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...motor useless, had stopped railway passenger service to Newton, her next stop. She borrowed a section handcar, started off over the rails. Overtaken by a freight train, she and her party hustled the handcar off the tracks clambered into the caboose, huddled around a small wood-stove with the conductor and brakeman until they trundled into Newton...
...Dinner of the Bohemians of Chicago (musicians' club) to Frederick Stock on his 25th anniversary as conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra...
...scene was dignified Carnegie Hall, the stage set like a hotel lobby with potted palms, upholstered lounges. Scattered and chatting about were some 20 of the world's greatest musicians. Conductor Walter Damrosch snoozed comfortably in an armchair until Pianist Bauer wakened him to supervise the Bach relay. Thus began an exciting evening of which the climax was the introduction of the so-called Gooschepeix Foolyphone,* an ominous engine-like instrument with coils, levers and pipes. Painstakingly oiled by celebrities in overalls, the contraption exploded after a few dismal howlings and was hung with an "Out of Order" sign...
...made in Italy by Italian singers, the Scala Chorus and the Milan Symphony under Conductor Lorenzo Molajoli...
BIZET'S L'ARLESIENNE, excerpts by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra (Victor, $6.50)-The warm, instantly appealing music made for Daudet's play. Conductor Stokowski plays it brilliantly. Operagoers will recognize bits borrowed to make the Carmen ballet...