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...Filipinos of a flight led by Captain Jesus Vallamor. Over Batangas, near Manila, Villamor's flight ran into two flights (27 each) of Japanese bombers. The Filipinos attacked, shot down two and broke up the Japanese formations. Manila reports indicated that Villamor and Lieutenant Caesar Basa were cited for bravery...
...Spring (played in Walt Disney's Fantasia) hardly seemed a likely rearranger for the national anthem. But the Stravinskian Star-Spangled Banner, despite its slight Russian accent, is a genuinely spacious and stirring piece. It should be welcomed by conductors who, under the ukase of Boss James Caesar Petrillo of the musicians' union, now play it at every symphony and opera performance. Stravinsky and his publisher (Mercury Music Corp.) have waived performance fees...
...James Caesar Petrillo, tough little A.F. of L. boss of the big American Federation of Musicians, last week put a hammer lock on two famed fiddlers and a famed orchestra. Boss Petrillo forbade two of the Boston Symphony's scheduled soloists-Fiddlers Efrem Zimbalist and Joseph Szigeti-to fill their dates (two each) this season. Petrillo could call the fiddlers' tune because they had joined his A.F. of M. after resigning from the American Guild of Musical Artists (the boiled-shirt union which Petrillo has been trying to bust...
Violinist Zimbalist said he was disappointed. But he and Szigeti must have known what they were in for when they joined Petrillo's union, for Little Caesar Petrillo has long vowed to bring the Boston Symphony to heel. It is now the only big non-union orchestra in the U.S. Following the policy of its late benefactor Colonel Henry Lee Higginson, the Symphony pays union-scale wages and pensions, but believes that union limitations on rehearsals, hirings and firings would do it artistic harm...
...Boers; the Roman electoral body to the cosmopolitan demagogy of the United States; Rome itself to London, Paris, New York, Berlin, Milan; and Lucullus to Napoleon. He talks about capitalism, parliamentarism, imperialism, feminism . . . clubs, meetings, high life. . . . Cato is a landlord; M. Aemilius Scaurus a self-made man; Caesar a socialist leader, a Tammany boss...