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Twenty-five years ago Louis Eckstein, rich Chicago merchant and real estate operator, began sponsoring summer orchestra concerts at Ravinia Park, 37 acres of woods he owned on suburban Chicago's North Shore. Later, not instruments but voices made Ravinia famed. The Ravinia Opera which Louis Eckstein produced, signing up the best artists, casting them, supervising every production detail, cost him some $1,500,000 before Depression halted it four years ago (TIME, April 11, 1932). Patron Eckstein, who kept hoping to revive Ravinia, died last winter. Last week there was orchestra music once more in the open-sided...
Died. Louis Eckstein, 70, capitalist, onetime magazine publisher (Red Book, Blue Book, Green Book), founder and president of Chicago's Ravinia Opera Company; of bronchial pneumonia; in Chicago. Obliged by heavy losses to discontinue Ravinia's summer opera in 1931, Mr. Eckstein estimated he had spent $1,000,000 in its support...
Died. Henry Gottlieb Eckstein, 75, partner in the firm making Cracker Jack (candied popcorn), coiner of their slogan, "The More You Eat the More You Want"; in Ontario, Calif...
...World's Fair without music would be a disgrace to so musically proud a city as Chicago. But with Samuel Insull's Civic Opera collapsed, Louis Eckstein unable to get enough others to help him carry on opera at woodsy Ravinia, and the Chicago Symphony in trouble with the Musicians' Union, that was what threatened. The Chicago Friends of Music organized ambitiously last winter to raise $100,000 for an outdoor Temple of Music to be built near the Fair grounds (TIME, Dec. 26). Some $25,000 was raised. The Temple idea was abandoned...
KETTLE - Gustav Eckstein - Harper...