![]() It became apparent over that season, however, that the late night music hall performances were resulting in minor scandal, while the members were increasingly availing themselves of the opera box. Members would thus attend the opera and then enjoy the vaudeville entertainments afterwards. ![]() ![]() īy the second year of the Vaudeville Club's existence, the Metropolitan Opera had resumed performances, and the club acquired the use of the large opera box that adjoined the club. In its early days, the Vaudeville Club provided a venue for Society (and especially its wives and daughters) to enjoy, without venturing among the general public, illustrious and accomplished music hall performers such as Vesta Victoria, Ward & Volkes, Walter Jones, Mlle Violette, Papinta and her serpentine dances, and pantomimist Pilar-Morin. Known as the "Vaudeville Club", members and their guests dined and watched performances from a miniature stage designed by Stanford White, a founding member. The club was founded in 1893 when a collection of New York Society gentlemen created a private supper club in a lobby of the old Metropolitan Opera House on West 39th Street/ Broadway while the back of the house was under renovation after a fire. ![]() 3 Support for the Metropolitan Opera Association. ![]()
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