Word: mesritz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Wanda Toscanini, 25, daughter of Conductor Arturo Toscanini; and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz. 29; in Milan. Divorce Revealed. Lily Pons, 29, French operasinger; from August Mesritz, fiftyish, Dutch lawyer; in Paris. Retiring. Dr. William Holland Wilmer, 70, famed eye surgeon whose patients included Siam's King Prajadhipok, Charles Lindbergh, J. P. Morgan, Booth Tarkington, the late Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Sir Auckland Geddes, Flyer Jimmy Doolittle; as director of Johns Hopkins Hospital's Wilmer Institute of Ophthalmology; next July 1. Reason: retirement...
...brief musical comedy interlude she married August Mesritz, an elderly Dutch retired lawyer and publisher. Husband Mesritz persuaded his young wife to study singing. Every day for three years he took her to the studio of Teacher Alberto de Gorostiaga (who comes in now for 5^ of all her earnings). No one cared then (least of all Paris where she has never sung) that she ate chicken sandwiches for breakfast, liked yellow dresses, hated champagne, elevators, telephones. Such things became matters of acute interest to New Yorkers, who are particularly pleased with the fact that Pons is French. They think...
...career further and more rapidly than I could have done had I remained in Europe." But she continued, in the stilted phrases of her lawyers: "My gratitude does not in any way alter my conviction that she [Madame Zenatello] has been an untrustworthy and unfaithful agent." Husband August Mesritz gave details: "Not only did Maria Gay treat my wife as a puppet to be let out of a box or put in again at her behest but she seemed to live in deadly fear that my wife would become on intimate terms with the Metropolitan management or with other opera...
...Lily Pons's mother, who after the father's death started a dressmaker's establishment in Cannes to provide for her three little girls, moved up to Paris when Lily decided she wanted to study piano at the Conservatoire. The other was Lily Pons's husband, August Mesritz, a wealthy Dutch banker and newspaper manager who retired to tinker at painting at the Riviera. Husband Mesritz first suggested that Lily study for opera. She had had some experience as a comedy ingenue, sang an incidental song once and had a small success. She set to work, within a year made...