Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thursday the Advisory Committee will select four plays for its spring schedule from those submitted by the HDC, the Gilbert and Sullivan Players, the Harvard Opera Guild, and other groups. Chapman was unable to predict the chances of the HDC suggestions...
...Portland Oregonian, which is Newhouse-owned, has been struck by the American Newspaper Guild and printing-trades unions, along with the rival evening Oregon Journal, since Nov. 10, 1959. Both have lost heavily on circulation but are still appearing. Last week Donald R. Newhouse, 41, Samuel Newhouse's cousin and business manager of the morning Oregonian, was wounded in the thigh by an unidentified assailant who fired a shotgun through a basement window...
Last week the Met gratefully honored the guild and Mrs. Belmont. Onstage, Barry Morell, Dorothy Kirsten, Leonie Rysanek, Zinka Milanov sang arias from L'Africaine, Louise, Tannhäuser, Bohème, supported by the Met orchestra, chorus and ballet, while Mrs. Belmont, 80, sat in the center box, as firmly as ever part of the Met scene. During intermission. General Manager Rudolf Bing presented to Mrs. Belmont a silver tray with the engraved signatures of the board members and guild staff...
Lessons from Lionel. In the year of its founding, the guild had 1,239 members. Today it has a membership of 55,000-predominantly female-in all the states and 51 foreign countries. Many a present-day Opera Guilder never steps inside the Met, but the membership is bound together by its ritualistic devotion to the Met's Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts and by the guild magazine, Opera News, which combines first-rate scholarship with the kind of prompter's box chitchat that opera fans feed on. With dues at $6 and up, the guild has raised...
...Belmont, the guild's founder, began her career on the other side of the footlights. Born Eleanor Robson, the daughter of an English stock-company actress, she followed her mother to the U.S., got a job in stock in San Francisco, soon found herself touring with Lionel Barrymore, who undertook to educate her by reading aloud from Kipling's Jungle Books. Her first success, the title role in Israel Zangwill's Merely Mary Ann, so moved critics during the play's three-year run that they "always seemed to write about new-mown hay when they...