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Like the brief exciting taps with which a conductor, baton against score-stand, commands attention for solemn music, certain items rat-tatted in the press last week as follows...
Died. Mrs. Charles W. Morse, divorced wife of Pullman Conductor Charles F. Dodge, for 25 years the extraordinarily loyal wife of Charles W. Morse, 70, paralyzed financier, pardoned felon...
...London, Eugene Goossens, British conductor of the Rochester (N. Y.) Symphony, declared recently: "I have no hesitation in saying that the Philadelphia Orchestra is the finest orchestra in the world today. . . . Stokowski stands supreme...
Next spring conductor Leopold Stokowski and his Philadelphia Symphony will be heard in 18 European concerts, beginning at Paris, ending at London. "Everyone in Europe is dying to hear our Symphony," declared Philadelphia concert manager Arthur Judson last week...
...multiplied speed of Western Union's new cable, 2,500 letters a minute, is to result from an improvement achieved in the cable itself after long experimenting to gain speed by improving sending and receiving instruments. Around the copper conductor of the 3,800-mile strand is wound a continuous strip of "permalloy" ribbon, an alloy of iron and nickel which conducts current very freely, permitting signals to be sent close together...