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...Grace Roosevelt, daughter of Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. of Porto Rico. Washington gossips again overemphasized the significance of that first dance. More than 200 of Washington's nicest boys and girls began rigadooning in the East Room promptly at 10 p. m. Piece de resistance of Orchestra Conductor Meyer Davis' repertoire was "Moonlight on the Santa Clara," which he composed himself and dedicated to Allan Hoover to signalize the occasion. Revelry ceased at 1 a. m. ¶ Another Hoover appointee to the Geneva disarmament conference was Norman H. Davis, onetime Undersecretary of State. His appointment fills the delegation...
...arrangement with National Broadcasting Co. reported to bring $250,000 for 25 broadcast operas. To the U. S. radio audience, it was briefly exciting ? speeches by NBC's President Merlin Hall Aylesworth and Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath of the Metropolitan, sounds of the orchestra tuning up under Conductor Karl Riedel, echoes of an audience which included many pleased youngsters. Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel was the opera, first whole performance to be broadcast from the Metropolitan. Composer Deems Taylor, official narrator, sat in a little glass booth in one of the grand tier boxes, describing music...
Soon after the onset of Hansel und Gretel came telegrams of praise. Director Giulio Gatti-Casazza, pleased as Punch, had been popping to & from the backstage office of Press Agent William J. ("Billy") Guard, where a receiving set had been installed. Chairman Cravath was impressed. "A miracle! . . ." said Radio Conductor Walter Johannes Damrosch. The engineers who had succeeded in making the whole country (and several further parts of the world) an opera house, said that the old part-wooden Met was much easier to work with than Chicago's handsome new opera house, whose concrete tends to give off bass...
...every sizable U. S. city has been attempting to prove as rapidly as possible.* But Kansas City's method of proof was different from most. Instead of selling expensive subscriptions and then giving a concert, it gave the concert first. The Chamber of Commerce and civic organizations persuaded Conductor Arnold Volpe, once a Kansas Cityzen himself, to recruit an orchestra of 88 musicians. Then it announced two concerts for last week, average price 25? so that no music lover would have to stay home on account of Depression. Few did. Four thousand of them made their way to Convention...
...uncle, Sevitzky came to the U. S., joined the Philadelphia Orchestra. For the past six years he has conducted his own Philadelphia Chamber String Simfonietta, an organization composed of 18 Philadelphia Orchestra members which goes on tour playing rarely heard music written for strings. In the U. S. Conductor Sevitzky has still to make a big name for himself. (For financial reasons this autumn he had to resort to conducting the orchestra in Boston's Metropolitan cinema theatre.) But four great orchestras in Europe think well enough of him to invite him to conduct there this winter: the Orchestra...