Word: batons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...power of attraction lies in his reputation for being "primitive." He is "primitive" no longer, but Les Noces is a perfect example of what used to be meant by that term. Written for percussion instruments, piano, four soloists and a chorus, it was given last week under the enthusiastic baton of Philadelphia Conductor Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski...
Napoleon said the baton of a field marshal was hidden in the knapsack of every soldier. Leopold Stokowski, Little Corporal of orchestra directors, believes the baton of a conductor may be concealed in the sleeve of each and every man in his famed Philadelphia Orchestra. Following the resignations last week of assistant conductor Artur Rodzinski, who goes to the Coast as leader of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; of concert master Mischa Mischakoff, who blurted that he was leaving because of Stokowski's "rude and unfair treatment"; and of David Dubinsky, leader of the second violins, who deserted for reasons...
...charge was: Governor Long, "in an attempt to suppress the freedom of the press," had intimidated Publisher-Critic Charles P. Manship of the Baton Rouge Daily State Times, by threatening to expose the fact that Mr. Manship's brother, Douglas, was in an insane asylum. Later Governor Long, in a radio speech, made good his threat. What he did not say was that Douglas Manship was a shock-victim...
...months Huey P. Long has been Louisiana's governor. To many it seemed ten months too long. He had ruled the state as a political dictator, had tramped into the Legislature at Baton Rouge to issue his orders, had played hob with the State's appointive boards and commissions. For ten months his opponents cringed before him, treasuring their grievances. Last week the gusty wind of popular favor veered 180 degrees and a hurricane of public condemnation swept down upon the young man who styled himself the "Kaiser of Louisiana...
...with fast-beating pulse, enduring alternate chills and fever, the man with the calm grey eyes would sometimes cast them for a long time on the richly embroidered Banner of all the Allied Nations, which hung above his head. Sometimes too he would call for his baton-the baton of a Marshal of France-and with the tips of his old fingers would caress along the shaft the hard and prickly stars...