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Cincinnati's Festival is of outstanding importance for several reasons: It is one of the oldest of U. S. festivals, started in 1873 by Conductor Theodore Thomas. It is a colossal affair, involving many amateur singers (610 grownups this year, 703 school children), besides the Cincinnati Symphony and imported soloists. The programs are meticulously prepared and the performances attended by social pomp corresponding to that which Manhattan and Chicago bestow on their opera. Cincinnati newspapers devote columns to describing the costumes of local dowagers and debutantes...
...from England made promising U. S. debuts-Tenor Walter Widdop and Contralto Muriel Brunkskill. Lily Pons, the Metropolitan's new French find, walked away with a program on which she sang three florid coloratura airs. But the hero for the duration of the five day Festival was Conductor Eugene Goossens. Conductor Goossens, for seven years leader of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, was directing his first Cincinnati Festival, succeeding Chicago's Frederick Stock who no longer has the strength for a double...
...Conductor Goossens the Festival was an important milestone, one which few conductors could put behind them at 38. Goossens is a Britisher, son of a conductor and an opera singer, brother of an oboist and two harpists. At ten he left England to study in Bruges, learned to play the piano well, the violin better. Then he returned to England, began playing in Sir Henry Wood's Queen's Hall Orchestra which, when he was 18, played several of his compositions, himself conducting...
Goossens' first job as a conductor was under Sir Thomas Beecham (opera, pills) after which he led the Diaghilev ballet for five years. In 1923 he went to Rochester where he was helped by his strong, handsome appearance. In Rochester last year he found a second wife for himself, pretty, 21-year-old Janet ("Jansy") Lewis, a student at the Eastman School of Music. (His engagement to his good friend, Mrs. Christian Holmes of Fleischmann's Yeast wealth, had previously been rumored and denied.) Goossens' hobbies are Shakespeare and shark fishing. His best known composition: the opera...
Virtuous Husbands (Universal). "Remember that your wife is a shrinking violet," wrote Pansy Pomeroy, conductor of a colyum of advice to the lovelorn, in one of the countless letters of guidance which she left her son, Elliott Nugent. So in a hotel in Niagara Falls, while his wife is waiting for him in bed, Nugent sleeps on a sofa in the parlor. This honeymoon scene was the one which the audience, like the bride, had been looking forward to, but it is staged so much in the spirit of good clean Will-Haysian fun that it loses even the little...