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Cosmopolite, metropolite, he conceives the function of the company to be the giving of opera in the best possible manner. This is also the conception of Manager Gatti-Casazza; their consultations are cooperative, for where Mr. Kahn's Lincoln-waits—there waits harmony.
The Box Holders. As feudal barons clung to their castles and patents of nobility, so the elect of Manhattan's social register cling to the boxes of the Metropolitan. This year Box 31 and Box 35 will be empty when the opening curtain rises upon Giaconda. Not seeing Mrs. Vanderbilt in 31, operagoers will recall the recent death of her son, Reginald C. Vanderbilt. And J. P. Morgan's absence from Box 35 will recall to many that Mrs. Morgan died last July.
In Box 19, however, Judge and Mrs. Elbert H. Gary will be remarked as newcomers. For years they have attended the Metropolitan's opening night in the Iselin box (15). Now they have purchased Box 19 from the estate of Harry C. Frick. At them steelworkers in the topmost gallery will proudly point.
-*"The soundest economic thinking in this country at this time is being done by Mr. Kahn."
*Operatic theatres of Genoa.
*Also he rides in a Rolls-Royce.