Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...staged since 1933 after the custom inaugurated by Yaleman Nicholas Roberts, onetime head of defunct S. W. Straus & Co., Manhattan bondhouse. The Yalemen cheered peptalks by Football Coach Raymond ("Ducky") Pond, Captain Lawrence Morgan ("Larry") Kelley and Captain-elect Clinton Frank, sang Boola, Boola under the direction of Radio Singer Lancelot ("Lanny") Ross, 1927 Yale track captain. The Montclair Yale Bowl awarded annually to the Yaleman "who has made his Y in life," first won in 1926 by Pennsylvania Railroad's late President William Wallace Atterbury, went to President Frederick Ely Williamson of the New York Central Railroad, Yale...
...Ever since Caruso died and Farrar quit the Met, its Italian and French wings needed new blood. Witherspoon had planned to go abroad after fresh talent, dropped dead on the eve of his sailing. Johnson's sailing was delayed six weeks. By that time many a top-notch singer had been engaged, and last year's French and Italian performances had to string along with as little life as ever...
Five months ago Impresario Maurice Frank persuaded W. A. Conant, Beverly Hills real estate broker, and wealthy, retired Opera Singer Mme Emma Loeffler de Zaruba to help build a grand opera association in Los Angeles. At the in stance of Mme de Zaruba, a little doubt fully, Impresario Frank picked young James Guthrie to conduct. On the crucial night, most of the town's topnotch musicians were tied up with the Philharmonic...
Married. Mary McCormic, 37, opera singer, onetime wife of the late Prince Serge Mdivani; and Chicago Lawyer Homer V. Johannsen, 35; in Kansas City, Mo. Few hours later, clad in blue satin lounging pajamas, she revealed the news at an Excelsior Springs, Mo. hotel, gaily introduced "Mr. McCormic," her fourth, who had proposed to her only that morning...
Died. Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, 91, oldest U. S. actress, cast in some 400 roles over a 63-year career; after long illness; in Montvale, Va. As Blanche Galton, daughter of a British opera singer, she made her London debut in 1865 in Turco the Terrible, appeared in Manhattan three years later, played the original U. S. "Buttercup" in Gilbert & Sullivan's H. M. S. Pinafore. In 1930 she emerged from retirement for a benefit performance of Trelawny of the Wells...