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Elsewhere in these columns is a provoking editorial note praising the generosity of a patron of art and suggesting that it would not be amiss if the Chicago community were to aid Mr. Louis Eckstein in his material support of the Ravinia Park summer opera. Bostonians have not to go abroad to find a citizen equally praiseworthy for his beneficence in a similar work. They have only to refer to Major Higginson...
Ravinia is peculiarly the hobby of one man, Louis Eckstein. It was he who saved it a few years ago from becoming just another amusement park. He engages the singers, selects the repertoire, and, quite inevitably, pays most of the bills. To be sure, there is a guaranty fund subscribed to by many North Shore residents, but it is wholly insufficient to meet the annual losses. Last year Mr. Eckstein paid $139,000 out of his own pocket. This summer's season will cost him nearly $188,000. One can only agree with him when he says: "It is certain...
...Star, who felt unable to carry the annual deficit alone. But after her death last February (TIME. Feb. 9) it was found that the Taft estate left provision for paying the Zoo deficit which now includes that of the Opera (formerly paid separately). Ravinia Park, Chicago's Louis Eckstein is perhaps the only melophile virtually to own an opera since mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria who in the middle of the last century sat many a time alone while his troupe sang for him in a great empty theatre. As president and chief guarantor of Ravinia Opera...
...ideal. Of himself he reports: "Born, practiced dentistry, taught physiology, learned not much, read two or three men, learned a little, came to know two or three women, learned a good deal, made friends with two rats, learned prodigiously, wrote about the rats, continued to write." Actually Dr. Gustav Eckstein, 40, has been a dental surgeon for 20 years, a medical doctor for seven, is salaried instructor of physiology at the University of Cincinnati. He lives across the Ohio River, at Fort Thomas, Ky. For most of his source material he went to Noguchi's old Japanese haunts...
...NOGUCHI-Gustav Eckstein Harpers...