Word: ravinia
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...soloist in a Kansas City church, a student at the Bush Conservatory in Chicago where she also sang in Balaban & Katz theatres, a soloist with the Minneapolis Symphony, a minor member of the Chicago Civic Opera Company. After a summer in Europe and three seasons with the Ravinia Opera Company in the U. S., she joined the Metropolitan in 1929, made her debut as the blind mother in La Gioconda...
Died. Louis Eckstein, 70, capitalist, onetime magazine publisher (Red Book, Blue Book, Green Book), founder and president of Chicago's Ravinia Opera Company; of bronchial pneumonia; in Chicago. Obliged by heavy losses to discontinue Ravinia's summer opera in 1931, Mr. Eckstein estimated he had spent $1,000,000 in its support...
...divulged), be ready to leave by Nov. 20 when Mr. Johnson hoped to move in? Mr. Johnson would have his Grand Opera run for ten weeks. On the dais will be a slim little man who is no stranger to Chicago opera-Gennaro Papi, who had 13 summers at Ravinia (and 14 winters at the Metropolitan). Well aware of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's popularity, Mr. Johnson decided against having performances Thursday or Friday, traditionally Orchestra dates. But there will be a Saturday matinee. Seats will range from 50? to $3; season tickets from $4.75 to $27.50. By last...
...World's Fair without music would be a disgrace to so musically proud a city as Chicago. But with Samuel Insull's Civic Opera collapsed, Louis Eckstein unable to get enough others to help him carry on opera at woodsy Ravinia, and the Chicago Symphony in trouble with the Musicians' Union, that was what threatened. The Chicago Friends of Music organized ambitiously last winter to raise $100,000 for an outdoor Temple of Music to be built near the Fair grounds (TIME, Dec. 26). Some $25,000 was raised. The Temple idea was abandoned...
...Charles B. Alexander, Mrs. Robert Goelet) waved $1,000 checks from the Diamond Horseshoe. Contributions of $10,000, biggest individual ones so far, came from Pierre du Pont and Louis Eckstein who still hopes to be able to give his own opera this summer at Chicago's Ravinia Park. The Metropolitan received unexpected revenue lately when a jigsaw puzzle firm paid for the privilege of using photographs of famed singers, scenes from the opera...