A sad story of opera singers and conductors turning fat pay checks into engraved stock certificates, then suddenly finding those certificates worthless and themselves out of jobs, was given to the Chicago Daily News by Emma Redell, large Baltimore-born soprano who sails this week to give 30 concerts in Russia on the invitation of the Soviet Government. Soprano Redell did not invest in Samuel Insull's utility corporations but she told a tale which made the News investigate the circumstances and whereabouts of Chicago Civic Opera artists who did. Said she: "Whenever some...
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