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...Berlin 25 years ago Claire Dux was singing Wagnerian roles as few others could. When Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier was first put on in London she enchanted Covent Garden with her girlish Sophie. Next year Londoners heard her again in The Magic Flute, called her one of the best Mozart singers alive. She had three glorious years in Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen...
...Tuition for the course ("Opera - Stage Deportment - Dramatic Song''): $150. From hundreds of applicants, all of whom were supposed to have had training and to show great promise. Miss Garden selected 51. Nine qualified for scholarships given by such people as Mrs. Charles H. Swift (Soprano Claire Dux) and Mrs. Archibald Freer, who stipulated that her beneficiary must learn and sing an aria from her opera. Joan of Arc. Youngest pupil is a girl of 16, oldest a Chicago concert singer named Marie Zendt, fiftyish. Though Miss Garden began teaching with great gusto and abandon, sometimes slapping...
...others, besides President Gustavus: Board Chairman Charles Henry Swift, 61, husband of Soprano Claire Dux; Vice President Harold Higgins. Swift, 49, only son of the founder who went to college (University of Chicago); Vice President Alden B. Swift, 48, and Manager Louis Franklin Swift Jr., 38, of the Fort Worth plant, sons of onetime Chairman Louis Franklin Swift who retired as a director last year at the age of 71; ard Nathan B. Swift, 22, son of Alden Swift, now working in the Chicago plant...
...Fair grounds (TIME, Dec. 26). Some $25,000 was raised. The Temple idea was abandoned and the $25,000 set aside for concerts to be given in the Auditorium on Wabash Ave. Last week the Chicago Friends manfully started their World's Fair concert season. Soprano Claire Dux, wife of Packer Charles Henry Swift, soloed without pay the opening night, brought the house cheering to its feet. Pianist Rudolph Ganz played next night. Ruth Page and a special corps de ballet danced to Ravel's Bolero night after that. Scheduled for this week is an all-Gershwin concert...
...American-European beef trade. Son of Founder Gustavus Franklin Swift, President Swift went to no college, began work in the Stock Yards at an early age. He became a cattle-buyer, was made vice president of Swift & Co. in 1909, vice chairman in 1931. He is married to Claire Dux, soprano. Last week the price of hogs was still firm after its recent rise (TIME, July 11), cattle prices were beginning to follow upward...