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...opera performances. The deficits were enormous, the affairs badly tangled. Mr. McCormick thought that practical, hard-working Herbert Johnson might help straighten things out. Professionally unacquainted with music and musicians, a Lockport, Ill. native with only routine office experience, Herbert Johnson soon got a taste for prima-donna intrigues and backstage excitement. He had worked up to become vice president and business manager of Insull's Civic Opera Company when disaster struck it. Last winter, lost without opera's confusion and glamour, he started making plans. There were two big questions: How much guarantee money could be raised...
...later, both women migrated from Broadway to Europe, the racy Josephine to gaudy fame in the Casino de Paris, Catherine Yarborough to drudge over the scores of Aïda and L'Africaine in France and Italy. Some day she meant to return, become the first Negro prima donna to sing in a U. S. opera house. Last week, two days before her 30th birthday, she did so as Caterina Jarboro with Alfredo Salmaggi's Chicago Opera Company in Manhattan's vast Hippodrome. Dusky Harlemites, high and low, turned out to cheer her triumph and theirs...
HARVARD B. U. Cleaves, g. g., Hathaway Rogers, c.p. c.p., Davis David, p. p., Berteline Thorndike, 1d. 1d., Di Angelis Rabinovitz, 2d. 2d., Buckley Housen, c. c., Mathers Feins, 2a. 2a., Horn Graziano, 1a. 1a., Paterno Owens, o.h. o.h., Donna Tucker, i.h. i.h., Muchnick...
Engaged. John Jacob Astor III, 20, posthumous son of John Jacob Astor (drowned on S. S. Titanic), $3,000,000 heir on his 21st birthday; and Donna Cristiana Torlonia, Manhattan socialite, daughter of Rome's Prince Marino TorIonia...
Eleven months of the year motorcars may be prosaic things of steel and glass. But in January, when the automobile fairs are held throughout the land, this prima donna of the industrial stage is greeted with acclaim and if her appearance succeeds she is well rewarded...