Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1949 — Page 14

= Happened Los Night— _ Culture Gets Tryout at Met Best People Listen to Opera; Forego First Night Capers

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Nov. 24—The Metropolitan Opera open-

ing may yet become civilized.

Equipped with six new synonyms for the word “drunk,” : I tuxedoed to the Met opening the other night and didn't "Never again. it tent worth itr

need one of them.

Our Best People didn’t get under the influence of any- mr il Oh, sure, ite, who on coming ito the lobby Wish I'd Said That

thing but opera. there were many luscious women — and vice versa —| waggling around in ermine, but| the only personality who got over-| \§ was elder-| ly Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, “the Queen,” who. from her wheel-| <halr, swung her cane at photog-| raphers. i “I'll hit you. I'l! hit you—all of you,” she warned them. But she didn't and I felt that! the old lady—out in public in a wheelchair for the first time—/ was more to be sympathized with than censured for her temper. Gossip that the Met, In its desire to take openings out of the street brawl class, might bar some eccentrics, may have had effect. { . »y r WE REPORTERS stood around Eherry’s bar all evening waiting for Mrs, Betty (Legs) Henderson to come in and put her 'gams on: the table, and she never showed, although she was in the joint. | we ‘Mrs. Henderdon’'s" "Deen

said, “What fools you are to stand here looking at us!” “We think you're the fools, one reporter replied.

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