Word: cravath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Margaret Halstead's début aroused more curiosity than the others. Few operagoers had heard of her until the Metropolitan announced a few weeks ago that it had engaged her. Then it became generally known that she was a protegee of Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath. that her grandfather was Murat Halstead. Cincinnati journalist famed among other things for having witnessed and vividly described the hanging of John Brown at Harper's Ferry. Margaret Halstead's father, friend of Lawyer Cravath, was until recently U. S. Consul General in London. His strapping soprano daughter was a nervous, inexperienced siren...
...angry cry against him. To G. 0. Partisans, it looked like the long-awaited "break" by ambitious young Mr. Roosevelt. He was indignantly accused of "slurring" the Court's high character. Two Republican ex-Governors of New York (Whitman and Miller) were publicly amazed and shocked. Paul Drennan Cravath, whose person might have been the model for Cartoonist Rollin Kirby's personification of the G. O. P., was sure all decent lawyers would "resent" the statement. President Hoover at Indianapolis thundered...
...weeks to 16 weeks. A 25%, decrease in salaries is expected to result from Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza's appeal to the company. With these changes the Metropolitan hopes to go on for a time giving opera in the old house. But last week Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath strongly indicated that the company would eventually move to Rockefeller Center...
Last week for the first time Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company admitted what everyone already knew: that it was at the end of its resources. Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath frankly announced that there were insufficient funds to assure another season. The directors are to meet next week to determine the Company's fate...
Soon after the onset of Hansel und Gretel came telegrams of praise. Director Giulio Gatti-Casazza, pleased as Punch, had been popping to & from the backstage office of Press Agent William J. ("Billy") Guard, where a receiving set had been installed. Chairman Cravath was impressed. "A miracle! . . ." said Radio Conductor Walter Johannes Damrosch. The engineers who had succeeded in making the whole country (and several further parts of the world) an opera house, said that the old part-wooden Met was much easier to work with than Chicago's handsome new opera house, whose concrete tends to give off bass...