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...salaries and a shortened season a $400,000 deficit had directors wondering last week whether to disband or attempt drastic reorganization. Most credible rumor: a twelve weeks' season in New York might be combined with visits to other cities which would be called upon for backing. Louis Eckstein, Ravinia's patron and newest of the Metropolitan's directors, would help arrange a Chicago engagement...
Louis Eckstein, patron of Ravinia Opera M.F.A...
Chicago learned last week that there will be no opera this summer at Ravinia Park, rustic pleasure ground up the North Shore. Ravinia's genial patron, Louis Eckstein, is accustomed to bearing the greater part of each season's deficit; last year he and his wife made up $187,884 of the $279,829 loss. This year it has been possible to raise' only one-sixth of what is likely to be needed. But Patron Eckstein is cheerful. Said he: "One inactive season will not destroy Ravinia's prestige at home or abroad. . . . I believe that...
...workings. Banker Kahn owns from 70 to 80% of the producing company's stock but, contrary to the impression he sometimes gives, he has never "backed" it in the sense that Mr. & Mrs. Harold Fowler McCormick once backed Chicago's Opera or that Louis Eckstein now personally backs Ravinia. For more than 20 years Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza has run New York's opera and managed to enhance its prestige without incurring a deficit. He presents each season several new operas and the world's highest priced singers. He even built up a reserve fund which carried him through last...
Died. Julius Rosenwald, 69, philanthropist, board chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; of arteriosclerosis complicated by heart and kidney disease; in Ravinia...