Word: directorships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gatti. The season finds the Metropolitan high in the joys of tranquillity, prosperity, prestige. It is the 16th year of Mr. Giulio Gatti-Casazza's directorship. Few cares there are to vex the brows of impresario and Board of Directors. Deficits, the bane of opera, are not heard of. There are no violent dissensions that break upon the public ear. People of musing memory may be diverted to go back to the very different state of things that prevailed during Mr. Gatti's first years...
...abolishing the deficit. The standard of performances increased constantly. A war with Hammerstein came and, after many qualmy moments, was carried to victorious conclusion. Chicago opera competition was met without any serious loss of prestige. The great stars whom Gatti found waiting for him when he took the directorship passed with the years ? Caruso died and Farrar left the organization. Stars as great have not arisen to take their places, yet the standing of the opera has gone higher. Titta Ruffo and Gallf-Curci have created no new glories for the Metropolitan. Among the newcomers only Jeritza has achieved...
...Roland Hegedus, sometime resident in Chicago and former Hungarian Minister of Finance, is reported to have recovered from the effects of a mental collapse suffered two years ago. He has just left a private lunatic asylum to assume directorship of the Commercial Bank of Budapest...
...financial details, we are in the dark. The Metropolitan makes public no financial statement, but it is known that the opera company earns a clear profit, has been a paying proposition, in fact, for a number of seasons, since the early years of Mr. Gatti's directorship. It was reported that the profit for last season was $200,000. For this year the earnings are said to be less, because of new singers and new productions; something more than $100,000, says rumor. However, these sums are not called profits by the Metropolitan company. The name given is " surplus...
...possessed. Separate bureaus of foreign and domestic commerce are to be created and co-operation will be furthered between various trade organizations. Then, too, by giving to this department many of the duties which at present are assigned to other executive departments, such as the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Directorship of Public Roads, and to Inland and Coastwise Waterways Service, the power of the Secretary of Commerce will be increased beyond his former mere shadow of authority...