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...Convention Hall in limousines, taxicabs, streetcars, busses, on foot. Curious, mildly excited, they piled in, made a good showing in the big, barnlike hall that holds 10,000 when packed. When all was over, Conductor Volpe got a surprise. Concertmaster Jacque Blumberg, using his bow for a baton, led three trumpets, three trombones in an encore written especially for the occasion, entitled, appropriately, "Fanfare...
...Mengelberg, Richard Strauss), he has a sub-deltoid bursitis or "glass arm," an affliction which orchestra leaders and schoolboys get from the same cause. Schoolboys get it from throwing pebbles or crabapples instead of baseballs, conductors from putting too much energy into their waving of a light, non-resistant baton. Toscanini has given magnificent performances this autumn but doing so he has had constantly to shift his baton to his left hand, let his painful right arm rest limp. He will go to Switzerland for treatments, hopes to be back by March...
...made to get something new; one of the most important innovations in the Band was the addition of two cymbal players to the regular kinds of musicians. Another innovation this season was the addition of another drum-major to the membership, Paul Metcalf, a schoolboy, who wielded a baton for the first time shortly after the Bates game and under the tutelage of the leader of the Band, G. V. Slade '32, learned to manipulate it sufficiently well so that he made his appearance with the Band in the Dartmouth game...
...writes Dr. John Earle Uhler in a novel, Cane Juice, which he published last month.* A Yankee, born in Media, Pa. forty years ago, he had gone to Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge) to be a member of its English department after teaching for eleven years at Johns Hopkins. He admitted he wished to "write a lyrical story of Louisiana life." He visited Louisiana bayous, talked to Creoles and Cajun folk, watched them at work in sugar-houses. Last week Dr. Uhler's cane juice was seething, fermenting angrily...
...Baton Rouge priest, Rt. Rev. Mgr. F. J. Gassier, read Cane Juice with rising indignation. Last fortnight he circulated a mimeographed attack upon it. Excerpts: "Utter ignorance of Creole customs. . . . Did the author perchance pick his 'young ladies' in a bawdy house? . . . Caricature. . . . Unsullied reputation of our Creole maidens. . . . Nauseating. . . . Filthiness. ... A monstrous slander of the purest womanhood to be found in the U. S. . . . Slimy animalism and mental filth. . . . The author might be a handsome young man for aught we know. The skunk also is a beautiful animal...