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...silver-haired president of Union Stock Yards Co., done up in the usual Empire court dress complete with cream satin knee-pants. Long a leading figure in Omaha, he is credited with having done much to build up the Ak-Sar-Ben stock show. Queen was Eileen Keliher-Jeffers (debut: 1927), daughter of Executive Vice President William Martin Jeffers of Union Pacific...
...Tivoli in 1904, chunky little Luisa Tetrazzini made her U. S. debut and San Francisco thrilled with the pride of discovering her. But mention Tetrazzini to San Franciscans today and they will talk mostly of Christmas Eve, 1910, when she sang for the poor at Lotta's-Fountain, the ugly traffic impediment at Kearney & Market Streets, given by the late Lotta Crabtree who did her first trouping in California. More than 100,000 people heard Tetrazzini do her trills and cadenzas that night, without benefit of modern amplifiers...
...opening night to Soprano Claudia Muzio who can be depended upon for a sure-fire performance of Tosca. Then will come the night which he hopes to make as memorable as the Christmas Eve when Tetrazzini trilled at Lotta's Fountain. Lily Pons will make her San Francisco debut, sing in Lucia di Lammermoor, the opera which introduced her to Manhattan one blizzardy January afternoon two winters...
After the luncheon Harrison will talk in the Common Room on "The Lord at 68 Looks Back". He probably has the most remarkable entrance "cue" in all stage history,--"Gangway! Gangway! For the Lord God Jehovah!" This charming actor made his stage debut only two years ago, when Marc Connelly discovered him giving drama readings on Chautauqua programs and in churches. His talk will be open to interested members of the University. The Club hopes to have other prominent actors speak to it at luncheons during the coming year...
Loretta Young and Eric Linden, well suited to their rôles, are two of the youngest featured players in Hollywood. Linden, 22, made his cinema debut as an usher in Roxy's Theatre, Manhattan. A professor who had taught him English at Columbia saw him there, secured him a job with the Theatre Guild. He acted in Manhattan for one year, went abroad with a U. S. company, toured France on a bicycle, returned on a cattle boat, performed in television. RKO's Are These Our Children? was his first picture. To emphasize his youthful appearance, he seldom...