Word: ravinia
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...Diaghilev Russian Ballet. She is the wife of Thomas Hart Fisher, son of Taft-time Secretary of the Interior Walter Lowrie Fisher, a lawyer in the Chicago firm of Fisher, Boyden, Bell, Boyd & Marshall. During the summers she has been premiere danseuse and ballet mistress at Louis Eckstein's Ravinia Opera; in the winters a solo dancer at Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan. Last year she made an eight-months' tour of the Orient. Last week in Manhattan she gave a recital with her own ensemble...
...Hans Sachs, Wotan, Hagen, King Mark. He has signed a contract to make sound-cinemas, believes that "everyone will soon be running to the cinema to take their music in this new form." In Chicago Louis Eckstein wrote a check for $103,458.50, half the deficit of the Ravinia Opera so that an ardently enthusiastic Chicago public might continue to have summer opera. Said he: "Art pays dividends in beauty. It cannot be expected to pay in material things...
Died. Mrs. Benjamin E. Bensinger, wife of the president of Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. (pool tables, phonographs); of heart disease; at the Lake Shore Country Club (Ravinia...
Kahn & Eckstein. Otto Hermann Kahn, prime patron of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, visited Louis Eckstein, prime patron of Chicago's summer "opera house in the woods" (Ravinia Park). Together they listened to La Rondine...
Said Patron Kahn: "I travel 2,000 miles a year just to spend an evening at Ravinia. I return to New York refreshed...