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...merit qualification was what brought the Guild to Washington. Also no mention had been made of solo instrumentalists and dancers. The Guild wanted to put all foreign artists through the Department of Labor's strainer. "You have taken care of those in the bush leagues," complained Tenor Charles Hackett, no bush leaguer, "but not those in the major leagues." Furthermore, to protect its members, the Guild wanted some sort of provisional reciprocal agreement between the U. S. and foreign countries put into effect instanter while Congress ponders a permanent measure...
...perfect company town" and to labor agitators as the "Siberia of America." And it was under Mr. Girdler that J. & L.'s profits reached $20,800,000 in 1929. During Depression the company accumulated nearly $18,000,000 worth of deficits. Even under President Samuel E. Hackett, a master salesman, J. & L. lost a little money last year on total sales of $62,000,000. With total assets of $184,900,000 and 20,000 employes, J. & L. is geared, like all steel companies, for boomtime production. And with its new strip-sheet mill and the steel team...
...given more leading roles than she had last season. Outstanding contraltos are Karin Branzell, Doris Doe, Gladys Swarthout, Cyrena Van Gordon, Rose Bampton, Kathryn Meisle and Marion Telva, who has been badly missed since she left the Metropolitan in 1931. Outstanding tenors: Lauritz Melchior, Paul Althouse, Giovanni Martinelli. Charles Hackett. Nino Martini. The baritones: Lawrence Tibbett, John Charles Thomas, Friedrich Schorr, Richard Bonelli. The bassos: Ezio Pinza, Ludwig Hofmann, Emanuel List, Leon Rothier...
Playwright O'Neill, admittedly, was skylarking, insofar as it comports with the dignity of U. S. Playwright No. 1 to skylark, when he got period laughs out of his sentimental little comedy. Screenwriters Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich have gone further, using the sound frame of O'Neill's drama as the basis for a period pastiche. It is all there, for people who can think back 30 years: the band concert on the common; the tandem bicycles, shirtwaist watches, lemonade and porch swings; the crested brewery horses, prancing to the political club picnic on the Fourth...
Last week President Karleton Hackett of the Chicago City Opera Company announced a five-week season to begin in November in the Civic Opera House. Top price: $3. President Hackett said negotiations had been opened with Bori, Lehmann, Pons, Maria Jeritza, Claudia Muzio, Rosa Raisa, Tito Schipa, Ezio Pinza, John Charles Thomas. The repertory will include the U. S. première of Respighi's La Fiamma, Puccini's La Rondine, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier...