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Ernestine Schumann-Heink, soprano, gave her estate at Grossmont, Calif., valued at $230,000, to the disabled American Veterans of the World War. They will use it as a rest home. Said she at a dinner of disabled veterans in Minneapolis: "I make this gift . . . because you called me 'Mother'. . . . Six years ago in Minneapolis you disabled men drank a silent toast to the two sons I lost in the War-one on the American side and the other on the German. May you all go to California and rest in the most glorious spot I know...
Alma Gluck Ernestine Schumann-Heink...
...Among these are Hofmann, Heifetz and Kreisler, Galli-Curci and Schumann-Heink, McCormack and Chaliapin...
George Engles, manager of Schumann-Heink, Taliey, Paderewski, Heifetz, estimated that the U. S. spends 20 million dollars for music each year. His budget allots six millions to the 13 major symphony orchestras, three and a half millions to the Metropolitan and Chicago Opera Companies, the rest to individual artists, summer concert orchestras, a few minor opera companies. Grade A box-office attractions, according to Manager Engles, are Pianists Paderewski, Hofmann, Rachmaninoff; Violinists Kreisler, Heifetz, Elman, Yehudi Menuhin; Singers Schumann-Heink, Garden, Farrar, Jeritza, Galli-Curci, Taliey, Ponselle, McCormack, Chaliapin, Gigli, Schipa. Their gross receipts amount to some three millions...
Married. Mrs. Marie Hilgartner, daughter of Madame Schumann-Heink; to Dr. Charles M. Fox, of San Diego, Calif.; in San Francisco...