Music: Ravinia's Bye

Chicago learned last week that there will be no opera this summer at Ravinia Park, rustic pleasure ground up the North Shore. Ravinia's genial patron, Louis Eckstein, is accustomed to bearing the greater part of each season's deficit; last year he and his wife made up $187,884 of the $279,829 loss. This year it has been possible to raise' only one-sixth of what is likely to be needed. But Patron Eckstein is cheerful. Said he: "One inactive season will not destroy Ravinia's prestige at home or abroad. . . . I believe that in 1933, the year of the Century of Progress [world's fair], it will be possible to present at Ravinia a season of such superb artistic distinction that it will attract not only the citizens of Chicago, but music lovers from all parts of the world.''