The lady in the second box at the Tivoli, 1905 (1912)

Personal1912

WILL the lady who occupied, with others, the second box from the stage on the right hand side of the second floor of the Tivoli, on the evening of Sunday, the 12th day of February, 1905, while Mme. Tetrazzini sang in "La Traviata," please communicate with box numbered 150 of The Call?

San Francisco Call, August 30, 1912, p. 14. View the original page at the Library of Congress

In plain English

The writer is looking for a woman who sat with others in the second box from the stage, on the right, on the second floor of the Tivoli opera house, on Sunday evening, February 12, 1905, while Luisa Tetrazzini sang in La Traviata. She is asked to write to box 150 at the Call.

Who wrote it, and to whom

Newspaper	San Francisco Call, San Francisco, California
Date	August 30, 1912, page 14
Written by	Not stated
Addressed to	One woman, seen at the opera
Where	Replies to a Call box

Context

Luisa Tetrazzini made her American debut at the Tivoli on January 11, 1905, as Gilda in Rigoletto, a month before the evening in this notice. The Tivoli, at Mason and Eddy streets, was destroyed in the earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906, so by the time this ran, the box itself was gone. The writer remembered the box, the floor, the date, and the opera, and was still asking seven years later; the notice ran on several days in late August and early September 1912. It shared a column with a widow’s ad also in this archive. For more on opera and the personal ad, see Personal Ads in Literature; for where people in the Bay Area post missed connections now, see our guide to personal ads in San Francisco.

In the Personals Dictionary

Will the lady who Communicate with Box, care of the office

Tagged

missed connections theater

How to cite this ad

“The lady in the second box at the Tivoli, 1905.” Personal advertisement, San Francisco Call (San Francisco, California), August 30, 1912, p. 14. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1912-san-francisco-call-tivoli-traviata-tetrazzini.html.

Public domain in the United States: published before 1931.

Transcribed from the page image and checked against the original; spelling and punctuation are as printed, and words broken across lines are rejoined. The figures in the box number are the least clear part of the print. Capital letters are also as printed: papers set the first line of each ad in capitals, so the capitals stop wherever that line ended, sometimes in the middle of a word.

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