(Original Caption) Opening Night for Met Manager. New York: A gala audience was on hand for tonight's opening of the Metropolitan Opera, inaugurating Rudolph Bing's regime as general manager. Shown before the presentation of Verdi's "Don Carlo" took the spotlight are (left to right) Gilbert Kahn; Rudolph Bing; Mrs. John Berry Ryan; and George A. Sloan. Tonight's performance marks the first time that a well-known theater director, Margaret Webster, has undertaken the staging of an opera at the Metropolitan.
