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Starting their winter season, the glee club will journey to St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, tonight to give a program of mixed songs. G. Wallace Woodworth '24, instructor in Music and conductor of the Glee Club, and Edward B. Lee, Jr. '34, president of the Glee Club, also announce an extensive list of singing engagements during the winter and spring which will be ended by a trip to New York, Washington, Baltimore, and Pittsburgh...
...settlement amounted to $3,000,000 and Walska went to Havana to sing. Harold McCormick heard her there, appreciated her if the Cubans did not, invited her to sing with the Chicago Grand Opera which he was then backing. Her debut was to be in Zaza but at rehearsal Conductor Giuseppe Gino Marinuzzi threw down his baton, threatened to quit the company. McCormick stood up for Walska, demanded that she should be allowed to sing. But in the excitement Walska disappeared. Not once did she ever sing with the Chicago Opera...
...Plus vite, Maestro, plus vite! Je ne suis pas malade." Nine-year-old Ruth Slenczynski was rehearsing with the Symphony in San Francisco, her home city, and the tempo taken by Conductor Bernardino Molinari, 54, displeased her. Molinari kept his temper at rehearsal but last week's performance was too much for him. The Concerto, Beethoven's First, had ended and he had left the stage. But not little Ruth Slenczynski. She stayed firmly planted on her piano stool, tossing off encore after encore even after Richard M. Tobin came on stage to present her with a string...
...Moran & Mack team; when he was pinned under the overturned automobile in which he was riding with his wife, daughter, Partner Moran, and Mack Sennett, all of whom were slightly hurt; near Mesa, Ariz. Born in Kansas, he rose from newsboy to professional base-bailer, streetcar conductor, stage electrician. When comedians remembered and used his quips, he decided to use them himself, toured in vaudeville with a partner named Moran who died of pneumonia. He ran a trunk factory in Cleveland, returned to the stage with Comedian George Searcy who called himself Moran and was Mack's "feeder...
...orchestra and Conductor Artur Bodanzky made the evening. Instead of the usual 80 players there were 104 in the pit. No music is more difficult. The strings in places are divided into 20 parts. 'Cellos must behave like violins. The tympanist does sleight of hand. Dis sonances pile on dissonances, savagely conflict and swirl away into new combinations. Stage honors went not to any performer but to Donald M. Oenslager, who made a highly effective setting out of castle walls, a great flight of steps and two cypress trees standing against an Oriental...