The Critic

The Plain People

"The plain people waited in line for hours to get standing room, listening intently and, as always, showed better musical manners than people sitting in boxes."

[Flower peddler near old Metropolitan Opera House, New York]

[People behind police barricade at Metropolitan Opera, New York]

[Hailing a cab outside the Metropolitan Opera, New York]

With a song in their hearts

[Metropolitan Opera audience members, New York]

[Opening night audience at Metropolitan Opera, New York]

[Intermission at Metropolitan Opera, New York]

[Intermission at Metropolitan Opera, New York]

[Intermission at Metropolitan Opera, New York]

[Intermission at Metropolitan Opera, New York]

[Metropolitan Opera foyer, New York]

Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt

[Grace Wilson Vanderbilt at Metropolitan Opera, New York]

[Man and woman at Metropoltan Opera, New York]

Stanley Kubrick, sitting, seen from behind

[Stanley Kubrick directing Tracy Reed as Miss Scott on the set of "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"]

[George C. Scott as General "Buck" Turgidson and Tracy Reed as Miss Scott on the set of "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"]

[Weegee photographing Tracy Reed as Miss Scott on the set of "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"]

Kaleidoscope Image

[Peter Bull as Russian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky on War Room set from "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"]

[George C. Scott as General "Buck" Turgidson being hit with a cream pie in the War Room on the set of "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"]