Music: Muny

In St. Louis last week fashionable Westsiders were having their dinners earlier than usual while urchins on the North and South side were packing up sandwiches at home. Then Westsiders, Northsiders and Southsiders by the thousands thronged to the outdoor theatre in gladed Forest Park for the beginning of Municipal Opera. "Muny" opera, which is not opera at all but light summer music, is so dear to the heart of all St. Louisans that not one of its many guarantors has ever lost a penny by his civic generosity.

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