Word: somes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera is about the best in the world. For nearly half a century, however, its financial setup has been nearly as musty as some of its scenery. The Metropolitan Opera Association, which produces the operas, does not own the dirty, mustard-colored building on midtown Broadway...
Last week the Detroit Symphony, needing $75,000 to complete a $280,000 budget for the approaching season, faced a problem much like the Metropolitan's. In its 25 years, the Symphony raised $4,000,000 by passing the hat. Half the donations came from twelve old Detroit families...
Mrs. Hugh Dillman (once Mrs. Horace Elgin Dodge), vice president of the Detroit Symphony, has given it some $1,000,000 in 20 years, but this year felt obliged to reduce her contribution from $50,000 to $30,000-top donation in the drive. Moreover, the Symphony has sadly missed...
This week in the little French village of La Napoule in the Alpes Maritimes, townspeople and fishermen streamed across the Place Henry Clews, through the great gate of the Chateau de la Napoule, to the carved and vaulted mausoleum within. They went to pay their respects to their benefactor, buried...
Last week Mrs. Clews, now living in La Napoule, where she is writing her late husband's life, announced that her sculpture-encrusted Chateau de la Napoule will be permanently thrown open to the public some time this year, expose to the tourist gaze the medieval riches, actual and...