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Guest Conductor George Szell (pronounced Sell) had really sold himself. When he led the Cleveland Orchestra in December the house was jammed, the audience thundered applause, and the Cleveland critics raved. Last week Cleveland signed Conductor Szell to a three-year contract-on his own terms. His salary: more than $30,000 a year, the largest ever paid to a Cleveland conductor...
Szell's appointment put Cleveland's regular conductor, Erich Leinsdorf, 33, out of a job. Leinsdorf succeeded Artur Rodzinski who bossed the Cleveland for ten years, then graduated to the New York Philharmonic. Last week Rodzinski's three-year contract with the Philharmonic was up. He had improved its sloppy ways, but he was no Toscanini. The Philharmonic re-signed him for one year...
...season. Uncertain as to their own potentialities, they will face a Yale team that has been paraded up and down the sports pages of the East. Perhaps the Crimson can take heart from the 10 to 3 victory of 1919, first year of formal football for Harvard after a three-year lapse during the last...
...book of Djayabhaya, the Hindu king who ruled a vast Javanese empire eight centuries ago, it was written that a white man would come one day to Indonesia. He would stay to rule the islands many years. Then, for the three-year "life of a hen," a yellow man would reign. And after those three years, the people would govern themselves...
...Beerbohm, 73, famed British satirist, resuming BBC broadcasting after a three-year retirement, reminisced about the Victorian theater, which a great many people had frowned on. "The small son of that great actress, Mrs. Kendall," he recalled, "on his first day at . . . school . . . was asked by an elder boy, 'Your mother is an actress, isn't she?' He replied with spirit: 'If you say that again I will knock you down...