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...Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis's jewels have been his sons-in-law. With the late Edward William Bok he built his great magazine publishing business (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, et al.). And for the last 17 years his dapper, alert step-son-in-law, John Charles Martin, has busied himself in the other Curtis publishing enterprise, that of gaining control of the Philadelphia newspaper field. Announced, last week, was the seventh addition to Curtis-Martin Newspapers Inc.?The Philadelphia Inquirer...
...Rondo Veneziano to be played by Conductor Arturo Toscanini after a 13-weeks' absence from the Philharmonic-Symphony. Composer Pizzetti had been widely heralded, his coming sponsored by Conductor and Signora Toscanini, by Italian Ambassador Nobile Giacomo de Martino, Metropolitan Opera Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Mrs. Otto Hermann Kahn, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. His career had been extensively reviewed: Pizzetti is Parma-born, a musical critic, director of the Milan Conservatory, friend of Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio with whom he has collaborated on three operas.* His opinions had been aired: Pizzetti has no fears...
...last week the highest Bok Award, the big gold medal "For Distinguished Contemporary Service to Advertising," went to the father-in-law who should have had it years ago, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, of the Saturday Evening Post, et al, "because of his strict adherence ... to high standards of reliability in advertising...
...depend for success on the chance that he could kindle in his discerners some intuitive appreciation of what to them would be new, wholly foreign beauties. Socially he was well sponsored, by the China Institute in America, more particularly by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Charles R. Crane, John Dewey, Otto Hermann Kahn. Esthetically he represented a tradition which countless Emperors had applauded. But he had his worries...
Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, whose magazines last year made $21,534,265, gave $300,000 to Drexel Institute (Philadelphia) for a ten-story women's dormitory. A trustee of the institution, he has given it $1,400,000 in the last six years...