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...years ago the Pulitzer Prize Committee gave its $1,800 music award to Ernst Bacon, a young San Franciscan whose First Symphony made him seem most worthy for study and travel in Europe. Columbia's Daniel Gregory Mason, Professor Seth Bingham and Dr. Frank Damrosch, Conductor Walter's brother, made the decision by reading the score. But until last week it seemed as though the $1,800 would be Composer Bacon's only return. His Symphony was never played until Conductor Issai Dobrowen forgot Tchaikovsky long enough to give it place of honor on the week...
...Chesterfield cigarets (TIME, Nov. 27). This week Cadillac Motor Cars and Lucky Strike cigarets overtook Chesterfields. Cadillac started a rich symphonic series for Sunday nights (6 to 7 E. S. T.). Bruno Walter conducted the first concert, Jascha Heifetz fiddled. Conductors to come: Artur Bodanzky, Eugene Ormandy, Walter Damrosch, Fritz Reiner, Sir Henry Wood...
...city's pressmen, publishers and advertisers had a band led by a dancing Indian in a war bonnet (see p. 50 ). Walter Damrosch was with the radio people; little old Charles Winninger led the actors. Samuel ("Roxy") Rothafel's costumed choristers from Radio City cut capers on the asphalt. Paramount had four imitation Marx Brothers and six Mae Wests. Some Army signalers paused in front of the reviewing stand to fly 50 pigeons back to Washington with greetings to the President. The Stock Exchange crowd had a band of Scotch pipers. The Cotton Exchange people had a band...
...Columbia College in Dubuque, Iowa, crying: "We have become mute in the Catholic Church. We have become silent worshippers sitting in our pews almost as lifeless as the wood of those pews. . . ." Bishop Schrembs quoted Pope Pius XI, who issued an encyclical on the subject in 1929, and Walter Damrosch who told him : "You have the most wonderful music in the world . . . and you have robbed your people of the privilege of community singing. . . ." Bishop Schrembs recalled hearing 7,000 railroad workers sing a Credo at Lourdes: "If they could...
Dartmouth College (Hanover, N. H.) Walter Johannes Damrosch . . . . . . . . . Mus.D. Poet Robert Frost (North of Boston New Hampshire). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Litt.D. President Fred Arthur Howland of National Life Insurance Co. . . . . . . . . .LL.D. Sir George Halsey Perley, Canadian Minister without Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D. Board Chairman Walter W. Stewart of Case, Pomeroy & Co. . . . . . . . . . LL.D...