Word: opera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Milton Herman Esberg, 64, tobacco tycoon (General Cigar Co.) and music lover, who boosted the San Francisco Opera Association to success; of heart disease; in San Francisco...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera is about the best in the world. For nearly half a century, however, its financial setup has been nearly as musty as some of its scenery. The Metropolitan Opera Association, which produces the operas, does not own the dirty, mustard-colored building on midtown Broadway, but leases it from the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Co. This organization is nothing more nor less than the owners of the Metropolitan's 35 parterre boxes ("Diamond Horseshoe"). Each box holder owns 300 shares of $100-par stock, and liability for a possible annual assessment...
Manhattan society has let its hair down in recent years, no longer counts an opera box the chief symbol of eminence. Metropolitan box holders have begun to dodge their assessments. Last week the fact-facing news came out that the real-estate company is feeling the pinch, may face liquidation. So said its President Robert S. Brewster in a letter to the Opera Association's Chairman Cornelius Newton Bliss. In reply, the Association (which has a lease for next season) asked for an option on the opera house for $1,500,000 (one-third cash). Should the option contract...
...Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, The Yeomen of the Guard, or The Merryman and His Maid is nearest in style to grand opera, gives able singers most to get their teeth into. Last week The Yeomen was the offering of the eighth annual play festival in the plushy, chandeliered, 61-year-old Opera House in Central City, Colo...
Probably never had a better singing cast performed it: the Metropolitan Opera's Tenor Charles Kullmann and Soprano Hilda Burke in the leads, Contralto Anna Kaskas as the housekeeper, cadaverous Singer-Actor Richard Hale as broken hearted Jester Jack Point...