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Last week a similar group showed signs of sprouting in Ridgefield, Conn. There at his estate, "Dunrovin," wealthy Manhattan Attorney William Matheus Sullivan, long an admirer of England's Glyndebourne Festival, recently inaugurated the Dunrovin Festival which he hoped would develop along similar lines. Held in a remodeled coach house, the first Dunrovin Festival was a modest beginning. Only one session of opera was held, and that consisted merely of isolated scenes from three Mozart operas. But last week a capacity audience of some 350 agreed that Dunrovin's preliminary samples of custom-made opera were impressive...
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Raymond T. Benedict '38. He is 20 years of aged, weighs 170 pounds and is 6 feet 2 inches tall. He prepared for Harvard at Pauling School. His home is in Ridgefield, Connecticut. He swims the 220 yard free style with an approximate time...
...small Father Farrar played professional baseball, kept a men's furnishing store in Melrose, Mass., sold it to help finance her study in Europe. When fame came Geraldine changed the accent on her name. But her father stayed plain "Syd" Farrar. In late years he farmed in Ridgefield, Conn., where Geraldine also has a home. Custom was for him to lunch with her daily, to eat in his shirt sleeves if the day was warm...
Evidence, in part, of Lotte Lehmann's musicianship are the musical friends she has made. Toscanini attends all her recitals. She is Bruno Walter's favorite singer. The now wise and settled Farrar invites her to her country home in Ridgefield, Conn. A fan Lehmann uses in Der Rosenkavalier is a treasured talisman. Farrar carried it in her glamorous days...