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Second only to Chicago's Ravinia Park season is the summer opera given in Cincinnati's Zoological Garden.* Each year a ten-week season is given there, eight of grand opera, two of light. A standard repertoire is presented, with Parsifal and Don Giovanni ambitiously included this year. Picked players from the Cincinnati Symphony perform under able Conductor Isaac Van Grove. The singing is by worthy if not world-famed artists. (New this year: Soprano Helen Freund, Tenors Edward Molitore, Joseph Wetzel, Giuseppe Reschiglian, Baritone Joseph Royer, one-time member of the company...
...Manager Charles G. Miller sounded the warning before the season began. The Zoo is a private venture for which the late Mrs. Mary Emery and Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft once generously provided. Now there are no outstanding self-sacrificing patrons who can compare with Chicago's Insull or Ravinia's Eckstein. Last year there was a deficit of $27,000 which might have been avoided if seats had been filled at every performance. A group of businessmen salvaged the situation then but Manager Miller was unable to find 50 patrons who would organize to ensure...
June 21?Beginning of ten-week opera season; at Ravinia Park, Chicago...
June 21?Beginning of ten-week opera season; at Ravinia Park, Chicago...
...Writer & Mrs. Tiffany Blake of the Tribune; Miss Caroline ("Madame X") Kirkland, society colyumist of the Tribune; and Artist Frederick Clay Bartlett and his socialite sister; Bishop & Mrs. Charles Palmerston Anderson (he is the new presiding officer of the Protestant Episcopal Church; Mr. & Mrs. Louis Eckstein (he backs the Ravinia Opera); Mr. & Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank (she, a potent socialite Democrat); Mrs. Bertha Baur (socialite Republican); Mr. and Mrs. Arch Wilkinson Shaw (President Hoover consults him on business...