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...telephone company. Last winter Western Union upped a retired British rear admiral named Charles Penrose Rushton Coode to vice president in charge of European operations. Last week not Postal Telegraph but a sister subsidiary in its International Telephone & Telegraph System made a retiring U. S. admiral its active head. Mackay Radio & Telegraph an nounced that on July 1 Rear Admiral Luke McNamee will become president, succeeding pink-cheeked Clarence Hungerford Mackay who will assume the chairmanship. Now 63 and head of the Naval War College at Newport, R. I.. Admiral McNamee is regarded as the handsomest admiral...
...likely givers that $500,000 would have to be raised to assure the Orchestra's existence for the next three seasons. Mr. Flagler's guests knew the Philharmonic's proud reputation, knew that it had never before begged publicly for money. A telegram from Clarence Hungerford Mackay expressed more than it said. He simply regretted that he could not be present but everyone knew that in his prosperous days he had quietly made up many a deficit, that he was too proud to go on acting as the Philharmonic's mouthpiece when he could no longer...
...year-old Italian is responsible. New Yorkers knew him before as an opera conductor but in 1915 he tiffed with Giulio Gatti-Casazza, raged out of the Metropolitan and returned to Milan to give all his time to the Scala. No one thought he would accept when Clarence Mackay asked him to conduct the Philharmonic in 1926. And when he cabled that he would come, great was the trepidation among the musicians. He was a musical god, they had heard, a despot, a devil. He used no score even at rehearsal but he could detect the tiniest flaws. Once...
...Damrosch Or- chestra. (His father made the Flakier fortune on Standard Oil. Florida railroads.) The Philharmonic's operating expenses will amount to $686,000 this season. Salaries for 108 musicians and three conductors amount to $438,861. Receipts are estimated at $545.826. Neither Mr. Mackay nor Mr. Flagler felt able to help finance the orchestra this season. Bank loans made it possible. The Leipzig Gcivamlhaits Orchestra is older. *When Toscanini sailed last spring for Europe a little pile of broken spectacles was found in the back of his closet...
Little America, Antarctica, March 27 (Via MacKay Radio to the United Press)--Alone in the windswept fastnesses of the South Polar regions, Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd prepared today to spend the next six or seven months in a tiny hut 123 miles south of Little America...