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...summer, he had no notion that he would ever be invited to conduct Toscanini's New York orchestra. In his 38 years the crinkly-haired, wiry little Russian has gone far. He has conducted in Moscow. Dresden, Berlin, Sofia, Oslo. Last year he was chosen along with British Basil Cameron to succeed hulking Alfred Hertz in San Francisco. Last week it was announced that he would conduct the Philharmonic-Symphony for four weeks next winter, after Toscanini finishes the season's first eight weeks, before German Bruno Walter arrives...
...person. The main holdings of his companies are common knowledge, but it is certain that they also had many investments which have never been revealed. How much money he had, no one knew, not even himself. He said he did not care. Others said that next to Sir Basil Zaharoff he must have been, for a time at least, Europe's richest...
...until the throes of disaster led the Allies to appoint him their supreme commander could his faith burn openly where all could see and feel. "Materially, I do not see that victory is possible. Morally I am certain that we shall gain it." The Author. Born in 1895, Capt. Basil Henry Liddell Hart, entered the British Army in 1914 as a Cambridge University Candidate; at 20 he commanded a battalion. He invented the English Battle Drill System (1917); the Expanding Torrent method of attack, officially adopted since the War. Badly wounded, he stayed in the army until 1927. As military...
There are two able young routine conductors in San Francisco now: Russian Issai Dobrowen and British Basil Cameron. Jacob Levison, 69-year-old insurance man, as head of the Musical Association, probably gives more than anyone else towards the orchestra's support. President Levison played the flute himself once in an amateur symphonic band. He staunchly advocates music as a hobby for businessmen. Prominent businessmen who were drafted to boost the $175,000 campaign starting this week included Bankers Mortimer Fleishhacker and William Henry Crocker, Sugar-broker Wallace McKinney Alexander, Chamber of Commerceman Leland Cutter. Robert Watt Miller, able...
...European melodramatics, court intrigue and fictionized history?does not suit her so well as the vampire parts she used to play in silent films but it has a few amusing sequences. Pola Negri, as a celebrated lady of the stage, is enamored of a captain in the Royal Guards (Basil Rathbone). She finds herself closeted with the King who, as played by Roland Young, is an elegantly frowzy little monarch with no regal pretensions beyond that of giggling quietly at his own wisecracks. Presently, by royal command. Miss Negri is married to the King while her guardsman is jailed...