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Last week. Some 2,000 New Yorkers went to Carnegie Hall to hear the 90 musicians play. They were not concerned with the players' financial struggle. And to them it was irrelevant that the conductor they were about to watch was putting to the hazard a reputation which had splendidly justified his poor immigrant Russian parents, years ago, in letting him be adopted by a New Haven spinster, Miss Charlotte Ingersoll, so that he could have training. What the Carnegie Hall crowd wanted to find out was whether there could be such a thing as a real bargain...
Karl Krueger, late of the Seattle Symphony, and Nikolai Sokoloff (see above) have two qualities in common. They both know how to whip a ragged orchestra into shape, how to gamble on their caché. Conductor Krueger last week conducted the inaugural concert of the Kansas City Philharmonic, a pay-as-it-goes enterprise boosted by the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. Kansas City's last symphonic venture (two concerts by the Kansas City Musicians Association) was sponsored by Conrad Henry Mann shortly before he was indicted under the Federal lottery law. Before that the Chamber's favorite...
Philip James, a pudgy New Jersey composer and radio conductor, led the New York Orchestra through his Station WGZBX, a satire more workmanlike than inspired which won him a $5,000 prize from National Broadcasting Co. (TIME, May 16, 1932). Horns and drums sputtered out static. Strings flurried hectically to suggest the buzz of talk. A subtitle ''Slumber Hour" was the excuse for a slow movement soggy with sentiment...
Fervent converts to this "way of life" are Jim Goodman and Susie Wise. He has been a practicing nudist for four months, she for three. Nothing makes Jim, a California railway conductor, feel better than to go to a nudist colony for weekends, strip off his uniform and "romp around...
...Boston's South Station, flaxen-haired Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall boarded a Pullman for Washington, gave the conductor a lower-berth ticket. Said he: "The President's daughter can't ride in an ordinary lower berth. We have engaged the drawing room for you." Said she: 'I've $4.53 here in my purse and that's all. If you want to give me a drawing room for that I'm perfectly satisfied." She slept in the lower berth...