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...concerts to be given in the Auditorium on Wabash Ave. Last week the Chicago Friends manfully started their World's Fair concert season. Soprano Claire Dux, wife of Packer Charles Henry Swift, soloed without pay the opening night, brought the house cheering to its feet. Pianist Rudolph Ganz played next night. Ruth Page and a special corps de ballet danced to Ravel's Bolero night after that. Scheduled for this week is an all-Gershwin concert at which Gershwin will play the piano while his friend William Daly conducts; also a Negro night when the premiere...
Seven Philadelphia harpists played one night, dressed angelwise in flowing georgette robes with snoods around their heads. The Twin City Opera Company gave Rigoletto. University students gave Madame Butterfly. John Erskine, Harold Bauer, Rudolph Ganz, Ernest Hutcheson and Henri Deering played the piano. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett and Soprano Florence Macbeth (from Mankato, Minn.) sang. Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge sponsored chamber music by the Gordon String Quartet. Twenty-five amateur choruses performed and an orchestra came from San Antonio, Tex., the players all in their early teens. Delegates who took a few hours off to buy presents to take home heard...
...George Lytton came forward just once, to hand over the concert's proceeds to Pianist Rudolph Ganz, president of the Bohemian Club which is concentrating this year on helping indigent musicians. Everyone in the audience knew that the modest contra-bassist was the founder of the Chicago Businessmen's Orchestra, that for eleven years he had borne the brunt of its expenses, given it a place to rehearse in his big Hub Store. Boxing, not music, was George Lytton's hobby when he first joined his father in the men's clothing business. He used...
...Agassiz, Mrs. Irving Babbitt, Mrs. P. deM. Barbey, Mrs. Frederick H. Briggs, Mrs. George Sargent Burgess, Mrs. William B. Cabot, Miss Annie B. Chapman, Mrs. H. E. Clifford, Mrs. Julian L. Coolidge, Mrs. Archibald T. Davison, Mrs. L. Day, Mrs. George H. Edgell, Mrs. Henry H. Fay, Mrs. Harry Ganz, Mrs. Anna, L. Gray, Mrs. Holmes Hinkley, Miss Anna E. Holman, Mrs. Edward J. Holmes, Mrs. Thomas B. Hughes, Mrs. Edward W. Hutchins, Mrs. Edward Hale Lane, Mrs. Charles G. Mixter, Mrs. John Montague, Mrs. Arthur W. Moors, Mrs. Andre Morize, Mrs. Theresa R. Osgood, Mrs. Thomas N. Perkins...
...Hungary. An exchange of processes and technical discoveries as well as general co-operation was agreed upon last week by International General Electric (G. E.'s 100 percent-owned subsidiary) and Ganz & Co., biggest machine-building and electrotechnical company in Hungary. In payment for this reciprocation, Ganz & Co. will give G. E. a large block of stock, will invite several G. E. directors to join the Ganz board...