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...Died. Aida E. M. Birrel Iglehart. 52, Long Island horsewoman, polo sponsor, art patron, Chile-born wife of Importer D. Stewart Iglehart (president of W. R. Grace & Co. and Grace Steamship Co.), mother of Poloists Stewart Iglehart (8-goal handicap) and Philip Iglehart; of pneumonia; in Westbury...
...First to jump were the Swedes. So intent were they on carrying home the trophy that they had shrewdly kept their superb mounts out of some preliminaries, bringing them into the main event in the pink of condition. Performance showed their wisdom. Capt. Ernst Hallberg led off on Aida. a magnificent brown mare from the stables of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf. No faults. Then Lieut. Herbert Sachs on the grey gelding Orient. No faults. Finally Count Gustaf Fredrik von Rosen on brown Kornett. In a breathless minute he, too. made a perfect circuit. No team could beat the Swedes...
Four days after the Tribune's splurge. 40 trainloads of Texans celebrated Texas Day at the Fair and attended a Texan production of Aida in Soldier Field. Like the Festival, the production of Aida also had an angel. Texas newspapers reported that it was music-loving Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor, who acquired his first banking job and his wife in Texas. But Banker Traylor denied this, did not attend the performance (he was out of town). Real sponsor of the production was wealthy Mrs. John Wesley Graham, head of the Texas Music Teachers Association. Said she: "I expect...
...homerun in Falstaff earned him a $1,500 bonus from the Metropolitan management and opportunities which, stretching out into four distinct musical fields, combined to make him the most popularly known singer in the U. S. He was given increasingly important roles at the Metropolitan: Amonasro in Aida, Telramund in Lohengrin, Wolfram in Tannhauser, King Eadgar in The King's Henchman, Colonel Ibbetson in Peter Ibbetson, Jonny in Jonny Spielt Auf, the elder Germont in La Traviata, Sheriff Jack Ranee in The Girl of the Golden West...
...Aretaieon Clinic pending the arrival of complete documents from the U. S. He may well have recalled that the day of his arrest was the third anniversary of that glamorous night when his greatest public work, the new Chicago Civic Opera building, was opened to the triumphal overture from Aida...