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Following her success abroad, Mary Garden returned to the U.S. in 1907, and eventually implanted herself as the prima donna of the Chicago Grand Opera Co. Her reign was absolute, and in 1921, when she was appointed director of the company, the local newspapers happily crowned her "Mary the First." But, single-minded hellion that she often was, her shakeup of the existing order resulted in several squabbles with other singers, two lawsuits, a loss of $1,000,000 and an assassination threat. After one season, she decided that "my place is with the artists, not over them...
...Oppernockety. From all indications, Cerf runs a happy shop as well as a contented stable. "They're all prima donnas," he chortles. "We're a firm of prima donnas!" When he tells a visitor that Jason Epstein is "the cross I have to bear," Epstein retorts, "and Bennett is the bear I have to cross." Corporation Secretary Charles A. Wimpfheimer, 38, gets in on the fun now and then. He once installed a parking meter in Cerf's private washroom, probably because Cerf himself started the local bathroom jokes by placing two copies of Lindbergh...
...HUROK PRESENTS (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). A galaxy of stars twinkling in tribute to Impresario Sol Hurok. Representing only a few of the hundreds he has sponsored during the past 55 years are Marian Anderson, Van Cliburn, Isaac Stern, Andres Segovia, the Bolshoi Ballet with Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya and Antonio and the Ballets de Madrid...
...performing arts," the study unsurprisingly concludes, "financial crisis is a way of life." This crisis, contrary to most notions, is not caused by bungling management, featherbedding stage unions, overpriced prima donnas or "ice" (boxoffice funds sluiced away to scalpers); such factors are only "peripheral," according to William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen, the Princeton economists who wrote the report. The root problem is the built-in technological liability of the live performing arts...
...days when many opera houses did not even bother to list the conductor's name on the program. By contrast, his appearances at the Met this season, especially his inspired reading of Die Frau (TIME, Oct. 14), have loosed the kind of stormy ovation usually reserved for prima donnas...