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...Freshmen, F.C. Packard, assistant professor of Public Speaking. W.S. Howell, instructor in Public Speaking, and D.M. Sullivan '33, President of the University Debating Council. The following Freshmen members of the 1936 Debating Council who are not on the Committee will attend: B.C. McDonald, Melvin Levy, K.M. Smith, J.A. Strauss, E.A. Zraick, L.C. Lewin, J.M. Sheesley, Harold Winkler, H.J. Hunter, H.P. Luz, F.M. Truitt, Leavitt Howard, D.H. Gordon, Jr., B.T. Woodle, W.A. Amesbury, W.S. Zeman, S.M. Bessie, H.V. Poor, A.A. Ballantyne, Jr., D.S. Debard, A.J. Rothman, J.S. Weber, C.B. Feibleman, W.W. Sprague, Hugh Gore, R.M. Drysdale, Jr., G.R. Farnham, Paul Rothkrug...
What the late great John Pierpont Morgan banished from New York 25 years ago, the great golden-haired Maria Jeritza last week brought back?almost. In Europe the role of Salome in Richard Strauss's opera is one of the most celebrated of the many which Jeritza sings. For ten years she has wanted above all things to sing it in New York. But the Metropolitan Opera Company would not permit Jeritza or any other soprano to behave like Salome on its respectable stage, to shed seven veils one after the other in the notorious dance before King Herod...
...amusement. The Metropolitan, hard-pressed for cash, had dropped her from its roster last spring (TIME, May 30). When the Musicians' Symphony came begging her to sing for their jobless cause, she agreed?on one condition, that she should sing Salome. Agreed; and forthwith Jeritza persuaded her friend Composer Strauss to prepare a special concert version for her. to waive his big royalty so that she. along with Baritone Nelson Eddy (Jochanaan) and Conductor Fritz Reiner, could give last week's performance for the jobless. Two hundred of them, organized as the Musicians' Symphony (see col. 1), sat and played...
...ousted board included Banker Charles Hayden, J. & W. Seligman. Partner Frederick Strauss, President Thomas Ignatius Parkinson of Equitable Life. Because Nathan Amster got in on the ground floor of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ry. reorganization in 1917. is now a member of its executive committee, Wall Street was not surprised that the new board included two Rock Island men. Edward Norphlet Brown, chairman of the executive committee (he is also board chairman of stricken St. Louis-San Francisco) and Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck. At its first meeting the new board chose Insurgent Amster as president...
...opening concert last week nothing affected the audience so deeply as Richard Strauss's Death and Transfiguration which Conductor Artur Rodzinski placed on the program as a memorial to Patron Clark's son, William Andrews III, who was killed last spring in an airplane crash. The orchestra, the audience knew, was Clark's second son. He founded it in 1919, trailed it on its tours, in true paternal fashion made no complaint even when it ran into debt last year to the tune...