Word: gluck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...collected a $118,029.69 royalty check from RCA-Victor for six months' sales of his phonograph records. It was one of the biggest single royalty checks RCA-Victor has ever issued. It put him in a class with some of Victor's all-time moneymakers: Caruso, Alma Gluck and Marian Anderson. Added to his Hollywood salary of about $100,000 a picture, and an annual income of $200,000 from concerts, it established Pianist Iturbi in the financial big league in music...
From a stageplay by Gluck...
...year. Mozart's Don Giovanni and Magic Flute, Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, Otello and Rigoletto, Smetana's Bartered Bride, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, Puccini's Girl of the Golden West, Hindemith's Cardillac and Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. There will be no Wagner this winter...
Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Manhattan's big-mouthed Mayor, got a glimpse of an all-but-spitting-image grandnephew, Richard Denes, when Correspondent Kathryn Cravens returned from Germany with a photograph (see cut). She found Richard and the Mayor's sister, Gemma LaGuardia Gluck, in Berlin...
...went to Thacher School in California, twice won the Croix de guerre in World War I. Back in the U.S. he went to Yale, where he published poems in the Lit. He is married to Novelist Marcia Davenport (The Valley of Decision), daughter of the late soprano Alma Gluck...