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...Biltmore in Manhattan. It started before noon, lasted until 5 p. m. There was plenty of operating department oath-swearing and table-pounding. By this time the impetuous Westerners ? stout Lewis Warrington Baldwin of Missouri Pacific, white-headed Lawrence Aloysius Downs of Illinois Central, bald James Edward Gorman of Rock Island?were for dropping the idea of negotiation, filing their notices at once and fighting the matter out with Labor. But the spirit of conciliation prevailed, thanks principally to a 70-year-old gentleman whose jolly round head is adorned with a sugarloaf hat and gold-rimmed spectacles?President...
...Hammer, 61, founder, secretary & treasurer of the Philadelphia Grand Opera Association; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. First founded to gain local support for the San Carlo Opera Company, the Philadelphia Opera assumed independence under the able guidance of Founder Hammer and his wife, Mrs. Kathryn Cecil O'Gorman Hammer, produced, notably, Wozzeck (TIME, March...
Five years ago Philadelphia's Grand Opera Company was only a notion entertained by three people: Mrs. Joseph Leidy, socialite wife of a Philadelphia doctor, William Carl Hammer, an importer, and his wife, Kathryn O'Gorman Hammer, daughter of a bandmaster and herself an able slide-trombonist. The Hammers interested Mrs. Leidy in a local opera venture; Mrs. Leidy interested her friends who bought boxes. The Hammers became managers, announced six performances for the first season. Mr. Hammer attended to the box-office while Mrs. Hammer persuaded artists to sing on a co-operative basis, borrowed sets...
Kathryn O'Gorman Hammer is still the zealous, domineering director of Philadelphia's Grand Opera Company (the world's only woman opera-director since Anita Colombo was eased out of her position at La Scala) but in five years her position has radically changed. No longer does she haggle over prices or stitch costumes. She wears orchids, travels abroad to engage talent. Prosperity came in 1929 when Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok, daughter of Publisher Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis, decided to support the company, to use it partly as an outlet for opera talent in the Curtis...
...summary: ANDOVER SECONDS WINTHROP Simmons, l.e. r.e., Daley, Swarts Fry, Ley, l.t. r.t., Knowles Dean, l.g. r.g., Gorman, Dickson Dwyer, Johnson, c. c., McCabe Sears, r.g. l.g., Futcher Peterson, r.t. l.t., Dunton Sophian, r.e. l.e., Taylor Bates, q.b. q.b., Wightman, Henderson Jonston, Harper, l.h.b. r.h.b., Clapp Off, r.h.b. l.h.b., Downes Miller, f.b. f.b., Ripley...