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...autograph which looked like Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's, Walter Toscanini, long-nosed son of Conductor Arturo Toscanini, once paid 2,700 lire ($229.50). Shortly Son Walter, a rare-book dealer, learned that the signature was forged, gave Milan police a tip as to who the forger was. They found the rogue, one Tobia Nicotra, in his workshop, busy making autographs of Christopher Columbus, Lorenzo de' Medici, Warren Gamaliel Harding, many another...
...Every Pullman conductor now tries to sell a section for the price of a lower berth plus one-half the price of the unused upper...
...Miss Farrar went to his office casually one day, asked if any one would mind if she took that dirty airless room by the stairs. With Gatti's permission, she fixed the cubbyhole up, lined it with brocade and put a gold plate on the door labeled FARRAR. Only Conductor Arturo Toscanini, her great & good friend, refused to take orders from the spirited young prima donna. Gatti favored the "star" system for its box-office power. Farrar gave Toscanini diamond studs but the conductor maintained that stars exist only in Heaven...
...Cleveland last spring 5,400 people heard a symphony orchestra step out of bounds and give three stirring performances of Tristan und Isolde under Conductor Artur Rodzinski. This autumn the Philadelphia Orchestra Association emulated Cleveland's example with a Tristan which was a forerunner of ten operas to come (TIME...
...Wagner's Die Walkure, cast with such expert singers as Soprano Dorothee Manski. Tenor Paul Althouse, Baritone Friedrich Schorr. Cleveland has five other operas scheduled. Chiefly important is Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Philadelphia is also trying its hand at the Shostakovich opera under Conductor Fritz Reiner...