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looking ''engagingly like Henry of the cartoons" to Critic Claudia Cassidy of the Journal of Commerce. Sergei Prckofieff seated himself at a piano, neatly and precisely played with the orchestra his own Concerto No. 1. No stranger to Chicago was this 45-year-old Russian. There in 1921 both the caustic Concerto and Prokofieff's opera The Love for Three Oranges received the:r first performances. In Chicago last week on his seventh...
Lamented Journal of Commerce's Claudia Cassidy: "That amazing voice is gone, perhaps forever. Instead of cream velvet jeweled with coloratura splendor there is an unsteady little lyric soprano quavering like a sad ghost pleading for reincarnation." Wrote Daily News Critic Eugene Stinson: "She had command neither of voice nor of breath: Panic seized her and for three hours the public watched one of the pluckiest fights the theatre has ever seen. Mme Galli-Curci's vocal estate improved but in the end it had not yet attained a suitable degree of competency." Few days later Critic Stinson...
...aria from Thomas' Mignon, squatted rather than bowed to accept a bouquet of chrysanthemums from the Swedish Choral Society. But what brought the Chicago audience to its feet and earned Singer Wettergren five encores was a group of Swedish and Finnish songs. She sang these, according to Critic Claudia Cassidy of the business-like Journal of Commerce, "with such richness of voice, such simplicity of phrasing and such communicative charm that they enchanted an audience almost 100 per cent at sea as to their meaning...
...turn finished, wrapped herself in a brown blanket, sat in a camp chair ostentatiously looking in the opposite direction while her rivals sprang off the low board. Obviously the most personable contestant in the event, she was also, in the opinion of five judges, the ablest by a shade. Claudia Eckert, a mop-haired, 18-year-old Northwestern amphibian who, like famed Katherine ("Minnow") Rawls, is indiscriminately adept at all forms of aquatic competition. Last year she won the A. A. U. high diving championship. Last week she lost this title to 13-year-old Marjorie Gestring of Los Angeles...
...year-old daughter and a middle-aged don fell in love. Her younger daughter wanted to leave home, go to the U. S. with her rich aunt. Her husband at last, and on his own, landed a promising job. All these things upset Claudia. After pretending to herself that she had carefully considered pro and con, she did her domineering best to put a stop to all of them. And if she had not been a bad driver, and had not been so tired one rainy night, she might have succeeded. It would have seemed blasphemous even to think...