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...While in Baton Rouge, I had the opportunity to meet some of the author's relatives and found that they also, oddly enough, were divided in their opinions. Some of them would not discuss the book at all. One of them-a doctor- said: "Well-Evans certainly did call a spade a spade. I lived right at the edge of the swamp for a good many years and those conditions really did exist-and I suppose they still...
Manhattan. Second oldest of U. S. summer concert programs (13th season) is the Philharmonic-Symphony series held in Lewisohn Stadium. Notable on the program of eight weeks will be the "Launcelot" symphony of Albert Coates, conductor of the London Symphony, which will be given its premiere under his baton. Composer Coates, whose one-act opera Samuel Pepys took musical Munich by storm last winter (TIME, Jan. 6), will conduct during the fourth, fifth and sixth weeks; Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten of the Portland (Ore.) Symphony Orchestra, the first three and last two. First-nighters last week flocked to hear...
Detroit. While Philadelphia, Hollywood, and Manhattan were turning out for their summer's opening concerts. Detroit's Symphony Orchestra was well into its third week of playing. Under the baton of Victor Kolar, Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch's able associate, the Detroit musicians drew large throngs to the "shell" stadium on famed Belle Isle...
...Francisco. The Summer Symphony Association fortnight ago began its fifth season of ten concerts, not in the open, but in the newly decorated Civic Auditorium. On the dais, baton striking swift designs in the air, was Conductor Bernardino Molinari. Boldly, brilliantly. he led his musicians through the intricacies of the Don Giovanni overture, great Beethoven's great Eroica, Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the prelude to Die Meistersinger...
...Kaiser" of Louisiana-of drunkenness and consorting with criminals. The following month Governor Long was impeached by the House of Representatives on one of 19 charges for having "attempted to suppress the freedom of the press" by threatening to expose the fact that Editor Charles P. Manship of the Baton Rouge State Times had a brother in an insane asylum. But Governor Long, supported by the State Senate, was never tried. Fortnight ago Col. Ewing (onetime Long supporter), incensed when the Governor had forced New Orleans banks to discontinue their municipal loans because the city would not support...