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...Campaigner John McKeown, advised by his brother Mitchell McKeown, managing director of Chicago's Unemployment Fund, was hard at work for the Friends last week. At a big organization dinner at the Drake Hotel, Frederick Stock, who played the viola in the Chicago Symphony before he became its conductor, gravely tucked his instrument under his chin, played publicly for the first time in 20 years. Total of the Friends of Music's fund up to this week (unofficial...
Created a Knight of the Legion of Honor in Paris was Camille Robert, obscure theatre orchestra conductor, author of the famed French War song La Madelon...
...Seattle, two passengers on a moving trolley quietly & quickly took out electric light bulbs, unscrewed brass fixtures, doorknobs, seat handgrips. Another passenger yelled to the conductor: "They're taking your trolley to pieces." The trolley stopped. The filchers fled...
...disclosed but the Boston Symphony badly needs whatever it can get. Boston's band has never been offered a sizeable radio contract before. To help meet this season's deficit, which without N. B. C.'s help would have run to some $93,000, Conductor Sergei Koussevitsky and his non-union orchestra (only one in the U. S.) lately offered to turn back $46,000 from their salaries...
...workers and scrubwomen. But the performers in his $20,000,000 opera house regarded him as a financial wizard who could do no wrong. The News found that the once high-priced Rosa Raisa had lost all that she had, was in straitened circumstances along with such investors as Conductor Giorgio Polacco & wife (Soprano Edith Mason), Conductors Emil Cooper. Egon Pollak. Roberto Moranzoni, Baritone Cesare Formichi, Stage Manager Otto Erhardt...