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...would build up the orchestra's patronage against the season of 1933-34 when Copperheir William Andrews Clark Jr. has announced that he will no longer stand its deficits. Last week Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic drive rebounded to Los Angeles' benefit. As soon as Conductor Otto Klemperer was kicked out of the Berlin State Opera where his contract had four more years to run, Los Angeles quickly signed...
...great many private bankers this forced choice caused little or no worry. Kuhn, Loeb & Co.-according to the testimony of Partner Otto Kahn at a hearing a year and a half ago-are primarily wholesalers of securities. It requires no great stretch of the imagination to picture Kuhn. Loeb's senior partner, Felix Warburg, presiding at a meeting at which the firm decides without any heartburnings to give up its banking business. A like amount of imagination would serve for Goldman. Sachs. And it requires no imagination whatever to picture Dillon. Read and Lehman Brothers renouncing the banking business...
...entire Wagner family. . . ." The "lamentable events" Frau Wagner and all the world knew referred to the Nazi attacks which Chancellor Adolf Hitler has condoned, if not instigated, against Jewish musicians in Germany. Two months ago when Bruno Walter was forbidden to conduct in Leipzig and Berlin, when Conductor Otto Klemperer was pommeled by a band of Nazi youths and Soprano Frida Leider had her Bayreuth invitation recalled, Toscanini joined ten other eminent musicians in cabling a protest to Hitler (TIME, April 10). The protest was ignored but the musicians who signed it had their phonograph records and radio broadcasts banned...
...many prominent people of his day that it would be easier to list those he did not know than those he did. Member of no literary school, he was on friendly terms with such irreconcilables as the Sitwells, H. G. Wells, Shaw, Noel Coward, "Max" Beaverbrook, T. S. Eliot, Otto Kahn, Winston Churchill, Andre Gide, John Galsworthy, Lord Birkenhead, George Moore. He liked most people. Of an evening when Shaw was present he notes: "Shaw talked practically the whole time, which is the same thing as saying that he talked a damn sight too much...
...voyaged amiably on the Zuyder Zee, the Baltic and numerous friendly canals and English estuaries. During the War Bennett lent the Velsa to the Admiralty, and it was afterwards sold, but he rarely turned down an invitation to go cruising. In 1927 he shipped as a guest of Otto Kahn on a Mediterranean yachting trip. Though he dressed the part of yachtsman, he never forgot his main business: in spite of bridge and cocktail-parties and sightseeing, he continued to log; his 1,000 words...