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Married. Miss Anne Elizabeth Whelan, daughter of Charles A. Whelan, United Cigar Stores President, to Gilbert W. Kahn, son of Otto H. Kahn, head of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., famed bankers; in Manhattan. Present were Guilio Gatti-Casazza, Frances Alda, Lucrezia Bori, Antonio Scotti, John McCormack, Walter Damrosch, Josef Stransky, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew W. Mellon, Elisabeth Marbury, Elsie de Wolfe, Charles D. Gibson and 1,000 others. The wedding cake was seven feet high...
...France (French)?Mme. Frances Alda, Metropolitan Opera soprano; Mrs. Irene Castle Treman McLaughlin, onetime dancer; Anne Nichols, author-producer of Abie's Irish Rose...
...musical aristocracy are not lacking. There is Caruso, whom the diva kissed; Richard Strauss and Puccini, her intimate friends; Franz Schreker, whose music she loathes ("His stories are morbid and unhealthy; his scores, vocally, are the most terrible ever written") ; Geraldine Farrar, whom she generously admires; Gatti-Casazza, Frances Alda, Marcella Sembrich her teacher, "strict, and, when I sometimes gave her occasion, stern." The choicest bits are the naive little confessions. "The jewels I wear on the stage are all imitation." ... "I might as well state categorically that my hair, all of it, is absolutely my own and grows naturally...
Giulio Gatti-Casazza, General Director of the Metropolitan Opera Company: "In the New York Supreme Court, A. Jaeckel & Co., furriers, sued me, demanded $2,228.50 for garments said to have been purchased by Mme. Frances Alda, my wife. Attorneys said that several bills had been sent to me, that I ignored them." George B. Cutten, President of Colgate University: "In Utica, I drove Dr. Raymond B. Fosdick to the train, was arrested, charged with driving 40 miles an hour. I pled not guilty, demanded trial. Reports said that I, if convicted, would have to serve from one to five days...
...again played by the Metropolitan Opera Company until last week. Then Marta was produced with Mr. Beniamino Gigli in Caruso's role of Lionel. There was new scenery by Joseph Urban and new comedy business embellishing "one of the most delectable of the tutti-frutti operas." Mme. Alda was lovely as Lady Harriet and Mr. Gigli was lovelorn. His voice was a delight "only exceeded by the great Caruso...