The Golden Gate is well on the way to the possession of a Diamond Horseshoe. The San Francisco Opera Association is rapidly raising $125,000 by calling upon generous westerners to become "Founders," at the price of $50 per head. Already 1,807 of the necessary 2,500 fees have been collected, and there is general jubilation. Maestro Gaetano Merola has been appointed producing director of the Association, and has already announced his program for 1924-25.
Bradford Mills, business manager of the whole project, at a backers' luncheon, held in the palatial Hotel St. Francis,...