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...lend-leased a symphony conductor to the Commonwealth of Australia this week. He was the Philadelphia Orchestra's chunky, barrel-chested Maestro Eugene Ormandy. The lease was arranged (through OWI) at the request of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, which expects Ormandy to conduct at least 18 symphony concerts in big Australian cities, as many Australian army camps as he can reach in ten weeks of touring...
...Australian Broadcasting Commission tapped Conductor Ormandy because he is: 1) one of the youngest (44) and most energetic of first-rank U.S. maestros; 2) in the twelve years he has spent conducting the Minneapolis and Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, Ormandy has rolled up a radio following comparable to that of such symphonic bigwigs as Serge Koussevitzky and Arturo Toscanini; 3) he has made more phonograph recordings than any other living maestro except Leopold Stokowski...
...knocked all of a heap by his amazing appearance. When I said that 1 wanted to paint him, his wife told me that he refused to sit to anyone." The obdurate nonsitter was Orchestra Conductor Leopold Stokowski. The painter: Taos, N.M.'s Dorothy Brett, artist, writer, former British peeress, sister of the White Rani of Sarawak (British Borneo), bosom friend of the late British novelist, D. H. Lawrence. This week Painter Brett proved that she could paint Conductor Stokowski whether he posed or not. Her exhibition of 27 paintings in the Santa Fe Museum featured some bombers in level...
Most of the eleven Brett Stokowskis are luminous, elongated impressions in which Conductor Stokowski seems to be swooning under water. In Leopold Stokowski Conducting Parsifal there is only a Stokowski-like manifestation, a sickle moon, blank planes of periwinkle blue, and a cometlike effulgence. In Liebestod No. 2 (Love Death), a pale Stokowski wears a rose-colored nimbus which also haloes his cupped, coaxing hands...
...fares were collected. But some passengers insisted on paying. In one day two soldiers-driver and conductor-collected $48. They spent $8 getting drunk, saved $8 for another day, put the rest in war savings. Other soldiers used their take to buy drinks for the strikers...