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Married since 1935 to the art supervisor of the Chicago Board of Education, Wagener sees his wife only in the summer, when she visits him in Estes Park. He has a fine contempt for genealogical hoopla. Few years ago Sister Hilda clambered up the family tree, was gratified to discover no Jewish blood, annoyed to find two illegitimate greatgrandparents. Not at all annoyed was Brother Siegfried. "They're authentic bastards," he points out, "which is more than you can say for the Nazis...
...There Hilda Emery Davis, the band leader's wife, composes, collects books and manuscripts, notably Byroniana. An able pianist, she played with the Davis orchestra in the early Bar Harbor days, says she hated him, married him after three years of it. For the Du Pont-Roosevelt wedding, at which Mr. Davis played, Mrs. D. wrote a piece called You Are the Reason for My Love Song. A sister-in-law of Conductor Pierre Monteux, she had a serious composition, The Last Knight, performed by the NBC Symphony, with M. Monteux conducting...
they should portray the romance and adventure of flying instead of ... comfort and speed. So he gave my theory a test and it proved out-at least we are . . . married and the advertising is being changed." Marriage Revealed. Hilda Jane Lehman, 19, adopted daughter of New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman; and Boris de Vadetsky, 27, onetime WPA actor, World War II ambulance driver; after eloping to Elkton, Md., Dec. 1. The Governor, declared his secretary, knew his son-in-law "only slightly." Died. C. Harold Wills, 62, automotive pioneer and founder of the old Wills...
...notable achievement of the Met's Manager Edward Johnson has been to hire lookers as well as singers. No other opera house of comparable artistic standards boasts such svelte and glamorous ladies as Czech Soprano Jarmila Novotna, Brazilian Soprano Bidu Sayao, U. S. Sopranos Helen Jepson, Grace Moore, Hilda Burke, Rose Bampton and Eleanor Steber (a West Virginia debutante of this month), U. S. Contraltos Risë Stevens and Gladys Swarthout...
...Artists Service a virtual monopoly on U. S. concert bookings, tried to sell the people of Crawfordsville a concert course from which their own orchestra was omitted. Crawfordsville would not hear of it. So, in order to sell the town such artists as Tenor Charles Hackett and Soprano Hilda Burke, Columbia Concerts Corp. became sponsor of the Symphony's season...