As the Met Opera season begins, a society hostess continues to present the front all is well. Will this be her swan song?

As Cobina Wright hosts the opening activities for the 1930 Metropolitan Season, she wonders who also is hiding their losses from the Crash. Dowager Alice Vanderbilt now leases her prized balcony box to close friends. The glamorous attendees enjoy Verdi’s Aida opera.

Other people and subjects include: October 17th – 1930, Bill Wright, Alice Vanderbilt, Elsa Maxwell, Harold Vanderbilt, butlers Bruce & Fred, soprano Lucrezia Bori, Verdi opera Aida, Hamptons Sand Point mansion, TIME magazine, Metropolitan Opera – the Met, rise in thefts, Academy of Music, fire damage, Leopold Damrosch, Walter Damrosch, Arturo Toscanini, Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin, Chinese Monkey King, Neuschwanstein Castle, radio soap opera Painted Dreams, high schoolers first opera experience, and visiting Schloss Schonbrunn, Neuschwanstein, & Beijing Peking Opera House.

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Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.
Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands
Section 1 Music: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Freddy Gardner, Album Elegance 2
Section 2 Music: Just A Mood by Benny Carter & His Orchestra, Album Nightfall – Sophisticated Jazz Classics
Section 3 Music: If This Is Only The Beginning by Billy Ternent, Album Elegance
End Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands