Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-18
c. H. MACKAY WEEDS
MISS ANNA CASE IN
QUIET CEREMONY
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ford, in Philadelphia. This concert was
overheard by Andreas DIPPED, admins
trative manager of the Metropolitan
Opera.
A few DAYS later Miss Case received
letter from mfr. Dippsl asking her to az
range an addition at the Metropolitan.
The auctions were successful, and MISS
Case made her Metropolitan debut in
1910 in the role of the Dutch boy in
Massanet's ''Werther' she IS SAID 70
have been the first American singer &C
cepted by the Metropolitan without Eu-
ropean training. .
For eight years she was a member OF
the Metropolitan. singing among other
roles that of Sophie in Der RosenKa-
Waller" Micaela in Carmen" with Ca
russo and Farrar, and Theodore in Boris
Godounoff."
Miss Case preferred concert singing,
however. and she soon began carer
which averaged between so and 60 con-
cents a year and from $4,000 to 10000
miles travelling.
At the White House she sang before
Presidents Taft, Harding and Coolidge.
Her foreign tours covered England, Hol-
land and Germany.
Made First Sound Picture.
With the arrival of talking pictures,
Miss Case made the first sound picture.
la Fiesta" which was sent around the
country to introduce the new art. She
previously had appeared in silent films.
More recently she has sung in radio
broadcasts.
Miss Case has two brothers, Peter
Stanley Case of New Jersey and Jere-
miah Lester Case of Cleveland. Ohio.
Mr.. Mackay is a native of San Fran
cisco. His father. the late John W.
Mackay. was one of the central figures
in the development of the Comstock
lode at Virginia City, New, and one OF
the empire builders of the Far West
by his discovery of the famous Bonanza
ore body. the richest silver deposit found
m to that time. With James Gordon
Bennett he entered the electrical COM
munications field in 1888 and in 1886
chartered the Postal Telegraph-Cable
Co. and began building up the organiza-
ton to its present standing.
Interested in Music.
Clarence. H. Mackay. who was edu-
Gated by private tutors in France and
England and was graduated from Beau
mont College in 1892, became president
of the Mackay system of telegraphs on
the death of his father, in 1902.
He has long been interested in music
and is a director of the Metropolitan
Opera Company and chairman OF the
board of directors of the Philharmonic
symphony Society of New York.
In recognition of his services to the
public in connection with the develop
ment of musical art, Mr.. Mackay was
awarded in 1926 the gold medal of the
National Institute of Social. Sciences.
In 1928 he received the honorary degree
of doctor Of music, from New York Uni
versity.
Mr. Mackay and his daughter Ellin
became estranged after her marriage
in 1926 to Irving Berlin. who began his
career as a singing waiter and became
one of Americas foremost composers
of popular music 1t was said the
fathers disapproval was based on diff
ference in religious faiths. Although
the Mackays were prominently ldentl-
aed with the Roman Catholic Church,
the Berlins we're married at the Munich
pal Building by city clerk. -
Mrs. Berlin and her father became
,econciled two years later, after the
death of Mr.. Mackay's mother. IN full
fillment. it was said, Of the grand
mothers wish.