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...canonization ceremonies may cost as much as $30,000, which is borne by persons interested in the new saint. Last week St. Peter's was alight, packed with pilgrims from all nations including many a white-bonneted nun. Cardinals Verdier of Paris and Lienart of Lille, and Mrs. Bruno Benziger, wife of a Manhattan publisher, who was there as official representative of the New York Ladies of Charity. Pope Pius XI was borne in, amid cheers, on his high scdia gcstatoria. Gravely he presided over the lengthy canonization ceremony. Then in reply to thrice-repeated petitions the Holy Father...
...Philharmonic's SOS drive (TIME, Feb. 5) there have been many protests against Toscanini's salary, rumored to be between $75,000 and $90,000 per season. The Missa Solemnis rounded out 14 performances in the Toscanini Beethoven Cycle. Each one has sold out to the doors. Bruno Walter and Hans Lange, the other Philharmonic conductors, make a practice of using popular soloists but even so neither one of them this season has been able to sell out Carnegie Hall...
...Toscanini was a "very lovable man." Yehudi had received two telegrams from Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, Hitler's music man, asking him to "help mend the broken threads between Germany and the rest of the world." And when Yehudi refused unless the ban was raised against Bruno Walter and other Jewish musicians, Furtwängler had replied, "It will be your fault if music goes to the dogs in Germany...
...Equally characteristic was Toscanini's greeting to his Philharmonic-Symphony men. Day after he arrived he attended a concert, went backstage in intermission and stopped a tremendous ovation to ask "Where is my first horn, Jaenicke?" Shy, red-faced Bruno Jaenicke, whom Toscanini considers the world's greatest horn player, had stayed home that day with a stomach-ache...
...when Liggett & Meyers Tobacco Co. started Leopold Stokowski and his Philadelphia Orchestra broadcasting six nights a week for Chesterfield cigarets (TIME, Nov. 27). This week Cadillac Motor Cars and Lucky Strike cigarets overtook Chesterfields. Cadillac started a rich symphonic series for Sunday nights (6 to 7 E. S. T.). Bruno Walter conducted the first concert, Jascha Heifetz fiddled. Conductors to come: Artur Bodanzky, Eugene Ormandy, Walter Damrosch, Fritz Reiner, Sir Henry Wood...