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Last week at New York's Polo Grounds Promoter Michael Strauss Jacobs, as a last gesture before taking over the boxing franchise of the great Madison Square Garden, staged fights for four champions instead of three-all on one night. Into the ring to grace this Carnival of Champions climbed Heavyweight Joe Louis to shake hands with his most recent opponent, Tommy Farr. But Champion Joe Louis, Mike Jacobs' star attraction, did not fight that night for the paying customers...
...paper. In the case of the ballets Massine had done while in de Basil's employ (Les Présages, Chorearthim, Cimarosiana, Cantes Russes), de Basil was entitled to an option. Massine retained exclusive rights to the popular Three-Cornered Hat (music by de Falla), Beau Danube (Strauss), La Boutique Fantasque (Rossini), designed prior to the de Basil connection...
Died. Frederick Strauss, senior partner in the international banking firm of J. & W. Seligman & Co.; on his 72nd birthday; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Having for a generation applied himself with resource and concentration worthy of a more respectable cause, last week Michael Strauss Jacobs finally emerged at the pinnacle of the prizefight business. No one in the business was at all surprised, for the man who taught the late Tex Rickard more than one trick of the trade has for years been climbing the ladder of his chosen profession like a Horatio Alger hero...
...Walter was allotted Mozart's Don Giovanni and Marriage of Figaro, Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice, Weber's Euryanthe. Conductor Hans Knapperts-busch, new to Salzburg, had the cards stacked in his favor. Rosa Pauly was to sing the title role in his production of Strauss's Elektra and nobody alive is better qualified. For the Marschallin in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, he was to have Soprano Lotte Lehmann...