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Lippert Jr., 9, who sometimes directs the choir. The other is William Stevenson Jr., 8. But Director Lippert will let no one in his troupe be regarded as a prima donna. Even the finances are run on a completely co-operative basis. As the choir makes money, 60% of the profits will be allotted equally among the boys who must set it aside to be used toward a college education or toward entering some business which must be approved by Director Lippert and his board of trustees...
Physiologist Herbert Spencer Gasser was awed by the great science factory which Mr. Rockefeller financed, which Dr. Simon Flexner created 33 years ago and now relinquished to become director emeritus. Dr. Gasser was fascinated by the scientific prima donnas of the Institute from whom he was expected to produce harmony. And Dr. Gasser was flabbergasted by the newspapermen and one hardbitten, red-headed woman who breathed cigaret smoke at him. Mr. Rockefeller, who showed no discomfort from the smoke, had to help Dr. Gasser out with the interview...
Married. Maria Jeritza, 41, Austrian opera singer, longtime prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera Company, divorced wife of Baron Leopold von Popper de Podhragy of Hungary; and Winfield Richard ("Winnie") Sheehan, 51, onetime New York World police reporter, long-time (1926-35) vice president of Fox Films in charge of production until his recent resignation (TIME,, July 29); in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...years what she affectionately called a "potato" grew in the neck of Mme Amelita Galli-Curci, forcing her to adjust her coloratura soprano to 50% less wind volume. Last week in Chicago, while the onetime prima donna trilled tones and scales to show the effects on her voice, surgeons working with a local anesthetic successfully cut away a 6½-oz. goitre...
...Ziegfeld, father of the late musicomedy producer, this privately-run institution is the oldest music school in continuous existence in the U. S.. is now headed by Pianist Rudolph Ganz. This spring when an intermediary suggested to Soprano Garden that she teach there for six weeks, the onetime prima donna of the Chicago Opera willingly accepted. Tuition for the course ("Opera - Stage Deportment - Dramatic Song''): $150. From hundreds of applicants, all of whom were supposed to have had training and to show great promise. Miss Garden selected 51. Nine qualified for scholarships given by such people...