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...clenched his baton a little tighter and with the simplest of gestures led the men on to do what he had taught them at rehearsal. But the music was so articulate, the Mozart so sparkling, the Rhenish Symphony of Schumann so gravely romantic, that in intermission the lobby was abuzz with the talk of this coming young conductor. The program went on with Debussy's La Mer, the Intermezzo from Granados' Goyescas, three dances from De Falla's Three-Cornered Hat. At the end the audience was on its feet cheering. The players stamped their feet, beat...
...beautiful talker. So great was his renown and his care for it that when he entertained at dinner he would eat beforehand so that his tongue could wag undisturbed. His entrances were timed strategically: just as a gathering was preparing to break up Proust would enter, set the room abuzz with his rapid-fire monolog: "Do you know whether the Due de? stayed on in the boudoir with Mme Z? Could you explain the kiss he gave her, in the very middle of the ball?" "Overwhelmingly" gentle in voice, elaborately formal in manner, Proust smiled continually, gazed fondly at society...
Between acts the lobby was abuzz with Ljungberg talk. According to one story, the day she arrived from Europe she was informed at the opera house that her brother had called. Soprano Ljungberg, one of eight children, knew of no brother in the U. S. so she dismissed the subject. A few days later she received a call from a tall Swede, vaguely familiar. He was a brother who had disappeared 26 years ago from their home in the north of Sweden. Soprano Ljungberg well remembers the day. She had just made her first loaves of bread, set them proudly...
...taxi to Sweden's Royal Palace last week drove Mr. & Mrs. Sinclair Lewis. The Lord High Chamberlain, Baron Rude-beck, and the First Lady in Waiting, Countess Lewenhaupt led them into an antechamber abuzz with guests. After a pause a silver trumpet sounded. Gustaf V, King of Sweden and of the Goths and Wends entered escorting Princess Ingeborg (his brother Carl's wife, the King of Denmark's sister), followed by the rest of the Royal Family. All Ladies of the Court were in black, for Queen Victoria of Sweden (No. 1 patient of best-selling Memoir-Writer Dr. Axel...