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...house of Curtis began to do something which other publishers had been hoping and predicting for months that Curtis would do -plow in some of the profits of former years to bring greenness back to the drab winter fields of 1930-31. With the approval of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis and Editor George Horace Lorimer, Mr. Healy accepted the services of President Arthur H. Kudner of Erwin, Wasey & Co., the man and agency who won a 1930 Bok Award for their post-crash slogan: "All right, Mister, now that the headache's over...
...thin, croaking voice. The smart audience was also hypnotized into perfect behavior. It arrived punctually, never once applauded at the wrong time, saved its coughs for intermissions. After the con cert there gathered backstage Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay of the Phil harmonic Board of Directors, Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Packer Charles Henry Swift and his wife Soprano Claire Dux, Pianist Jose Iturbi, Violinist Joseph Szigeti. Hovering benignly about was tall, handsome Bruno Zirato, onetime personal representative of Enrico Caruso, engaged this year to fill the same sort of position for Toscanini...
...Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis was given a testimonial dinner by Philadelphians. Senator George Wharton Pepper called him "the ideal American.'' Said Publisher Curtis: "I never expected to have anything of this sort happen...
...Philadelphia Grand Opera Company last year became affiliated with the Curtis Institute of Music, secured the backing of a $12,500,000 endowment fund and the interest of Mary Louise Curtis Bok, wife of the late editor Edward William Bok of Ladies' Home Journal, daughter of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. Great pet of Mrs. Bok is the Curtis Institute given in memory of her mother. Its opera students needed an outlet for their new-trained talents. Philadelphia needed one really first-rate resident opera company. In collaboration with Mrs. Leidy, still active president, Mrs. William C. Hammer, artistic...
...tenors: Belgian Octave Dua already known in Chicago; Oscar Colcaire, naive of Lexington, Ky., onetime first violinist in the Cincinnati symphony; Paul Althouse, of Reading, Pa., for ten years with the Metropolitan; Frenchman Mario Laurence. New baritones: Jean Vieuille from the Paris Opera Comique, Rudolph Bockelmann from Hamburg, Hans Hermann Nissen from Munich, Eduard Habich from Berlin, Salvatore Baccaloni from Milan, John Charles Thomas. A new stage director, Dr. Otto Erhardt, has come from the Dresden State opera. Soprano Edith Mason, divorced wife of musical Director Giorgio Polacco, will not return...