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...artists. The talent that Impresario Longone got for the money bears evidence to the passing of fantastic fees. Soprano Maria Jeritza, who opened many a Metropolitan season, was to sing the first night in Tosca. Mario Chamlee, John Charles Thomas and Grace Moore were listed for later on. Edith Mason and Rosa Raisa, two of Insull's singers, were back New Year's Eve Marion Talley will sing in Rigoletto, the opera in which she made her sensational Metropolitan debut seven years ago (TIME, March 1, 1926) For four years Miss Talley has been in re tirement, ostensibly...
...will be sold at auction in Jersey City. In Stockholm Torsten Kreuger was fined 1,500.000 kroner (about $390,000) and sentenced to one year's hard labor for his part in his brother's crockery. Administrators of the estate of Chicago's late Edith Rockefeller McCormick announced that the furnishings of her Romanesque Lake Shore Drive town house will be auctioned next month...
...Meteor. I have a vivid memory of the grace and distinction of the lady who broke the bottle over the bow of the racing yacht in Nixon's boatyard on Staten Island. I feel sure that my memory is not at fault because I have always looked upon Edith Carow Roosevelt as the most gracious and distinguished woman who has presided over the White House in Washington during my 72 years. During the winter of Prince Henry's visit to the U. S. I lived at the Metropolitan Club and I think I missed no important phase...
...chorus of quick-legged, milk-chocolate girls swing and stomp, shove and pull. A long succession of skits plays with the facts of life with the unsophistication of a barnyard. The king of tap-dancers, stocky little Bill Robinson, slaps his soles against the floor with classic virtuosity. Plump Edith Wilson, scrawny Kathryn Perry sing ably, gaily. The stage crawls with conventional Negro comedians, making fun of Negroes for white entertainment. Eddie Hunter explains to two friends the Eugene O'Neill plot of what he calls the Emperor Bones. It leads into an Emperor Jones jungle bacchanal, feathered, furred...
...homely husband detested it, enjoys an elegant moment of respite in her pansy velvet gown, serene in the knowledge that her exquisite little fan and parasol would be the envy of many a prairie lady back home in Illinois. Lucretia Garfield stands resolutely erect, prepared for tragedy. Edith Carow Roosevelt placidly reads her book. Only the faintest notes of discord jar the harmony among the ghostly ladies in the Smithsonian gallery. Pale Ellen Axson Wilson has joined Mmes Taft and Roosevelt in their glass case, while her successor, Edith Boiling Gait Wilson stands with Florence Kling Harding and Grace Goodhue...