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...were blatantly unqualified for the roles they were given. Blonde Jean Tennyson, wife of President Camille Dreyfus of Celanese Corp. of America, starred in Pagliacci, La Boheme, Faust. Rosalinda Morini, a local coloratura who sings off pitch, was the heroine in Traviata. One Mildred Gerber, a protegee of Alderman Jacob M. Arvey, trilled hesitantly as Lucia di Lammermoor. Though Chicago opera audiences are notably easy to please, there was vigorous hissing when Tenor John Pane-Gasser appeared in Il Trovatore, uncontrolled laughter at Virginia Pemberton who as Micaela in Carmen gave the season's most inept performance. In Carmen...
...occult that New York Representative Samuel Dickstein should have risen in Congress latt week to call Realmleader Hitler a madman, a mur derer and the protagonist of an insane theory of government. They saw the in visible hand of Jewry in a proposal by a New York City alderman to forbid public showing of the swastika. To Germans, however, it was thrilling to read of the prompt, virile reaction of hyphenated German-Americans in New York to Mayor LaGuardia. "We are prepared to meet violence with violence!" roared the Fuhrer of the Friends of New Germany in South Brooklyn. Karl...
SIRS. We'd like to know from the Rev. Robert M. Hardee: What would Jesus read? LESLEY ALDERMAN Lake Kushaqua...
Visiting Washington last week, the Right Honorable Alderman Alfred Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin, sat down to listen to a radio broadcast of the 97th running of the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. A reporter asked him who he thought would win. Lord Mayor Byrne called for pencil & pad, puffed out his cheeks, wrote down his selections: 1, Reynoldstown; 2, Blue Prince; 3, Thomond II. The announcer said: "They...
...years, however, the Aldermanic candidates for Sheriff, prohibited by equally venerable tradition from campaigning for office, lost the election. In 1922 Stephen Killik, then neither knight nor Alderman, beat the Aldermanic candidate for the shrievalty. Five years later he was elected Alderman and started his climb...