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Mary Garden, 1874-1967. Scottish/American Operatic Soprano and Giorgio Polacco, 1873-1960, Italian opera conductor, aboard the RMS Aquitania on their way to shake up the Chicago Opera scene. from his allmusic.com bio . . .

After that first Chicago season, engagements in France, Cuba, and South America kept the conductor busy until Mary Garden called him in 1921 to become music director and principal conductor of the Chicago Opera, reorganized as the Chicago Civic Opera. Working with the tempestuous Garden, Polacco -- despite several voluble conflicts with his "directa" -- filled the position more than honorably. From the November 14, 1921, production of Samson et Dalila through the time of his retirement for health reasons in 1930, the conductor concentrated on his work in Chicago, conducting just one year (1927) in Boston. During his Chicago tenure, Polacco confirmed his outstanding grasp of a wide-ranging repertory and an unflagging ability to light fires under nearly any cast. He often conducted Garden, notably in her French repertory and in Strauss' Salome. Polacco's final Chicago performance found him leading Garden's Mélisande on February 1, 1930.

For more on Garden see

They arrived on October 21, 1921, s. The New York herald. [volume], October 22, 1921, Page 9 (photo) chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045774/1921-10-22/ed-...

The Richmond times-dispatch., May 22, 1921, Image 56 printed a similar photo with the caption: "Mrs. Wendell Phillips, National President of the Carry-On Association, snapped on her arrival in New York from Europe. She was the only woman spectator at the Reparations Conference." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045389/1921-05-22/ed-... She arrived on the Aquitania on April 30, 1921, s. New-York tribune., May 01, 1921, Page 12, col. 1 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1921-05-01/ed-...

The Carry-on association was an organization for the purpose of aiding wounded veterans of the war, s. photo in The citizen-Republican., June 23, 1921, Image 5 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99062010/1921-06-23/ed-...

That hat is.....interesting....

Thanks for the ID and details B-59. And, yes, that hat is interesting.

Sir Cecil Herbert Edward Chubb, 1st Baronet (14 April 1876 – 22 September 1934), was the last private owner of Stonehenge prehistoric monument, Wiltshire, which he donated to the British government in 1918.

according to Wikipedia, this photo was taken in May 1926 on the RMS Aquitania

Mary Chubb (22 March 1903 – 22 January 2003) was a British writer and archaeologist. She has been described as "the first professional excavation administrator".

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