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...itself in a first-class rumpus. Instigator was a little textile salesman named Jacob Abelson who commutes daily over the eleven miles from Jamaica to Manhattan. When the agent refused to sell him a ticket at the lowered rates, angry little Jacob Abelson got aboard without one, told the conductor who requested 34?. "According to the new ruling the fare should be. 23? But I'm willing to pay you 25?. Do you want it?" Flabbergasted, the conductor argued weakly, gave in as the other passengers began cheering Commuter Abelson. Taking his name and address, the red-faced trainman...
With his sound musical background and his ready Irish charm Herbert was bound to make himself known. Little time passed before Conductor Anton Seidl made him his assistant for the Brighton Beach concerts. For four years thereafter Herbert led the famed Pat Gilmore band, for six the Pittsburgh Symphony. On Broadway he became a legendary figure. His capacity for work was equaled by his Gargantuan appetite for food and drink...
...performers in the pit were no better than average. The Orpheus was Contralto Anna Kaskas from Bridgeport, Conn.; the Amor, Maxine Stellman from Brattleboro, Vt.; the Eurydice, plump Jeanne Pengelly, a native of Toronto, whose part was danced by pretty, half-clad Daphne Vane. Conductor Richard Hageman, rejoining the Metropolitan after an absence of 14 years, did his best by the stately, sculptured score. But only those, who were smart enough to close their eyes could reap its full benefit...
...past seven years Conductor Arturo Toscanini, who dislikes mechanical music, has been steadfast in his refusal to make phonograph records. To him, his own performances always seemed short of perfection, hence unworthy of being perpetuated. During his last few months with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony (TIME, May 11 et ante), RCA Victor doubled its efforts to persuade him to change his mind, pleaded that he owed it to the public and posterity. The Maestro's "no" was unyielding until a friend suggested that he would be doing a real service to the composer he might interpret, that...
Inspired by its success with the Wagner Ring cycle last year (TIME, Nov. 4), the San Francisco Opera Association made plans months ago to repeat it next season, again engaged Soprano Kirsten Flagstad and Tenor Lauritz Melchior, tried to get Conductor Artur Bodanzky, who had performed wonders with its ragged run-down orchestra. Last week from Vienna, Conductor Bodanzky cabled his refusal on the grounds that the San Francisco orchestra pit was too small for Wagner, that he could not do without the extra musicians whom he would have to take from Manhattan. San Francisco thereupon appointed Conductor Fritz Reiner...