Word: ganna
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Ganna Walska McCormick: "In Chicago, Miss Elizabeth McCormick, second cousin of my husband, Harold F. McCormick, gave a dinner for the McCormick family. The newspapers reported that Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick and I 'confronted each other in seats of honor.' Mrs. Rockefeller McCormick was escorted by Edward Krenn, Viennese architect. They later went to the Batik Ball...
...heights of opera. Campanini understood Americans as no American understands them, and with subtle persuasions he lined up Chicago capital that never failed him. Chief among his backers was Harold McCormick of the Harvester Trust, then the husband of John D. Rockefeller's daughter and now of Mme. Ganna Walska. The Chicagoans, not content with conflict at a distance, invaded enemy territory. They gave New York seasons, competing with the home organization for metropolitan patronage...
...American soprano, Luella Melius, sailed for Europe for a year of concerting there. She will appear in Paris as Gilda in a guest performance of Rigoletto. Mme. Ganna Walska essayed the same role in Paris last year, with disastrous results. It will be recalled that there was some disturbance and even a mention of legal proceedings arising over the fact that Jules Daiber of New York, who had been Mme. Melius' manager, became the manager of Mme. Walska. Mme. Melius maintained that she had a contract with Mr. Daiber which bound him to render her exclusive managerial service...
...conclusion is inevitable: Ganna Walska is beautiful; she exerts a powerful fascination; she has wealth. What more can she want? She wants, with all the passion of a strong, ambitious nature, to sing in opera. And she has no voice...
...Ganna Walska. She has wealth, beauty, power; but still is human in her winters and summers of discontent...