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Cost Of French Opera Boxes

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
November
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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When the oíd Marquis de Casa Riera, who had for many years the great Entre Colonnes box on the right side - for which he paid, if I remeinber rightly, L1,200 a year, aud whicb, though he was blind, he filled every night with pretty women- died some i 5 years ago, tbere was a hot flutter of excitement in the Paris of the opera as to what wonld become of the Enccession to the box. After a palpitating stmggle of influences, efforts and diplomacy, equal in emotion to the contest between ülysses and the Telamonian Ajax for the armor of Achules, the nephew and heir of the old marquis managed to keep the box for one uight a week - he could not obtain more - and it was won for each of the other nights by persons of the highest place, who had been longing for it impatiently for years. An ordinary box for one night a week costs frora L240 to L320 a year, according to its size and situation. The combat for boxes is rmceasing. It is one of the features of the rich life of Paris, and to those who know the people and the circumstauces the combat is diverting to watch. - Blackwood's Magazine.

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Ann Arbor Courier