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...symphony that is peculiarly a U. S. product. Jazz, or "Afro-American" symphonists prominent in recent seasons have included: Negro Composer William L. Dawson, who conducts the Tuskegee Choir, and whose Negro Folk Symphony No. 1 was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Conductor Stokowski three years ago; Otto Cesana, onetime staff composer at Manhattan's Radio City, whose two jazz-inspired symphonies have been broadcast by Radio Maestro Erno Rapee; 23-year-old Radio Arranger Morton Gould, whose Swing Symphonette is scheduled for performance later this season...
...Internationale de Ski, believes that U. S. skiing has reached the point where only teachers of proven qualifications should give skiing instruction, as is the custom in Europe. To gain this approval, plus a handsome diploma, potential U. S. Ski-meisters journeyed to Bolton, Vt. to be inspected by Otto Eugen Schniebs, head of the newly formed American Ski School...
...Otto Schniebs is a solid little Bavarian, who has probably done more for the promotion of skiing in the U. S. than any other person. Until last year he was ski coach at Dartmouth College, where he turned out six championship teams in six years. His Dartmouth pupils, all very fond of him, constantly baited him just to hear him reply in his terrific guttural accent. A few years ago a pupil asked him what to do if, on a downhill run, he should suddenly rush upon a spot studded with rocks and trees. Replied astute Otto Schniebs...
...jubilant, efficient, comfortable. They brush teeth, sluice bearded faces in the angled brightness of the Arctic sun, build an igloo settlement complete with electric lights on a 9-foot-thick ice floe. (Four scientists have already spent six months of an anticipated year there.) Camera study: chief conqueror Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt, parka and bosky beard a wreath of icicles. Christmas touch: an antlered reindeer team prancing under the low wing of one of the giant four-motored ANT6 monoplanes...
With Cosi fan tutte ("They all do it") as its opener, the Guild showed that, though it could not do much for the vocal side of opera, it could, theatrically, provide as agreeable a romp as anything that had been sung on a Manhattan stage in years. Viennese Theo Otto's frivolous set and gay 18th-Century costumes-worn by opera singers who for once looked perfectly at home in them-made a completely plausible background for Mozart's tale of deception which proves that all women are fickle...