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LIVES - Gustav Eckstein - Harper...
...little brothers &; sisters the birds, St. Francis of Assisi used to preach. Dr. Eckstein, more catholic, includes in his audience, besides parrots, canaries, a pigeon and a macaw, cats, rats, three turtles, a Portuguese gardener and a million cockroaches. More modern than the Saint, the Doctor does no preaching, though he talks seriously to mischief-makers now & then...
Chicago learned last week that there will be no opera this summer at Ravinia Park, rustic pleasure ground up the North Shore. Ravinia's genial patron, Louis Eckstein, is accustomed to bearing the greater part of each season's deficit; last year he and his wife made up $187,884 of the $279,829 loss. This year it has been possible to raise' only one-sixth of what is likely to be needed. But Patron Eckstein is cheerful. Said he: "One inactive season will not destroy Ravinia's prestige at home or abroad. . . . I believe that...
...Ronald Lindsay, the British Ambassador, took Winston Churchill to the White House for a friendly chat. Enormous Kate Smith, radio singer, was escorted there by Brigadier General Frank Thomas Hines, to get presidential thanks for her entertainment of disabled soldiers. German Ambassador von Prittwitz introduced Dr. Oscar Eckstein of Berlin, adviser to the German Potash Syndicate. Actor Fred Stone, whose mother died two days before, dropped around with his daughter Paula for a brief how-do-you-do. Ambassador Edge, New Jersey Wet, home on leave from Paris, after a conference with President Hoover announced that he was returning immediately...
...little of the Metropolitan's workings. Banker Kahn owns from 70 to 80% of the producing company's stock but, contrary to the impression he sometimes gives, he has never "backed" it in the sense that Mr. & Mrs. Harold Fowler McCormick once backed Chicago's Opera or that Louis Eckstein now personally backs Ravinia. For more than 20 years Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza has run New York's opera and managed to enhance its prestige without incurring a deficit. He presents each season several new operas and the world's highest priced singers. He even built up a reserve fund...