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...president, Cleo F. Craig, 63, moved out of the operating slot and up to chairman of the board well before the mandatory retirement age of 65 in order to give his successor a two-year break-in period. A.T & T.'s new chief executive: President Frederick R. Kappel (rhymes with apple), 54, a 32-year man at A.T. & T., who has been head of the company's manufacturing subsidiary, Western Electric, since...
...into the cotton business because it seemed as if cotton buyers had to work only a few months of the year, started with Anderson, Clayton at 18 as a stenographer, rose to salesman, branched out into foreign operations, and has been executive vice president since 1945. ¶Frederick Russell Kappel, 51, took over as president of Western Electric Co. Inc., American Telephone & Telegraph's manufacturing and supply company, replacing Stanley Bracken, 63, who stepped up to chairman. Kappel, who worked his way through the University of Minnesota ('24) waiting on tables and playing the trap drums...
...Rosenkavalier. Others find its eery, passionate songs unforgettable. These were more than grateful when Artur Rodzinski announced he would put on a concert version of the opera with the Philharmonic-Symphony he has been guest-conducting all month (TIME, March 8), looked forward to hearing Gertrude Kappel sing again the part she had made a masterpiece four seasons ago. At the last moment, however, Soprano Kappel was taken sick, could not leave Berlin. Soprano Rosa Pauly, hailed as the greatest Strauss heroine on the Continent, came instead, to sing her first role...
...line-up of singers is, on the whole, proud. Among the sopranos there are such experienced performers as Elisabeth Rethberg, Gertrude Kappel, Florence Easton, Lily Pons, Queena Mario, Edith Mason, Editha Fleischer, Rosa Ponselle, who will sing her first Carmen, and Lotte Lehmann who was to open the Philadelphia season in Tosca...
...Nordica from Farmington, Me. sang better than she acted. Olive Fremstad's impersonation was abundant with feeling but often uncontrolled. Johanna Gadski sang so long past her prime that her first excellent performances grew dim in memory. The current outstanding Brünnhildes are Frida Leider and Gertrude Kappel. Both give the rôle its true heroic proportions but their voices are no longer young...