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...have 5,000 clubs. 500,000 individual members, dozens of earnest aims. It conducts study courses, encourages U. S. composers by offering prizes which have ranged from $100 to$10,000. It has spent over $300,000 helping young U. S. artists to launch their careers-among them Soprano Hilda Burke and Contralto Kathryn Meisle who got into the Chicago Opera. Basso Arthur Anderson who got into the Metropolitan.∙ And the ladies of the Federation make good listeners for ambitious young artists who would otherwise have a hard time finding any listeners...
...owned the mansion in Great Neck where now lives Cinemagnate Nicholas Schenck. He likes bicycles, collects books of wit. He thinks his joke collection is the world's largest. He plays several musical instruments. He is married, has a son, Frank Keenan. When he first saw his wife (Hilda Keenan) he exclaimed, "She is the cutest thing in girls I ever...
...Hilda Aberg, pretty, red-headed Manhattan housekeeper for the late rascally Ivar Kreuger, was sued for $250,000 by the wife of a Capt. Hugo Sundstedt, airman, for alienating his affections "by promises of money and otherwise." Kreuger creditors pricked their ears. Mrs. Aberg indignantly denied all, said she had worked for Kreuger at $125 per month, received no gift or bequests from...
...ring. Just before His Excellency Governor General James McNeill entered his box, Frank Aiken, Minister of Defense in President de Valera's Republican cabinet, issued orders to the army band not to play. Governor McNeill teetered nervously on the threshold, but an imported British ensemble known as St. Hilda's Band saved the day. Shouldering their tubas, dragging the bass drum, they dashed across the field, blared "The Soldier's Song" with a flourish...
...Author Morgan was trained as an officer in the Royal Navy,.served in the Atlantic and China fleets. After the War he studied at Oxford, was graduated with honors in modern history in 1921. Since 1926 he has been the London Times's dramatic critic. Married to Authoress Hilda Vaughan he dedicates The Fountain to her. Other books: My Name is Legion, Portrait in a Mirror...