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Major General James Dinkins, Chief of Cavalry of the United Confederate Veterans, has so enjoyed reading "The Spillway," a colyum in the New Orleans Item, that with a fine flourish he commissioned its conductor, William G. Wiegand...
...Musicians' Emergency Aid?for which Conductor Walter Damrosch has planned five stupendous concerts in Madison Square Garden with the world's No. 1 artists as soloists...
...Musicians' Symphony, organized to give 200 capable orchestra men a chance to play again for their living, gave five concerts so successfully last winter that this autumn 20 were announced. The players get $15 a concert or $300 for their winter's work. Conductor Sandor Har-mati. who used to be with the Omaha Symphony, chooses and trains the men. (He claims that many of the players lost their jobs because they had lost their hair. The smoothest pate in the orchestra belongs to Alfred Friese, oldtime tympanist of the New York Philharmonic, whose pupil, young black-mopped Saul Goodman...
...sing for their jobless cause, she agreed?on one condition, that she should sing Salome. Agreed; and forthwith Jeritza persuaded her friend Composer Strauss to prepare a special concert version for her. to waive his big royalty so that she. along with Baritone Nelson Eddy (Jochanaan) and Conductor Fritz Reiner, could give last week's performance for the jobless. Two hundred of them, organized as the Musicians' Symphony (see col. 1), sat and played on the stage last week where the yawning cistern should have been to hold Jochanaan prisoner, where two dark cypress trees should have stood sinisterly against...
Nevada last week celebrated the 68th anniversary of its admission to the Union. No celebrant, however, was lank Governor Frederick Bennett Balzar, onetime railroad conductor, onetime six-shooting sheriff of Mineral County. He was in Washington, D. C. begging the R. F. C. to lend Nevada $2,000,000. Most of the banks of his arid State were at an impasse. When the loan did not come through, Governor Balzar communicated with his Lieutenant Governor Morley Griswold. As a result of that communication, Nevada's 91,000 citizens awoke from their celebration to find' 19 of their...