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...Bronxville, N. Y.; E. D. Chapple '31, Salem; A. C. England, Jr. '33, Pittsfield; L. T. Furth '31, St. Louis, Mo.; Frank Gilchrist '32, Wilmette, Ill.; W. A. Huppuch '33, Glens Falls, N. Y.; Richard Inglis '33. So, Euclid, O.; D. D. Lloyd '31, Plainfield, N. J.; E. L. Popper '32, N. Y. C.; E. S. Randall '33, Rockland; Joseph Rauh, Jr. '32, Cincinnati; R. S. Shuman '31, Jamaica Plain; R. W. Vilter '33, Cincinnati, O.; James Wallerstein '32, White Plains...
Maria Jeritza, well-fed and tanned a warm ecru by a summer on the estate of Baron Leopold von Popper, near Vienna, returned to the U. S. last week. Schnurri II, white cat that she carried to all her performances at the Metropolitan Opera last year, she left behind. She languishes, she said, for Schnurri and the other estate animals-Schnurri's summer lay of kittens; horses, police dogs, dachshund, and a little white lamb. Husband von Popper, gallant and taller than Jeritza, escorted her to San Francisco where she is to sing in a pre-season Tannh...
...world's figure skating championship for ladies for the fourth time, and then skated an exhibition with Karl Schaefer of Vienna who, as far superior to his competitors as she to hers, had won the men's championship. Said a Manhattan journalist of Henie: "Her costume was an eye-popper. . . . The flame-flowered little Nasturtium of the North swept straight into the hearts of her spectators." Fancy Skater J. Lester Madden of Boston wore a red necktie, fell down four times...
...early as 1914 there was talk of Jeritza's coming to the U. S. Otto Kahn had heard her in Europe. So had Mr. Gatti. But then came the War. Vienna stayed German and the Metropolitan Opera went Italian. Jeritza was married-to Baron Leopold Popper de Podraghy,* one of the wealthiest industrialists of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, turned soldier for his Emperor. She herself sang at the front, worked in a hospital. Not until the fall of 1921 did she come to the Metropolitan...
Opera stars with all their trappings went last week from San Francisco to Los Angeles, set up shop there for a ten-day season. Tosca was the first opera with tall, blonde Maria Jeritza (Austrian Baroness von Popper) as the heckled heroine. Of a similar performance given a week earlier in San Francisco, Critic Pitts Sanborn of the New York Telegram wrote...