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Conductor Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra was censured by many last week for ousting nine of his players. FourClarinetist Paul Alemann, Horn-player Otto Henneberg, Violinist Marius Thor, Oboeist Edward Raho?had been with the orchestra from 18 to 26 years. Probable reason for their dismissal: too old, stale...
...Wanamaker International Trophy, engraved with the names of Paavo Nurmi, Charles Hoff, Dr. Otto Peltzer, and Ray Conger was sent last week to be engraved with the American name (Stella Walsh) of Stella Walaciewicz, Polish girl sprinter, because she had set a new world record for women, 6 seconds, in the 50-yard dash at the Millrose Games in Manhattan...
...left in the U. S., the New Masses, in which Jews Without Money appeared serially. He has had two plays produced: Hoboken Blues, Fiesta. Says he: "Both were flops." He has also written 120 Million. He is on the board of the New Playwrights' Theatre supported by Capitalist Otto H. Kahn. Last February the New Playwrights gave a dinner, invited Maecenas Kahn, made many speeches attacking capitalism, prophesying the triumph of the workers. Banker Kahn, bland, smiling, replied in the best speech of the evening. Intimated he: I give my money gladly to artistic experiments, am willing to take...
...symbol for an orthodox snugness within which the conventional wife tries to inclose her imaginative, vaulting husband. But Playwright Burnet's dramatic sense is by no means as lucid as his psychology, and his taste is woeful. The theme is obscured in a plot stuffed with nonessentials. Otto Kruger acts the poet valiantly despite dialog which makes him speak like a moonstruck sixth-former...
...must depend for success on the chance that he could kindle in his discerners some intuitive appreciation of what to them would be new, wholly foreign beauties. Socially he was well sponsored, by the China Institute in America, more particularly by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Charles R. Crane, John Dewey, Otto Hermann Kahn. Esthetically he represented a tradition which countless Emperors had applauded. But he had his worries...