Manhattanites luxuriating last week where the weather was warm thanked the good fortune which enabled them to escape an influenza epidemic so severe, according to outland newspapers, that the Metropolitan Opera House had been forced to close.
True it was that the Metropolitan Opera Company was worse hit than at any time since the influenza scourge of 1918. The sick list mounted to 20.
But out-of-town reports were exaggerated. The Metropolitan did not close. It has never closed prematurely, no matter what its difficulties. Casts were shuffled about, performances given adequately....
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