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...Claire Dux, Chicago operatic soprano. .Mus.D...
...arrived punctually, never once applauded at the wrong time, saved its coughs for intermissions. After the con cert there gathered backstage Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay of the Phil harmonic Board of Directors, Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Packer Charles Henry Swift and his wife Soprano Claire Dux, Pianist Jose Iturbi, Violinist Joseph Szigeti. Hovering benignly about was tall, handsome Bruno Zirato, onetime personal representative of Enrico Caruso, engaged this year to fill the same sort of position for Toscanini...
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...
Married. Charles H. Swift, potent packer, to Claire Dux, famed Swiss soprano, opera star; in the University of Chicago Chapel...