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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Until last week the Joneses and the Laughlins must have thought they had outsmarted Financier Eaton, for as soon as Mr. Girdler was made president he bought a $140,000 home in Sewickley, smart suburb, began to make his name known to other Pittsburgh families than his employers, seemed definitely settled there. But last week he resigned from Tones & Laughlin to be "actively engaged in the development of plans affecting the iron and steel industry." It was evident that the Eaton interests had. won, especially when two days later R. J. Wysor, general manager and assistant to President Girdler, also...
Manhattan and Chicago each have one permanent opera company (see pp. 52 & 54). Philadelphia has three. Last week all three began the season. The Philadelphia Grand Opera Company, under new Conductor Emil Mynarski, presented Carmen in French with Sophie Braslau. The Philadelphia Civic Opera, under Conductor Alexander Smallens, gave Prince Igor in Russian with a Russian cast and ballet. The Pennsylvania Grand Opera gave Boito's Mefistofele in Italian. Most interesting to watch this year will be the Philadelphia Grand Opera, which begins its first season in cooperation with Mrs. Edward Bok's Curtis Institute of Music...
...Angeles, Artur Rodzinski whose U. S. activities have heretofore been in Philadelphia, began as conductor of the Philharmonic...
...looks like a man of money. You would think him a financier, and not inaccurately. But he is also a power in the social and not wealth-despising Protestant Episcopal Church. His name is Monell Sayre. His eminence in the church began when it became apparent that Episcopalian ministers should be pensioned and famed Bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts, stepping in where others had failed, raised $9,000,000. Bishop Lawrence's aide in that effort, then secretary, now executive vice president of the Pension Fund of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was and is substantial, trim-trotting Monell Sayre...
Bedbugs are worth 12½? apiece, or 2½? more than grasshoppers. This valuation was announced last week when the University of Pittsburgh paid a bill for laboratory insect specimens. No sooner had the news been published than the University began receiving shipments of bedbugs. Many people who had hitherto ignored the bedbug acquired an academic curiosity about him, wondered just what...