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Local unions determine the number of men to constitute a theatre orchestra according to the size and type of the house. The cost of maintaining even so small an ensemble as 15 men at the average wage of $60 per week is $46,800 a year, exclusive of a conductor. The cost of installing a sound apparatus, according to the latest figures from Radio Corp. of America, is from $13,500 to $15,500 for a house seating 2,500 to 3,500; $9.000 for a theatre with a capacity of 750 to 1,250. Even plus the price...
...Wabash," "My Gal Sal"). Paul Dresser, not Theodore Dreiser, was the friend, not the brother, of Louise. He knew her at a time when he was selling candy on a train which ran through Indiana. Louise, nee Kerlin, came to the station to meet her father who was a conductor on the same train. Conductor Kerlin was killed in a railroad wreck; Louise brought up her younger brothers and sisters. Dresser's songs had had some success and he helped her to a job in vaudeville, let her use his name. Later she sang with Weber & Fields, Raymond Hitchcock...
Came last week to the Pole-peopled town of Oppeln in German Silesia, a traveling company of Polish opera singers. Tickets were scalped and the Opera house packed. Sure of tempestuous Polish applause, the beaming, bowing conductor achieved the overture, plunged into the first...
...soprano, with a reputation won at the Munich and Covent Garden Operas; Antoine Trantoul, French tenor of the Paris Opera and Opera Comique; Alfredo Gandolfi, baritone, favorite interpreter in his native Italy of such roles as Don Giovanni; Tancredo Pasero, basso, of European and South American fame. Josef Rosenstock, conductor, will be imported from Wiesbaden to replace Artur Bodanzky; Ernst Lert, stage director of La Scala at Milan, to replace Samuel Thewman...
...stage a bride is being prepared for her wedding night, her long hair is being combed. On the other one sees the anointing of the groom. Then comes the blessing and departure of the bride, to the lamenting of her parents. Finally the nuptial celebration, described this way by Conductor Stokowski for the League of Composers' program note...