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...Eckstein's Bill...
...Louis Eckstein, retired publisher of Red Book and Blue Book, patron of rustic summer opera at Ravinia Park, 111., announced Ravinia's 1930 deficit: $241,000, largest in 19 years. Patron Eckstein's share: $139,107.20, other patrons making up the balance. Cost what it may, so long as he lives, Mr. Eckstein said, there will be opera at Ravinia...
Twenty miles north of Chicago, at Ravinia, another music-loving tycoon faced another deficit: Louis Eckstein, whose summer opera avocation is almost vocation. Like Mr. Insull, Mr. Eckstein did not gloom. The summer's $200,000 loss will be made up somehow. Last year he and Mrs. Eckstein went into their own pockets for $97,000 of a $217,000 deficit. Said he last week: "I merely consider it my contribution to summer culture...
...President Eckstein has never been able to make Ravinia pay. He owns the land and the buildings, charges no rent. He gives his full time, engages the artists, makes out the programs, attends every performance. Last year he and Mrs. Eckstein made up $97,000 of a $217,000 deficit. His comment : "Art pays dividends in beauty. It cannot be expected to pay in material things...
...years ago, for his interest in opera, Mr. Eckstein was made a Chevalier of the Order of the Crown of Italy...