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...inept performance. In Carmen Manager Longone interpolated a floor show by the popular dance team, Veloz & Yolanda. His innovation had its box-office effect but purists shuddered at his taste, as they did again when he permitted a Buick sedan to be exhibited in the opera house foyer. When Conductor Gennaro Papi resigned (TIME, Dec. 2), more than Longone's taste was questioned. Longone claimed that Papi was either unable or unwilling to conduct La Fiamma, that he was prejudiced against U. S. singers. Papi retaliated with the blazing charge that Longone permitted singers of indifferent merit...
...orchestra but knew they stood little chance of being admitted to an established symphony organization. To start a band of their own they collected $1,000 from Samuel Insull, an equal amount from the late Julius Rosenwald, persuaded Richard Czerwonky of Bush Conservatory to be their first conductor...
...were hired to blow the difficult wind instruments at first but now all 80 players are women and for six years the conductor has been graceful, blonde Ebba Sundstrom, who is determined that the orchestra shall sound professional. Conductor Sundstrom has worked at music since she was a child on a farm in Lindsborg, Kans. At 7 she played the violin, at 13 she organized a trio, played in hotels and theatres. She was organist and choir director at Grace Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, when she met a young Swedish dentist as blonde as herself, became Mrs. Victor Nylander...
Tense black-haired Antonio Brico, conductor of the New York Women's Symphony, makes music sound like all work and no play. Conductor Sundstrom's touch is lighter but her discipline is strong. Her orchestra was considered capable enough to play at the opening of the Ford Gardens at the Century of Progress ir. 1934. It played last summer at the Grant Park concerts, proved more popular than the solid old Chicago Symphony. Conductor Sundstrom, practical about her job, says: "Women's orchestras must not merely play well; they must even strive to play better than other...
During intermission at a Vienna Philharmonic concert old ex-Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria shuffled backstage to congratulate Conductor Arturo Toscanini, received word that the maestro was relaxing. Thinking that there had been some mistake, Ferdinand announced himself again, this time more distinctly. By messenger Toscanini replied: "Not even for a King can I break my rule of seeing nobody during a concert." To the vast delight of its owner, its maker and its chauffeur, an old Crane Simplex automobile purred smoothly over its 278,000th mile in Manhattan." The good old car is still going strong." bubbled Owner Herbert Livingston...