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...blue is Sweden's royal color and Princess Ingrid is passionately addicted to larkspur, a plane piled high with larkspur flew over from London to decorate the wedding church, Stockholm's 13th Century Storkyrka. Leading a concert of Danish and Swedish songs before all the wedding guests, Conductor Sven Lizell of the Stockholm Choral Society dropped dead of heart failure...
SalutationConverse (Composed for the Pops--First Per.) "An Evening with Bilse," Humorous Potpourri Ernst Scherz Pizzicato Polka Strauss *Overture, "William Tell" Rossini *Overture to "Mignon" Thomas (Guest cond.--Timothee Adamowski) "Sylvan Suite," Second Movement Strube (Guest conductor--Gustav Strube) *"Samson and Delilah," Fantasia Saint-Saens (Guest conductor--Clement Lenom) "Five Decades" (Hans Wiener Dancers with Orchestra) First Decade, 1885-1895, The immortal Strauss waltzes sweep around the world. *Waltzes from "Thousand and One Nights" Johann Strauss Second Decade, 1895-1905. Ragtime makes its bid for popularity Cakewalk, "At a Georgia Camp Meeting" Lee Terny Third Decade, 1905-1915. Importation...
Divorced. Maurice Wertheim, Manhattan banker, Theatre Guild cofounder, new owner of The Nation (TIME, May 6), divorced husband of Alma Morgenthau Wiener (sister of the Secretary of the Treasury); by Mrs. Ruth White Warfield Wertheim; in Reno. Same day she married Alexander Smallens, Russian-born orchestra conductor...
George Sawyer Dunham, Conductor...
...months ago the city government voted $10,000 for five popular-priced concerts, picked as conductor reliable old Alfred Hertz, who was ousted from his Symphony job five years ago when Dobrowen was engaged. Last week San Franciscans again rose to the occasion, voted $3,000-to-47,000 for a symphony subsidy expected to yield $35,000 a year. To be raised by a tax of ½% per $100 of assessed property, the subsidy will be administered by the City Art Commission and the Musical Association. The Association will provide $35,000 more to guarantee at least...