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With rows of red figures marching across the balance sheet, with Clarence Hungerford Mackay so hard-fixed that he can no longer afford to turn them back with the quiet signing of a check, the directors of the proud New York Philharmonic-Symphony last week sent out an SOS for $500,000. Seventy of New York's richest music patrons first heard the help cry in the Park Avenue home of Harry Harkness Flagler. Already, Mr. Flagler informed them, there is a deficit of $150,000. The season's box-office receipts amount to $60,000 less than...
...Grace Mackay Smith . . . worked in a Los Angeles realtor's office so that Tibbett could go East to study." The fact is that Tibbett's venture East was made possible by the generosity of a Los Angeles businessman who loaned him a sizable sum of money for the purpose...
...great concern, it ran up a deficit of $30,000. The Symphony hopes to square itself by having Arturo Toscanini for its guest conductor in the spring. Toscanini has always wanted to go to California but the New York Philharmonic, none too happy itself since Clarence Mackay's fortune shrank, was unwilling to spare its one big drawing card during the winter season...
...Tibbett had twin sons by his first wife, Grace Mackay Smith, who worked in a Los Angeles realtor's office so that Tibbett could go East to study. When rich & famed, Tibbett got a divorce. His present wife, Jennie, had three sons by her first husband, John Clark Burgard, San Francisco broker and sportsman...
...combined it with the Cuban system a few years later. In 1920, after a deal with A. T. & T. had enabled them to lay a cable from Cuba to Key West, they formed I. T. & T. When they leaped into world prominence in 1928 by getting control of the Mackay-Postal telegraph system, they had already spun their web over most of South America, rehabilitated the telephones of Paris and Shanghai, helped to precipitate the Spanish revolution by giving Spaniards good telephones...