TRANSCRIPTION:
Edwin Mochary – Manager
Telephone – Columbus 0333-0334
James N. Vincent – Treasurer
Cosmopolitan Theatre1
operated by
The Cosmopolitan Playhouse, Inc.
William Randolph Hearst, President
Columbus Circle
New York City
Febr[uary] 2 [Year?]
My dear Frank2
My sincerest thanks for your
kind good wishes.
I did not hear the concert
because our radio had a broken
tube that couldn’t be replaced
in the last moment.
However, I had several letters from
Phil. [adelphia?] telling me of the beautiful
concert Pasternack3 gave.
Too bad I couldn’t have heard it.
Please remember me to dear Mrs. Buhler [?]
and let me thank you again
for your good wishes.
Most sincerely
Yours truly,
Victor Herbert
NOTES:
1) In the early 1920s, William Randolph Hearst
bought and renovated the Cosmopolitan Theater on 58th Street (Columbus Circle)
in New York City. It was this theater that premiered Erich von Stroheim's epic
motion picture "GREED" in December 1924.
2) Possibly Frank Damrosch.
It was he who brought Herbert to America as a result of hiring his fiancée,
Therese Förster, a soprano
with the Stuttgart Opera, where Herbert played cello.
Herbert followed his bride to the U.S. after she signed with the New
York Metropolitan Opera at the behest of Frank Damrosch..
3) Josef Pasternack-conductor
and violist
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