Monday, Mar. 30, 1925
For Paris
Backed by a group* of wealthy U. S. Semites and Gentiles, a new opera company has been incorporated to give a five-week season in Paris, starting May 18. This company, dubbed the American-Italian-French Grand Opera Company, has secured the services of Mary Garden and Rosa Raisa, also of Elvira de Hidalgo, Toti dal Monte, Queena Mario, Lucille Chalfont, Grace Moore, Yvette Ruzel, Vanda Nomicos, Eva Clark, Mary Lawrence, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Giacomo Rimini, Giuseppe de Luca, Adamo Didur, Georges Baklanov.
*The patrons include Mrs. Clarence Millheiser, Mrs. Minette Hirst, Dr. and Mrs. Seymour Oppenheimer, William Braden, Edgar J. Kauffman, Colonel Herbert H. Lehman, Forry S. Lancks, Messmore Kendall, Colonel Walter D. Scott, Mr: and Mrs. Oliver Harriman, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Winkler, Mrs. Irena Hopper, Robert Gillespi, Sir Joseph Duveen, Frank Stoors.