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...split future profits. He was six months slow in making good his boast, but the friends decided that 100%, in 18 months was fair enough. Now J. Edward Jones has royalties covering some 250,000 acres of oil land. He has offices in Manhattan, Boston, Tulsa, Independence, Kan., and Dresden, Germany. Last week he merged seven of his royalty companies into Consolidated American Royalty Corp. with holdings worth $8,000,000 which last year produced $1,402,000 gross revenue. Mr. Jones will be the company's president. Its chairman will be Frank Haskell, former president of Tidal...
Recognition came to her some twelve years ago after a performance in a Swiss kurhaus before an audience of the sick and neurasthenic. In Germany, where pretty, tinted dancing never flourished, she has built up a successful school in Dresden, inspired hundreds of imitators, won thousands of converts. Wigman interviews last week were in the vein of "I love life!" and "I am lying on the earth and am one with the elemental things, the primal things. It is as though my body were filled with life. My body sings and I listen and I try to translate that music...
...Elysees last week to open, dedicate and inspect the completed home of a collection appraised at $5,000,000 and offered to the city of Paris nine years ago. For nearly an hour he wandered through beautifully paneled rooms, expressing his presidential approval of cabinets of Sevres and Meissen ("Dresden") porcelain, jeweled watches, Battersea enamel, signed furniture from the great French ebenistes, a priceless series of tapestries from cartoons by Boucher, and the gem of the collection, "The Burgomaster's Daughter" by Lucas Cranach. Impulsively, M. le President rushed forward and wrung the hand of the spry little...
...operas new to the repertoire and 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...
Died. Dr. Leopold Auer, 85, famed violinist, teacher, transcriber of violin music; of pneumonia, at a sanitarium in Dresden, Saxony. Born at Veszprim, Hungary, he studied at Budapest, Vienna. Hanover. He married a Russian, Nadine Pelikan, was named professor at the Imperial Conservatory in Petrograd. His pupils persuaded him to go to New York in 1918, where he divorced his first wife, married a Mme Bogutska-Stein. His greatest pupils: Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz, Toscha Seidel, Efrem Zimbalist...