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...comparatively brief operatic career, 29-year-old Mezzo Lane has made something of a specialty of dying gracefully. The daughter of an immigrant Russian harnessmaker, she heard her first music in a Trenton synagogue where her father was baritone cantor. Gussie Seit became Gloria Lane in her teens, after she won a Y.M.H.A. amateur contest singing Let Yourself Go. She abandoned a $40-a-week secretarial job to win the role of the secretary in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul, later sang the role of Desideria in Menotti's Saint oj Bleecker Street, a part that, like...
...arranging the financing for two 90,000-ton. super-economy transatlantic ocean liners. If the German government will give a guarantee for 70% of the costs of the ships, a plan that German Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard intends to discuss in New York this month with Promoter H. B. Cantor and other principals, Clark figures that he can raise $112 million out of the estimated $160 million cost "in 30 days." With the "floating hotels," Cantor plans to carry transatlantic passengers for as little...
...EDDIE CANTOR Beverly Hills, Calif. 1§ West Melbourne Stadium (seating capacity: 10,000) averaged two-thirds full for each of the four Sinatra concerts...
...youngster ever shows up at the shack that serves as a synagogue. Friday nights and Saturdays, on the Jewish Sabbath, Cantor Kaplan (there is no rabbi) leads prayers for 30 persons, more women than men. Last Yom Kippur, the most important Jewish holiday, 400 worshipers walked to the little house, about half a mile from the paved city center...
Crooner Eddie Fisher, who can use some good publicity these days, set up a $2,000 award in modern music and a $4,000 award for classical music at Brandeis University, both named for banjo-eyed Vaudevillian Eddie Cantor, who gave Fisher his first show-biz break nine years ago. Appointed advisers for the scholarships: Cantor for the modern, dynamic Conductor Leonard Bernstein for the classical...