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...Manhattan definite announcement confirmed recent rumor: Conductor Willem Mengelberg will not return next season to the New York Philharmonic-Symphony (TIME, Jan. 27). In London last week it became known that he had been engaged to conduct the London Symphony in 60 concerts, an ambitious orchestral season for Britishers, inspired by the recent visits of the Berlin and Vienna orchestras under Wilhelm Furtwangler, another onetime New York Philharmonic conductor...
...Oliver Heaviside and A. E. Kennelly formulated in 1902 their "radio roof" theory: that Earth is surrounded by a sac of ionized ether which acts as a reflector (or conductor) of radio signals. During daytime the sun's light pushes this layer closer to Earth, lessens efficiency of reception. At night the layer rises, reception reaches maximum efficiency...
...their seats for the opening of London's opera and social season. At 7 p. m. those fortunate enough to have gained admission were gawking excitedly at the entrance of three princesses into the Royal Box-Princess Mary and her cousins Princess Helena Victoria and Princess Marie Louise.* Conductor Bruno Walter arose and swept together the first vigorous strains of the Meistersinger overture. Then were displayed the tight-toned "Walther" of Tenor Rudolf Laubenthal; the homely, bourgeois "Sachs" of Baritone Friedrich Schoor; the heavy, smoothly sung "Eva" of Lotte Lehmann, important soprano of the Vienna Staatsoper. London...
Prokofiev's Classical Symphony in D Major and the Scherzo and March from his opera The Love for Three Oranges (Victor, 2 records, $2 each)-Prokofiev's fast-stepping rhythms played with exhilarating, almost whirlwind effect by Conductor Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony...
...Rudolf Friml Album which includes music from You're in Love, High Jinks, Rose Marie, Katinka, The Vagabond King, The Firefly (Victor, $7.50) - Compiled in the radio-hour manner by Conductor Nathaniel Shilkret; presented by the Victor Salon Orchestra and a capable company which includes the composer as pianist...