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Among recent visitors were Nancy Carroll (stage and cinema). Gladys Swarthout (opera), Mrs. Byron Foy (society), Lilly Daché (hats), Hattie Carnegie (gowns), Mrs. Florence Camp ("My Everything" of Bundleader Fritz Kuhn, who was in Sing Sing...
...Chicago Civic Opera performance of Mignon, Tito Schipa, supposed to carry Gladys Swarthout off stage, let Désiré Defrère substitute in the job. Proxy Defrère stumbled, dropped her. Explained Slacker Schipa: "She is, you understand, a little heavy, I do not say she is fat, just a little heavy." Retorted Proxy Defrère, "I slipped on a tack. It was only natural I do the job. Schipa is too puny...
...celebration provided for and by this august gathering consisted of songs (Mezzo-Soprano Gladys Swarthout, Baritone John Charles Thomas) and speeches. Three of the speeches were thumping successes...
...miles shuttling between New York, where he conducted, and Hollywood, where he courted ("I proposed to Lily every time I went out"); in a tea house on Miss Pons's estate at Silver Mine, Conn. Maid of honor: Soprano Geraldine Farrar. Guests: Sopranos Grace Moore, Gladys Swarthout...
Although the regular companion picture, "Romance in the Dark," brings Gladys Swarthout and John Boles in a pleasant, if unoriginal, musical, tonight's special showing of "Paradise for Three" may be more heartily endorsed. Despite the classic angle, dear to the heart of German A, it is good comedy in the best Robert Young tradition...