Word: batons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only sour note in this best musical of recent date is the weak attempt at acting by Glenn Miller. Once he lets go of the baton, his part might as well be played by a frozen penguin. In the second feature George Sanders plays "The Gay Falcon" to a slightly bored Wendy Barrie and a very bored audience who have seen such grade D mysteries oh so many times before...
...Army has more young musicians than anyone can shake a baton at. The best white swing band yet formed in an Army camp set out last week from Fort Dix, N.J. to go on a tour of other camps...
Last week Leopold Stokowski-while setting out with an All-American Youth Orchestra to tour 45 cities in the U. S., Canada, Mexico-was mentioned as successor to international music's "Old Man" -Arturo Toscanini-at the baton of the great and costly NBC Symphony. The reason was that Maestro Toscanini, up to last week, had kept strictly mum about his future plans, and the NBC Symphony was badly in need of a great conductor...
Outsider. In Baton Rouge, junketing Congressman Charles A. Wolverton, Rep., N.J., stopped to visit Louisiana's House of Representatives. On which side of the House, inquired polite Representative Wolverton, did the Republicans sit? "Out side," chorused his hosts...
Once they were just 25 amateurs, sawing and whuffing under the baton of a music-store proprietor. Last week they were still partly amateur. But with near-professional gusto, in the final concert of its season, the El Paso Symphony bounced through a professional program: Delius, Tchaikovsky, Borodin, the Beethoven first symphony and-with an imported professional soloist, Violinist Henry Temianka -the Lalo Symphonic Espagnole...