Word: conductors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Going to help his brother, John W. Cox, 21, Harvard student, insisted upon riding in the club car of a Boston-to-New York train, although he lacked money for the Pullman fare. The conductor tried to oust him. John W. Cox protested and, according to the conductor, became abusive. John W. Cox was removed from the train and jailed overnight in Pelham...
...Manhattan last week Arturo Toscanini conducted the Philharmonic Orchestra's 2298th concert, the last of the season, its valedictory before it merges with the New York Symphony and becomes the Philharmonic-Symphony of New York. Toscanini will be chief conductor of the blended band. As such last week he was painted by newspapermen...
...slight, grizzled, the highest paid conductor in the world...
...Italy he is conductor of the Scala Opera in Milan-but he likes a concert orchestra better. He is interested in politics, ran once for the Italian Parliament on a Fascist ticket. His hobbies are painting and riding in a fast automobile; his life spent simply with Signora Toscanini, his two daughters-Wanda and Wally (the w's pronounced as v), his son Walter, a book collector in Milan...
...entertains old friends, few new ones-and opera singers practically not at all. As conductor he is supreme, can vitalize well-worn music as no other of the day. With him the music is the thing. A dowager soprano once fussed "But, maestro, don't you realize that I'm a star...