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...yachting trip, England's Edward VIII had stopped in Salzburg, snapshot the land marks, heard no music. Elsa Maxwell, funster for the unimaginative rich, was there. So were Steelman Myron Taylor, Music Patron Harry Harkness Flagler, Mrs. Woolworth Donahue, Secretary of Labor Frances Perhins, Singers Ganna Walska and Feodor Chaliapin. Long before the season opened, 11,316 U. S. visitors had made hotel reservations, bought $200,000 worth of concert and opera tickets. Last week with the Salzburg season half over, hawkers were doing a thriving business in cushions for the hard Festspielhaus seats, trade at the Cafe Bazar...
...newspapers with proletarian audiences screeched at Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow when the Paris-Midi reported that she had paid Singer Ganna Walska $1,200,000 for a collection of emeralds which Napoleon III once gave to his mistress, the Contessa di Castiglione. Next day the reported purchase was denied, and in the U. S. arrived first pictures of the christening in London of Countess Barbara's burly three-month son Lance. Held up for photographers at the door of Marlborough House Chapel, gurgling Baby Lance showed less resemblance to his sleek parents than to his chubby grandfather...
Harvester's new chairman is Cyrus' younger brother, Harold Fowler McCormick, whose first wife was the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick. Later he married Singer Ganna Walska, whom he divorced in 1931. When Brother Cyrus retired to the board-chairmanship in 1918, Harold succeeded him as Harvester's president, held the office for four years, has since been chairman of Harvester's finance committee...
...Madame Walska concentrated then on perfumes. But luxury articles slumped first in Depression and she got out of business, bought the Théâtre des Champs Elysées which she still owns. Singing remains Walska's passion but the Philadelphia audience was hard put to understand why last week. She cannot get along without her notes. Each song sounds just like the last. What tone she has is thin and warbly. Yet with the scantiest encouragement she comes back beaming to teeter through an encore. The Philadelphia Record said: "Madame Walska's art is that...
...What prompted Ganna Walska to put vine leaves in her hair...