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Born. To Wanda Toscanini Horowitz, daughter of Conductor Arturo Toscanini; and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz; a daughter, Sonya, Toscanini's third grandchild; in Milan, Italy...
Marriage Revealed. Artur Rodzinski, 40, conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra; and Halina Lilpop Wieniawski; in Warsaw; in July...
Fiddles & horns, conductors & opera stars last week entered the competition between General Motors and Henry Ford. Their start was simultaneous-Sunday 8 p. m. E. S. T. The Detroit Symphony fought for Ford, with Conductor Victor Kolar, yellow-haired Maria Jeritza. 24 choristers. G. M. assembled its own orchestra, hired spectacular Leopold Stokowski to wave his pale hands over it and Tenor Richard Crooks to sing. Soloists will vary in the expensive radio bout. G. M. has a starry list of conductors. Ford will stick to Victor Kolar, Ossip Gabrilowitsch's hard-working associate, who conducted at A Century...
...water solubles are removed. Lengths of wire to be insulated are fed vertically through tanks containing the processed milk. At each immersion a film of milk adheres to the wire and dries, any excess falling back into the tank. Thus, by repeated dippings, the insulation is built around the conductor, the wire is accurately centred, and the wall thickness of the insulation is uniform...
...Conductor Frederick Stock suggested the Pittsfield Festivals and to house them Mrs. Coolidge bought a little Cape Cod church, dismantled it and moved it to South Mountain. She commissioned scores from composers. They would dedicate them to her, give her the manuscripts. In six years her collection and her concerts had such prestige that she decided to build a chamber music hall in Washington, D. C. and to endow the Music Division of the Library of Congress. The hall cost her $94,000, the yearly endowment $25,000.* Washington festivals supplanted the ones in Pittsfield. There was new music...