Word: dux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirteen years ago the Swift chorus was organized as a Wartime songfest whose purpose was to sell Liberty bonds. Annual concerts were given after the War. At one of these, six years ago, Polish Soprano Claire Dux was the soloist, the guest of honor at a Swift plant luncheon. There she and Packer Charles Henry Swift met, became enamored of one another. Two years later they married...
...sentiment, not for gold, Soprano Dux-Swift was soloist at last week's Swift concert, given as usual at Orchestra Hall under Conductor David Alva Clippinger. The house, packed with Chicago socialites, long and loudly applauded her, demanded and got five encores. Another feature was the first performance of Outward Bound, Swift-prize-winning chorus composed by Franz Bornschein to a poem by Catherine Parmenter. Composer Bornschein, no Swift employe, has three times won the annual $100 prize. Honorable mention this year was awarded to Abram Moses of Baltimore and Gustav Mehner of Grove City...