PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

Since it has no civic company of its own Boston must of necessity depend on Chicago for the opera season. For two weeks all roads lead to Huntington Avenue and Mary Garden's adventures are bruited about the streets by yodeling news boys. But short though the festival is for residents of Boston it is even shorter for Harvard students. Due to the devious machinations of booking offices the Chicago Company invariably plays in Boston during the hectic Mid year period when students have either turned scholastic recluses or have field homeward for a brief vacation. When they return sent are unavailable at any price and in a few days the Opera House again becomes the morgue for third rate ballets and home talent musical comedies.

To ask the managers to postpone the Boston engagement would be futile since any such request would need figures and collegiate receipts for substantiation; nor is the average college student supposed to wander from the histrionics of Keiths revenues and the Metropolitan. There are however a few devotees of the opera who have succumbed to the allurements of a college education. To them the solution is the old and expensive one the midnight to New York.