Word: dillinghams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voiced Fritzi from the big-chested titans of the opera. But diminutives did her no more harm than the rumored tiffs with Sembrich and Emma Fames, whose ears she claimed to have boxed. Instead they brought her a vogue all her own. After three years at the Metropolitan, Charles Dillingham offered her the then fabulous sum of $1,000 a week, a company of her own and roles made to order. Immediately, and despite the objections of her new husband, Baron von Bardeleben, she accepted and became the light opera star...
...Dillingham hospitality (long a bachelor, he married Miss Louise Gaylord of Chicago) that he is known as the "host of Hawaii." Few able visitors arrive in the Islands without a letter...
...prime Dillingham enthusiasm is polo. He organized the Hawaii Polo & Racing Association, developed inter-island games, captained many a Hawaiian , team journeying to the mainland...
...long ago the U. S. Polo Association: called upon Hawaii for ponies for an international match. Sportsman Dillingham contributed two prize mounts, with the proviso: "If anything happens to them, we are to stand the damage." Harry Payne Whitney did his best to return this patriotic courtesy by helping Mr. Dillingham pick out some fine Virginia mares and serving them free at the Whitney stud, to give the Islands a good new strain...
...clerk calls him "Walter." Old native-women selling Lei at the steamers josh with him in Hawaiian. When an enterprising young Jew sought to marry the daughter of a potent Gentile ship-operator, the girl's father, distressed, went to 'Walter' for help, advice. Said Mr. Dillingham: "Go on and let her marry him. She could do a whole lot worse...