Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit, Mich...
...eyed and reformed, the wealthier husbands of Detroit sifted back from the New York Automobile Show last week full of new orders and bicarbonate of soda. Meanwhile Dr. Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner had done his best to entertain their wives. At the Detroit Institute of Arts of which he has been director for eleven years, Dr. Valentiner opened the largest, most important exhibition of the work of Frans Hals ever held in the U. S. Of some 300 known paintings by that hearty old Dutchman, about 80 are in the U. S. Fifty of these were in last week...
...usual, lean, immaculate Dr. Valentiner had a sensation to put his show into the news columns. Among the canvases in Detroit was a small self-portrait of Frans Hals, baggy-eyed, slightly disheveled (see cut). It had just been sold by Manhattan's E. & A. Silberman Galleries to Dr. H. Klaus of Minneapolis. Helsingfors, Haarlem, and the Friedsam Collection in the Metropolitan Museum have other versions of the same picture. The last has always been considered the original. Not so, cried Dr. Valentiner last week. The Klaus canvas, he maintained, was the only genuine...
...took to the road. José Iturbi, the elfin little Spaniard who sometimes conducts, was working his way up the Pacific Coast. In Manhattan such steady oldtimers as Harold Bauer and Ossip Gabrilowitsch were drawing their own faithful audiences. Artur Schnabel was doubling his success of last season. In Detroit Myra Hess, greatest of women pianists, began a tour of 40 concerts. Ignace Jan Paderewski, at 74 the world's best-selling pianist, is spending the winter in his villa on Lake Geneva but he hints at a U. S. tour for next year...
...Metropolitan Opera and radio performances, is giving 66 concerts. As he was last year, he will be the season's biggest moneymaker. Baritone John Charles Thomas, now touring California, has 64 dates. Soprano Dusolina Giannini, whose teacher was the late Marcella Sembrich (see below), went sadly to Detroit last week. The increasingly popular Lotte Lehmann sang at the Metropolitan, then in Washington and Princeton. Mary Garden was resting in Manhattan before her last Debussy recital. After a two years' absence big Basso Feodor Chaliapin will come zooming back to the U. S. this week, sing first in Kansas...