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...soloist and conductor changed places after the intermission for the performance of the Piano Concerto in G. major (K, 453), which Goldovsky performed with delicacy and restraint, although it seemed to me that the orchestra at times tended to drown out the soloist, and the horn due muffed each of their sole entrances...
Democracy has been kind to Joseph Patrick Ryan. He quit school at 12, worked as stock boy, clerk, streetcar conductor, as a longshoreman at $18 for a six-day week. Now, at 59, as president of the A. F. of L. International Longshoremen's Association, he makes $20,000 a year...
...Canada, broke. A conductor kicked him off a train at a junction called Swastika, in northern Ontario. A down-&-out Chinese was sitting there, and when Oakes said he was a gold prospector the Chinese said that if gold was all he wanted there was plenty of it all around the place. Oakes found it, staked out Lake Shore Mine. It became the second-richest gold mine in the world: by 1927 it had paid Oakes $28 million in dividends, and thereafter it yielded him approximately $3 million a year...
...Considine, 36, a veteran of twelve years of sportswriting, has the reputation of being able to work anywhere. One of his editors once said: "During the World Series, we watched Bob bat out a swell column ... in exactly nine minutes, with his typewriter on a baggage wagon and the conductor yelling 'All aboard.' " Now he was too absorbed to take notes...
This was no invalid's gesture-it was one of the finest performances of Tristan und Isolde in recent years. The conductor was Sir Thomas Beecham, and the cast a group of top-flight singers, some from Manhattan's Metropolitan. Isolde spent her first act reclining on a shipboard divan, with the necessary business carried out by her maid Brangäne. The second-act love scene had perhaps the fittest staging in history: Tristan and Isolde sang on a couch. In the last act, Isolde was carried on stage by Tristan's old retainer Kurwenal...