paper it says the bill was "Tristan und Isolde," a couple of Aryans whose love affair went on the rocks because the lady was a king's wife already and the whole thing got mixed up with duels, an elopement that went haywire and a lot of other complications. The worst of these was that when Isolde was going in a boat to meet Tristan ' he stood up and said, "Wiegehts, Isolde!" and dropped dead. This was too bad, because the king was coming in another boat to tell them it would be all right by him if they got married. The piece aays that the main longs were rendered by Kirsten Flagstead and Lauritz Mcl-chior. Mcl-chior. He sang here once) and real well. Neatly vr I ybrKty-rHs-ftfirrrr-hpr nn tnCTadlfir The words and the music were by Wagner first name not given, but probably the senator who is trying to get everybody to build a new house. Well, it's alwaya good to get the opening of an opera season over with. Then the customer who know good music when they hear it can go. Wagner' Plushy Opening A- DOUBLE rope of emeralds gleamed green on the throat of Mrs. Christian Holmes. On the head of Mrs. Clarence Mackay two tiara twinkled and there was a two-inch emerald flittering at the top of her osseous sternum. Libbjr Holman was there without stockings. |