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...Chicago, held up by a gunman, Street Car Conductor Thomas Gough said, "Aren't you ashamed of yourself? Don't you know this is Lent?" The man blinked, ran away...
Divorced. James F. Goodman, railway conductor & nudist; by Susie Wise Goodman; in Los Angeles. Grounds: desertion. Smartly attired, she explained to the bench that her "health wedding" to Nudist Goodman on the shores of Lake Elsinore (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933) was a "publicity stunt," that they had previously been wed, fully clothed, in New Mexico...
Last week Works Progress Administration's Music Director Nikolai Sokoloff, onetime conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, reported on what he had done so far with $7,641,814 of Federal funds allocated to his project. To WPA's payroll were transferred 15,639 players, singers, composers, teachers, librarians, copyists, arrangers, tuners, music-binders from non-musical relief jobs. "Hundreds of musicians," reported Director Sokoloff, "came with swollen, calloused fingers, with their lips stiff and chapped from unaccustomed toil in inclement weather." Since December WPA had formed 163 concert orchestras, 51 bands, 15 chamber-music ensembles, 22 choruses...
...Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski is coming to Symphony Hall on Tuesday evening for a single concert. The program includes four Bach transcriptions by Stokowski himself and three excerpts from Wagner's "Die Gotterdammerung". The famous conductor has not been heard here for many years and is now commencing a nation-wide tour...
Chavez, Guest Conductor...