Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy, where he is still an Army Major, Lauri-Volpi has worked hard to become a great singer. He planned to sing there as usual this year. But he asked for more than $1,000 a night, special billing, special advertising, best dressing-rooms, and of course a No. 1 star rating. Crushingly from Rome last week came an official communiqué of the Consortium of Lyric Theatres which controls all the lyric theatres and opera houses in Italy, as well as all concert artists under contract. Because of "excessive special conditions," Lauri-Volpi was for an indefinite length...
...Viennese brilliance of Maria Jeritza: she looks Jewish, and like Soprano Alma Gluck and Contralto Sophie Braslau, is proud of it. Annually (except this year) she gives a concert of which the proceeds go to the Raisa Scholarship Foundation, for the musical education of one Jewish boy singer a year. Like many a great singer, she likes to live quietly, hates large parties, guards carefully her health and voice. Most of her Chicago friends are Jewish...
...State was by no means done with the Bank of U. S. failure. Next day diminutive Isidor Jacob Kresel, the bank's counsel, pleaded not guilty to six indictments charging him with the same set of crimes which resulted in the Marcus-Singer conviction. Lawyer Kresel, under Referee Samuel Seabury, had been actively prosecuting the investigation of the Magistrates' Courts in Manhattan (see p. 12) when the Bank of U. S. failed, causing his retirement from public service. From a sick bed, with a fever of 104°, he appeared last winter before the Grand Jury, swore that...
...plodded across the Bridge of Sighs from the Tombs to the Criminal Courts Building. At the head of the procession, handcuffed to a Porto Rican burglar, marched well-groomed Bernard K. Marcus, high-headed president of the defunct Bank of United States. Behind him with head bowed came Saul Singer, chairman of the executive committee, manacled to his 24-year-old son Herbert, bewildered dummy in the bank's subsidiaries. Week before all three had been convicted of wilfully misapplying $8,000,000 of Bank of United States' money before it crashed in the biggest failure...
...believe it was greed on the part of Marcus and Singer that led them into their difficulties. ... I am going to sentence Marcus and Saul Singer to State's prison [Sing Sing] for from three to six years." He sentenced Son Herbert to the penitentiary, three months to three years...