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Edward L. Casey '19 and Arnold Horween '20 played together on the same football team in Casey's last year at college. Today the official announcement is made that Casey succeeds the Chicagoan as the director of Harvard's football destinies in the future. It is a happy coincidence that these two men who, both as undergraduates and as coaches, have done so much for Harvard football, should succeed each other in the position of head coach...
...illustrative of Chicago's increased interest in German music will be Wagner's Die Meistersinger and Smetana's Bartered Bride. New sopranos are Lotte Lehmann, famed in Vienna; Emma Redell, a native of Baltimore trained in Europe; Maria Rajdl of Dresden. New Contraltos: Sonia Sharnova, a Chicagoan trained abroad; Jenny Tourel of Montreal. New tenors: Belgian Octave Dua already known in Chicago; Oscar Colcaire, naive of Lexington, Ky., onetime first violinist in the Cincinnati symphony; Paul Althouse, of Reading, Pa., for ten years with the Metropolitan; Frenchman Mario Laurence. New baritones: Jean Vieuille from the Paris Opera...
Although M-K had only 113 mi. of pipe when it was formed two years ago, it now has 800 mi. in addition to the lines being built, has 410,000 acres of gas land. Leading this aggressive development has been President Parish, 34, rich yacht-going Chicagoan. Young President Parish also formed Frank P. Parish Co. to distribute M-K stock. Recently this company canceled an underwriting agreement, returned about 1,000,000 shares to MK, which has also had 204,000 shares returned from investors who refused to accept delivery. Since the sale of this stock would have...
...Ambassador Frederic Moseley Sackett was to deliver at the World Power Conference (see p. 54). The Ambassador was in Paris at the time. Upon his return to Berlin one of his first callers was a stocky, white-headed gentleman with ruddy cheeks and a piercing eye which any alert Chicagoan would instantly have recognized as belonging to Samuel Insull, public utility primate of the Midwest (and Maine). Mr. Insull had come (the United Press discovered) to see the Ambassador about the Ambassador's proposed power speech. Mr. Insull had read the speech. He did not approve certain parts...
...Meistersinger and Smetana's Bartered Bride will be added to the repertoire. Four famed European artists have been engaged?Soprano Lotte Lehmann of the Vienna Staatsoper, Soprano Maria Rajdl (Dresden), Baritones Rudolf Bockelmann (Hamburg) and Eduard Habich (Berlin). A fifth newcomer will be Contralto Sonia Sharnova, a native Chicagoan who has toured for two seasons with the German Grand Opera Company...