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Madame Heink is 67; Madame Melba, 62; both old for singers...
...chain store circles. More than a year ago his 800 tobacco temples entered into partnership with the 3,000 United Cigar Stores.* Shortly after that he bought Huylers, Inc. (48 tea, ice cream and candy saloons). He has interests in V. Vivaudou, Inc., Park & Tilford, Dunhill International, Inc., Melba Manufacturing Co., American Druggists Syndicate, the Alfred H. Smith Co. As amazing sideshows, he paid $75,000,000 for the French tobacco monopoly two years ago, and bought the Overholt distillery (2,000,000 gallons of whiskey) for $15,000,000. Also he is the man who profited...
...Washington. There followed study in New York, with Farrar the Student a frequent standee at the "Met," learning the ways of Melba, Calvé, Lilli Lehmann, Jean de Reszké, learning to her greater advantage what pleased the purse-poor folk around her who scarcely missed a performance. She studied a year in Washington, was taken one afternoon to call on Mrs. McKinley. News came: DEWEY VICTORIOUS AT MANILA?and Farrar, still the Student, sat down at the piano, played and sang the "Star Spangled Banner...
...Engineering Society Auditorium in Manhattan. Few composers, conductors, instrumentalists and singers have achieved mature fame but were "child prodigies" to start with. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart showed talent at 4, genius (in public) at 6, which was Josef Hofmann's age at his piano debut and Nellie Melba's when she first sang to Melbourne, Australia. Handel was skilled on the organ, Meyerbeer on the piano, Schumann at composing, Kreisler and Joachim on the violin, at 7. Eight-year-old Ottavio Gallo (above) has Bach and Paganini as precedents for his precocity. Chopin, Liszt and Rimsky-Korsakov were first...
...Royal Highness, if the imperial schedule is not disturbed, will arrive at the Parliament Building on May 9 in one of the ten British Crossley cars at his official disposal in Australia. Before an assembled throng he will stand with Dame Nellie Melba, 68, "greatest Australian," who will lead a mighty singing of "God Save the King." Soon the Duke will step within, open Parliament, signalize that the world has a new Great Capital...