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...Marche Militaire Schubert *Overture to "Mignon" Thomas *To a Water Lily MacDowell *Fantasia, "Il Trovatore" Verdi *A Victory Ball Schelling *Ballet Music from "Rosamunde" Schubert *Third Movement from the "pathetic" Symphony, No. 6 Tchaikovsky Allegro molto vivace "Finlandia," Symphonic Poem Sibelius "Over There, World War Medley Arranged by M. L. Lake...
Regal in a fur-trimmed, flamingo gown, Contralto Wettergren went through her usual Swedish rigmarole of demanding a kick in the rear for good luck on her open-ing night. Beauteous Mrs. Edward Morris performed this kickoff. Then Wettergren rippled through an aria from Thomas' Mignon, squatted rather than bowed to accept a bouquet of chrysanthemums from the Swedish Choral Society. But what brought the Chicago audience to its feet and earned Singer Wettergren five encores was a group of Swedish and Finnish songs. She sang these, according to Critic Claudia Cassidy of the business-like Journal of Commerce...
Another money-raising device was adopted last week when Chairman James A. Farley sat down with 1,300 other Democrats in Philadelphia's Penn Athletic Club. They ate fruit cocktail, consomme, filet mignon, two vegetables, combination salad, dessert and coffee and they paid a minimum of $100 apiece for the meal. Gross proceeds: $130,000 plus...
...Kansas wheat farm, whither she retired in a huff in 1929, she has trained down from 146 to 105 lb., is now slender, sharp-featured, vivacious. Definitely wooden as an actress, she displays a Mid-western twang when speaking, is at ease only when singing arias from Mignon and Les Huguenots, beside which the popular concoctions written for the film are apt to seem unusually hollow...
...dinner and the night he went to the home of Publisher Edward H. Butler of the Buffalo Evening News. Next morning he attested his eligibility for high place by revealing that he had sat up until 2 a. m. reading a detective story, The House on the Roof by Mignon Eberhart...