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...Maestro Giorgio Polacco the Chicago Civic Opera had from 1920 until last year an able musical director. But many a Chicagoan believed that the Company's activities-the long-delayed premiere of Hamilton Forrest's Camille, for example-were hampered by Maestro Polacco's domestic difficulties with his wife. Edith Mason, an excellent soprano. Married twice before, Soprano Mason became his wife in 1919, divorced him in 1928 charging cruelty. "This," he said, "is certainly a dreadful blow to me." Then she married Dr. Maurice A. Bernstein. Chicago surgeon. Last October it was made known she would...
Camille was scheduled for performance last season but postponed because of insufficient time for preparation, some say because the domestic difficulties of Music Director Giorgio Polacco and Soprano Edith Mason last year slowed up the activities of the company. Neither returned this year...
Pierre Roy has always been a painter, has given many a nourishing meal to the founders of Cubism. Though Derain, Picasso, Giorgio (horses) de Chirico are still his good friends, he has been influenced by none of them. Slowly, painstakingly, he has developed his own style. He takes about six months to finish a picture. The 42 canvases exhibited last week represent most of his life's work-28 of them already belong to various collectors...
...Jean Vieuille from the Paris Opera Comique, Rudolph Bockelmann from Hamburg, Hans Hermann Nissen from Munich, Eduard Habich from Berlin, Salvatore Baccaloni from Milan, John Charles Thomas. A new stage director, Dr. Otto Erhardt, has come from the Dresden State opera. Soprano Edith Mason, divorced wife of musical Director Giorgio Polacco, will not return...
...Pietro Ricci, San Francisco music teacher, father of six, recognized his Ruggiero's unusual talent, took him to Louis Persinger who trained Prodigy Yehudi Menuhin. Teacher Persinger enthused, put small Ruggiero under the care of Violinist Mary Elizabeth Lackey for grooming. Later to her went Giorgio. Less and less did the Riccis see their sons. On Nov. 15, 1928, Ruggiero's San Francisco debut was hailed by critics. Next day Father Pietro signed a legal paper thinking (he says) it was a will providing for his boys should he die. Instead the papers made Miss Lackey guardian for Ruggiero...