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...Conductor Edward English said that he found Porter J. E. Smith drunkenly annoying a woman passenger in her berth. When the conductor interfered, Porter Smith knocked him down with a brake club. Passengers and trainmen joined in the fight which ranged up and down through three Pullmans and finally out to a private car on the end of the train. Armed with a ventilator stick and an emergency fire axe, the Negro felled five passengers and three of the crew as the train rushed through the night. At Thendara, 50 mi. north of Utica, N. Y., State troopers...
Taken off the train, charged with assault, Porter Smith protested that he had been arranging baggage for the woman, that Conductor English had started the fight. New York Central officials were grieved to announce that Porter Smith had become "mentally unbalanced...
Basle. A Mozart Festival, May 9-17, under Conductor Felix Weingartner...
...Conductor Frederick Stock of the Chicago Symphony last year inaugurated a contest which last month brought attention to Joseph Rosenstein, 19-year-old violinist. Because of the skill with which he played three concertos (one of them by Conductor Stock), young Rosenstein, short, sallow son of an Austrian-Jewish tailor, was unanimously judged most worthy of a solo engagement with the Chicago orchestra. Newshawks went after his "story," found that he had been running errands for the Chicago Daily News, forthwith played him up as a messenger boy. That troubled Joseph Rosenstein, because he felt it made him look like...
...well started on the road to recognition he has a well-fitting cutaway as well as a dress suit. The cutaway he wore last week at an Orchestra Hall recital, for which boxes were taken by such important patrons as Charles Henry Swift, Rufus Cutler Dawes, Harold Fowler McCormick, Conductor Stock. Pianist Josef Hofmann was playing two blocks away but a good-sized audience came to hear Rosenstein, heartily applauded his poise throughout a difficult program, his accurate speed in Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata, his purity of tone enhanced by a $20,000 Stradivarius lent...