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...consider as earnings the assessments paid by insured banks. Besides its $1,000,000 net earnings on operations it collected $38,800.000 of such assessments in 1937. Last week FDIC's white-shocked Chairman Leo Thomas Crowley was pleased with his year's handiwork. Popping up in Baton Rouge before the Louisiana Bankers Conference, he declared: "We both have sizable sums wagered on the ability of American banks to live down the unsavory aspects of their past record and to begin a long era of sound and profitable operation...
...stage Mr. Warning presents several pretty girls with various talents as singers, dancers, and even a drum major. The last, a Miss Betty Atkinson, recently twirled the baton for the University of Southern California. While her dancing tnd twirling are not extraordinary, her face and figure are a far cry and a welcome relief from "Harvard coods...
Last week, while the Philharmonic's pudgy head violinist, Mishel Piastro, laid down his fiddle and picked up the baton to conduct the orchestral accompaniment, Conductor Enesco laid down his baton and picked up a fiddle to play the solo. Carnegie Hall's audience and the critical pundits found his fiddling in Bach's Concerto in A Minor for Violin and String Orchestra the last word in intelligent interpretation. Composer Enesco will again play a double part on next week's Philharmonic programs when he conducts his own Rumanian Rhapsody...
...Cigna, Kirsten Flagstad, pitched in to send Officer Stinson abroad to study. This week Officer George Stinson, on leave of absence from the California Highway Patrol, sails, with his wife and 16-year-old stepson, for Italy. Said he: "I hope someone hits me over the head with a baton when I get to Rome, otherwise I'll continue to believe I'm dreaming...
...Lamoureux (Strads, like Pullman cars, all have individual names). Listeners marveled at the mellow, homogeneous tone quality of the eight glistening, red-gold instruments played by the Musical Art Quartet and the Stradivarius .Quartet of New York, the small string orchestra over which senatorial Walter Damrosch waved a deliberate baton. The occasion for this Stradivarius display was the 200th anniversary of the death of Antonio Stradivari. Proceeds went to the recently founded Stradivarius Memorial Association, which helps make fine instruments available to talented young musicians...