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Died. Alice Muriel Livingston Williamson, 64, U. S.-born writer; apparently of an overdose of sleeping tablets; in a hotel in Bath, England. Her most lucrative book, The Lightning Conductor, was published in 1905. After her husband and collaborator died in 1920 she, believing his spirit aided her still, continued to sign her work "C. N. & A. M. Williamson...
...glamour, he started making plans. There were two big questions: How much guarantee money could be raised (he wanted $100,000)? How much admission should be charged? Last week, with both questions answered, Mr. Johnson made public his ideas for the Chicago Grand Opera Company. He had a conductor, prices, preliminary plans. There was only one possible hitch: would San Carlo, whose Auditorium contract lasts as long as weekly receipts run above a "certain figure" (not divulged), be ready to leave by Nov. 20 when Mr. Johnson hoped to move in? Mr. Johnson would have his Grand Opera...
From the results of the tryouts held Tuesday night, it is evident that the Pierian Sodality of 1808 will be larger than ever before and that the instrumentation will be full, it was announced yesterday by Malcolm H. Holmes, conductor of the orchestra...
...slow speed, sometimes hectically fast? The violinist, claims round, bushy-haired Vladimir Karapetoff, professor of electrical engineering at Cornell University, would perform better than he does now when all he has to guide him are "the wavy motions of two arms and a recurring expression of rage on a conductor's face." To prove his point Professor Karapetoff has invented a switchboard system of conducting, named it the Electrical Dirigent...
Students who go to Ithaca this week with violins and 'cellos under their arms will be the first to experiment with Professor Karapetoff's invention. At orchestral rehearsals this autumn their conductor will have a desk dotted with buttons to play on. Each music stand will have six lights: a white one for the first beat in a measure, blue for the successive beats; red to mean soft, green to mean loud, red and green together to hold, lights out to stop. Besides these each stand will have two smaller lights to convey individual messages to the players...