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...orchestra, which suffers in comparison with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has given many a noteworthy concert, but for years it was a bone of contention between wealthy Jews who liked and supported hulking Conductor Alfred Hertz, and the Bohemian Club element who have never quite forgiven Hertz for displacing their convivial clubmember, Henry Hadley...
...Conductor Hertz was ousted two years ago. Russian Issai Dobrowen and British Basil Cameron imported. But the orchestra has continued to drift nearer & nearer the rocks through lack of general support...
Last week the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company also suspended performances for a year, but its reason was not quite Chicago's. Advance sales were bad. but it was also announced that Conductor Leopold Stokowski wanted an off-year to perfect a new form of "drama with music" for 1933-34. The Curtis-Bok fortune is far, far from collapse but Mrs. Bok has the expensive Curtis Institute on her hands. If in the next few months another patron for Philadelphia's opera appears, her friends suspect that she will not be sorry...
...weeks Alfredo Salmaggi, showman-maestro, has been running an Open Air Opera Company in Soldier Field; last week he put on a well- publicized Carmen, with tame bulls from the stockyards. One winter possibility is twelve weeks of opera, to be performed by a semi-co-operative troupe under Conductor Isaac Van Grove of the Cincinnati Zoo Opera, formerly assistant conductor of Chicago's Civic Opera. This would be guaranteed by $200,000 of Chicago money, housed in the old, popular Auditorium Theatre of the late Civic Opera. Another possibility is a ten-week season of a company...
...Croker. Propaganda was another part. He admits that Hearst and the yellow press were a great help in spreading Spanish atrocity stories, rousing U. S. sympathies for the revolting Cubans. The Junta's agents had to be organized but kept under cover: one of their men was made Pullman conductor on the Manhattan-Tampa run. As the popularity of the Cuban cause increased, Rubens was pestered with volunteers. He let the late Author Stephen Crane make a trip on the filibustering Commodore, which was wrecked. "When I met Crane again. . . . I asked him how one particularly self-important man behaved...