Word: antone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Married. Anton Seidel, farmer's son, and Theresa Schwarz, village belle; in Sotine, Jugoslavia. There were 2,750 invited and uninvited guests who consumed, during nine days and nights of celebration, six cows, 16 calves, 600 chickens, 300 turkeys, 20,000 quarts of beer, 10,000 quarts of wine, 200 quarts of plum whiskey, then they fell into haystacks, slept two days and two nights...
From Paris came roundabout word that Boston Symphony trustees have extended Conductor Serge Koussevitzky's contract indefinitely. The salary, it is said, "exceeds all expectations." Presumably it elevates Conductor Koussevitzky to a financial status comparable with that of Arturo Toscanini (New York Philharmonic Symphony) and Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski (Philadelphia Orchestra...
...Philadelphia last week Conductor Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski continued to discipline his audience (TIME, Nov. 12). At an afternoon concert he gave stragglers just one minute, 58 seconds to find their seats, then had the doors closed. Hereafter Philadelphia Orchestra concerts will begin promptly and nothing will interrupt...
...Chicago, even the ubiquitous art of stumping has a peculiar technique. For example, Anton J. Cermak, wet Democratic nominee for U. S. Senator, got up on the stage of the Garrick Theatre and produced a photostatic copy of a hospital chart, showing that his Republican opponent, Otis F. Glenn, had received treatment for delirium tremens in 1912. Then Mr. Cermak cried: "I have affidavits here that this man [Glenn], accompanied by Prohibition agents, visits stills and breweries, running illegally, and drinks so much that they have to carry him from there...
Conductor Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski has a way of taking his Philadelphia audiences to account. Last week they annoyed him by coming late to a concert, clattering down the aisles, banging down seats. He stopped the music, wheeled on them: "Please, please don't make those noises. They are very distracting. We work hard all week to give you this music, but I cannot do my best without your aid. I'll give you my best or I won't give you anything. It is for you to choose...