Word: becks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Furtwaengler is 38, a native Berliner, with a very impressive record?pupil of the boresome, but thorough, Rheinberger, theatre Conductor at L?beck and Zurich, successor of Artur Bodanzky at the Mannheim opera, Conductor of the Tonkünstler Orchestra at Vienna, successor of Richard Strauss at the Berlin Opera, Director of the Berlin Musikfreunde, of the Berlin Philharmonic, of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. On the score of previous experience, he holds his own with all newcomers...
...Fall, composer of The Dollar Princess, has enshrined Mme. Pompadour in a light opera. It journeys from a successful London run to Manhattan in October. Martin Beck has acquired the rights. Charles Dillingham will be in charge of the production, with which he will open the new West Side Theatre. Maggie Teyte, it has been announced, will sing the leading role...
...TREASURE OF Ho-L. Adams Beck-Dodd, Mead ($2.00). Tucked in between covers of Chinese blue, with unruffled Chinese cranes strutting on them, is an absorbing tale of jade, dragons, chop suey, hidden shrines, legendary treasure, lotus flowers, all served up with an authentic Oriental flavor. It is the story of one John Mallerdean, in the Peking Customs Service, whose great-great uncle first got a foot in China's open door by curing the Emperor Chienlung of his gout and temper. A most provocative mixture of fact and fancy, some at least of Mallerdean's adventures...
...Conte Verde (Lloyd Sabaudo) ?Seymour L. Cromwell, onetime President of the New York Stock Exchange; Tito Schipa, tenor of the Chicago Opera Company, bound for Italy where he will be decorated by Benito; James M. Beck, famed Solicitor General...
Doubles.--Ingraham and Captain Pfaffmann (H) defeated L. Coleman and Kunkel (G), 6-4, 6-3; Cummings and Harrington (H) defeated S. Coleman and Smith, (G), 6-3, 6-0; Wheeler and Whit beck (G) defeated Briggs and Dixon...