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...Ganna Walska (Mrs. Harold Fowler McCormick): "Belgrade, 950 miles distant from Paris, is the capital of Jugoslavia. There I, earnest singer, appeared in the title role of Tosca. I stabbed the Baron Scarpia of the piece so vigorously that I broke my stage property knife. I got five curtain calls, and was pleased with this tribute to me, after my unkind treatment in the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925) and my recent failure to secure a stage in Paris, even after buying, as I thought, an opera house for myself...
Garmented in the magnificent arrangement of silk and tortoise-shell she had bought to wear in her Manhattan debut as Madame Butterfly with the San Carlo Opera Company, Ganna Walska, soprano wife of Millionaire Harold F. McCormick, knelt in tears at a dress rehearsal while Tenor Franko Tafuro sang "Beautiful Creature...
...should I look at you?" shrilled Ganna, her voice curdling the syrup of the aria. "Can't you hear me sobbing...
...Hughes 1,554 Mayor Hylan 0 Al Jolson 33,744 Otto H. Kahn 391,776 Rudyard Kipling 4,998 Sebastian S. Kresge (5 & lOc Stores) 188,608 William B. Leeds 57,445 Florence Pullman Lowden 14,736 A. Lawrence Lowell (Harvard).... 36,566 Cyrus H. McCormick 269,036 Ganna Walska McCormick 12,632 Harold F. McCormick 168,276 John J. McGraw 2,544 Clarence H. Mackey 320,490 Edward B. McLean 255,729 Dwight W. Morrow 290,344 Pola Negri 15,108 Meredith Nicholson 1,586 Ignace Jan Paderewsky 16,161 Ann Pennington 1,641 Senator Lawrence Phipps...
...still apparently on the crescendo. He came from the family of "Harvester" McCormicks. The three members of the family in the generation which first attained fame were Cyrus, William and Leander. Cyrus was father of Cyrus II as well as Harold F. (who married Edith Rockefeller and, later, Ganna Walska and is the father of Harold II and Mathilde Oser). William had a son Robert S. who was the father of the Senator and of Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick. Leander was the father of L. Hamilton McCormick, of Robert H. and Anita and grandfather of Alister whose one time bride...