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...Impresario. Ravinia owes its existence to Louis Eckstein, a genial, versatile gentleman whose vocations have been many but whose one and only avocation is Ravinia. President Eckstein ("president" is the title he gives himself for managing and financing an opera company) was born 65 years ago in Milwaukee, attended public school and a business college run by Robert C. Spencer of handwriting renown. Passionately fond of music, he studied the violin, never became particularly expert, never considered making music his profession. His first job was with the Wisconsin Central R. R. for which he became passenger traffic manager while still...
...Ravinia is Louis Eckstein's chief active occupation.* Nineteen years ago he snatched it from a group of directors who wanted to turn it into an ordinary amusement park. Concerts had proved unprofitable but Eckstein was determined. The second year of his administration he engaged the Chicago Symphony for ten weeks. Excerpts from operas were included in the programs, became increasingly popular. Important members of the Metropolitan and Chicago Opera Companies were engaged. They liked to be invited to Ravinia. Last autumn Bori received a cable asking her to sing this spring at London's Covent Garden...
...Miller sounded the warning before the season began. The Zoo is a private venture for which the late Mrs. Mary Emery and Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft once generously provided. Now there are no outstanding self-sacrificing patrons who can compare with Chicago's Insull or Ravinia's Eckstein. Last year there was a deficit of $27,000 which might have been avoided if seats had been filled at every performance. A group of businessmen salvaged the situation then but Manager Miller was unable to find 50 patrons who would organize to ensure the Zoo's future...
...Stamford, Conn., Paul Eckstein, 20 months old, and Edward Eckstein, 3, were playing on the floor. "Bump!" cried Edward Eckstein. They gurgled, bumped their heads together. Five minutes later, Paul Eckstein grew drowsy. Several hours later he died of a fractured skull...
...arranged directly by the Law School team. Seven players are to make the trip, including men from Holy Cross, Dartmouth. Butler University, and three from the University of Kansas, which ran up seven consecutive Missouri Valley Conference victories. B. S. Jeffrey H. J. J. Hill 21, F. M. Eckstein 1GB. H. M. Hauser H, and A. J. Brady H. will be in the starting lineup for the Law School...