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...Didur, also a Metropolitan singer; French Coloratura Lily Pons; French Tenor Georges Thill to replace Tenor Antonin Trantoul whose début last winter was undistinguished; Contralto Faina Petrova of the Moscow Grand Opera; Baritone Claudio Frigerio of Paterson, N. J., who has sung in Italian opera houses; Norwegian Basso Ivar Frithjof Andresen, famed throughout Europe for his Wagner...
Happier would be the life of any President if custom did not require him to act as No. 1 Greeter of the nation. Last week President Hoover received, among many another: 1) Ivar Kreuger, Swedish match tycoon; 2) The Earl of Derby here for the Kentucky race; 3) U. S. Circuit Court Judge John Johnston Parker, Supreme Court rejectee; 4) Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor with a plea against curtailed Navy Yard employment; 5) Professor Enrico Glickenstein, Polish drypoint etcher; 6) Dr. William Oxley Thompson, president emeritus of Ohio State University; 7) Theodore Roosevelt, Governor...
Managing Director Ivar Kreuger...
Kreuger & Toll. Another match monopoly and another bank merger were among the news items of last week in the offices of Matchmaker Ivar Kreuger. The match monopoly, obtained from the free city of Danzig, will last 35 years. To obtain it, Kreuger & Toll paid the city about $195,000. will make small annual payments, will also buy a $1,000,000 6% bond issue at 93. The bank merger was done through the Kreuger & Toll-controlled Deutsche Union Bank of Berlin, consisted of joining the Preussiche Pfandbriefbank (Kreuger & Toll-controlled) and Central Boden Kredit A. G., into the Preussiche Central...
...Elektra with Soprano Gertrude Kappel, Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Verdi's Otello, Rossini's William Tell and Bohemian Jaroslav Weinberger's Schwanda, Der Dudelsackpfeifer (Schwanda, the bagpipe-player), never given in the U. S. New European singers who have signed contracts are famed Basso Ivar Andresen and German Soprano Frieda Leider, now with the Chicago Civic Opera and presumably not to join the Metropolitan until 1931. A possibility, too, is Soprano Eleanor Steele, 20, of Mansfield, Ohio...