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Doctors of Evanston, Highland Park, Ravinia and Lake Forest, Illinois communities along Lake Michigan shore north of Chicago, announced last week that they would charge double fees for calls they received after 7 p. m. Their decision excited comment in the Chicago Journal of Commerce, business newspaper...
Operas performed or scheduled this summer at Ravinia: Madame Butterfly, Romeo and Juliette, Rigoletto, Faust, Martha, Aida, and The King's Henchman, a new opera (TIME, June 7) by Deems Taylor (score) and Edna St. Vincent Millay (libretto...
...Ravinia. Last week, a time-table was printed in the Chicago daily press. It listed the trains which would be running for the next while between Chicago and a place called Ravinia, 21 miles north. Why anyone should want to be going to Ravinia puzzled a number of dolts, until they read that rich, artistic Louis Eckstein was again presenting operas there. Those who obeyed the timetable, found themselves in a park roofed by tall trees. Some dined sumptuously at a restaurant and danced to jazz; others stocked up at the hot-dog stand, or picnicked at rustic tables...
Last week, a time-table was printed in the Chicago daily press. It listed the trains which would be running for the next while between Chicago and a place called Ravinia, 21 miles north. Why anyone should want to be going to Ravinia puzzled a number of dolts, until they read how one Louis Eckstein was presenting operas there. The first was L'Amore dei Tre Re, with Martinelli, Bori and Virgilio Lazzari, "the best basso that has hung in Paris for 30 years...
Many who were present at that performance came from farther than 21 miles away. The Ravinia opera pavilion, built in 1905 of pine lumber, has remarkably fine acoustics. Said Otto Kahn, famed banker and music patron: "It is like a fine old Stradivarius violin...