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...Chicago a pleasant Aida made her debut at Civic Opera, She was Soprano Hilda Burke, 24, of Baltimore, who had wanted to be a trained nurse but succumbed to parental objection, concentrated on singing as a substitute...
...well-established in Europe; Margarita Salvi, young, slender and Spanish; Eva Turner, English and ebullient; Alice Mock, a Californian with European experience, to make her debut as Micaela in the opening Carmen; and Antoinetta Consoli of Lawrence, Mass.. who will sing Frasquita; Marion Claire, 24-year-old Chicagoan; Hilda Burke, Baltimorean; Patricia O'Connell, Alabaman and daughter of a New York Times staff writer. Contraltos: Ada Paggi, Italian, and Coe Glade, 22-year-old Chicagoan. both onetime members of the San Carlo Company; Maria Olszewska. Tenors: Giuseppe Cavadore, Italian; and Ulysses Lappas, Greek and admired by Mary Garden, back...
...consists largely of crossing the slang out of comic strips and reading them in a British accent. But comic strips can be and are often funny; the best comedy in The High Road is out of "Bringing Up Father." Lord Trench (Frederick Kerr) is Dinty Moore to his wife (Hilda Spong) who refers to him as "you horrible old man;" between the two there is an alternating current of abuse. Edna Best who plays Elsie Hilary is superior to Ina Claire in that she can deliver an epigram without tying her lips into a cupid's-bow knot...
Sued for Divorce. Sir Max Julius Bonn, 51, socially smart British banker (Bonn & Co.); and Lady Hilda Bonn, 51. Socially smart corespondents were named in cross petitions...
...ugliness through the ages. Among other things, it contained "many a bad watercolour by ladies of the place, living and dead; a few portraits in the drawing-room, one of which, almost black, was reputed to be a Gainsborough." Rackham had come into the possession of Mrs. Hilda Maple, a widow with a business head. She filled it with bogus antiques, planned to sell it at a huge profit. But her nephew, John Maple, who considered himself the rightful heir of Rackham, resolved to buy it at a humble figure. One weekend, Hilda invited to Rackham, with the idea...