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...there was talk of Jeritza's coming to the U. S. Otto Kahn had heard her in Europe. So had Mr. Gatti. But then came the War. Vienna stayed German and the Metropolitan Opera went Italian. Jeritza was married-to Baron Leopold Popper de Podraghy,* one of the wealthiest industrialists of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, turned soldier for his Emperor. She herself sang at the front, worked in a hospital. Not until the fall of 1921 did she come to the Metropolitan...
...Manhattan this week, Republican voters in the Congressional district which contains most that is interesting on the wealthiest U. S. island-i.e., it contains the glittering end of Park Avenue and the staccato sectors of Fifth Avenue and Broadway-were asked to choose, for G. O. P. Congressional nominee, between...
...comfortable third floor once occupied by Queen Marie of Rumania (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926, et seq.). Soon fastidious Captain Loewenstein read with pain certain ignorant, flapdoodling headlines. The Times: "LOEWENSTEIN . . . 'MYSTERY MAN'. . . POTENTATE . . . Here With Private Aviator [and] Two Cars." The Herald Tribune: "WORLD'S THIRD WEALTHIEST MAN HERE LIKE KING." The World: "LOEWENSTEIN, FREE LENDER OF $50,000,000 TO BELGIUM, HERE...
Died. James B. Ford, 84, vice president of the United States Rubber Co. and commodore since 1915 of the Larchmont Yacht Club; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. At one time one of the wealthiest men in the U. S., he left a fortune estimated...
Engaged. Prince Eitel Friedrich, 44, second son of former Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Mme. Clara Sielchen Schwartz, 52, widow of Opera Singer Joseph Schwartz. Reputed second wealthiest prince in Europe, Eitel Friedrich was divorced in 1927 by the former Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg, who subsequently married a Berlin police officer...