A couple of policemen shooed 50 high-school girls away from the stage door. The Chicago Civic Opera House was jammed with about 300 men, 2,700 women, all of whom had bought their tickets at least a month before. They had come to hear a baritone, Nelson Eddy, who is certainly the handsomest man on the U. S. concert stage and, with radio and cinema earnings, probably the best paid (a reported $600.000 a year).
Mr. Eddy, with much flashing of strong, white teeth, much glancing of roguish eyes, sang his audience into rapture. Few cared whether his velvety, beautifully controlled voice molded...
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