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...high C in a quick staccato passage in Strauss's Voices of Spring, succeeded in singing a brief B, amazed her listeners with two long, rarefied high G's toward the end of this difficult work. This week she makes her U. S. operatic debut, disdaining a wig, as a 100% blonde Rosina in The Barber of Seville, in the Chicago City Opera. Accompanied by her husky, jovial husband, a onetime Berlin taxicab driver who is now her manager, Mme Sack lives plainly in plain hotels, arises daily at 7 a. m., dislikes to practice. Of her voice...
Banker Gates, who had danced for the Mask & Wig Club as an undergraduate at the U. of P. (Class of 1893) and gone on to become one of Philadelphia's richest men, became bored with private banking in 1930, resigned as a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co. to seek "romance and high adventure" in running his old university, which he insisted on doing without pay. Soon he put Education on a business basis, balancing the budget by reducing expenses from $9,000,000 to $6,000,000 a year, projecting a 15-year money-raising program to replace...
...Hollywood, Mrs. Ida Hoag ran a doll hospital, manufactured and repaired dolls, had a collection containing dolls more than 50 years old. While she was curling a doll's wig, it caught fire. Hastily she threw it aside. It landed in a pile of wigs waiting to be curled. They flared up. Mrs. Hoag started rescuing her dolls, screaming, "save my babies!" Hurried to a hospital where she was treated for severe burns. Mrs. Hoag returned to the wreckage of her building, grieved over the charred arms, legs, heads, torsos of dolls. Wailed she: "Oh, my poor, poor babies...
...apartment he jumps heavily at the worst conclusion, promptly divorces her and takes her baby daughter. Years later Daughter Lisa (Jane Bryan), fatherless now and unaware that Vera is her mother, is escorted into a cabaret one night by villainous Michailow. There Vera, who wears a blonde wig and works as an entertainer, spies them. With her maternal instincts at boiling point, she seizes a handy revolver, riddles Michailow with steely questions. At the trial, determined not to let Lisa know who she is, she keeps nobly mum. In view of the mess Vera has landed herself in, the ending...
...Lodge, the grandson of a onetime Massachusetts Senator and brother of a present one, who left the law for an acting career five years ago. After an un-happy series of roles in Hollywood climaxed when he appeared opposite Marlene Dietrich in The Scarlet Empress in a neck-length wig, vigorous, clean-cut Cinemactor Lodge seems to have found a niche in British cinema. So pleased were his producers by his work in Ourselves Alone that he is now under a long-term starring contract. Already announced is Sensation, from Basil Dean's play Murder Gang, in which...