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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were too quick for him and he had to drop the violin-on the luggage of Max, who consequently was arrested for the theft. But Jonny was invincible. He blackjacked policemen, sent Max for the train that would start him with Anita for the U. S. where a big contract awaited. Jonny had what he wanted-the precious violin...
...first year. Then, in 1910. he went into the taxicab business with Walden W. Shaw. The Chicago Athletic Club wanted a private cab service. Messrs. Hertz and Shaw had only two second-hand cars. They borrowed eight others, painted them brightly, paraded past the Chicago Athletic Club, won the contract...
Last week, Mrs. Anne U. Stillman announced that she had grown tired of Panorama and would stop publishing it immediately. The entire staff, with the exception of Editor H. B. Mayer, who has a contract, was discharged. Said Mrs. Stillman...
...American Sketches to Thomas Griselle of Mount Vernon, N. Y., graduate (1911) of the Cincinnati College of Music, whose recent activities have been with special radio programs. Second prize has been awarded Rube Bloom of Brooklyn for his Song of the Bayou. Both, according to terms of the contract, are U. S. citizens. Each composition took less than five minutes when smartly played at the banquet by Nat Shilkret and his Victor orchestra. Next day both compositions were released on a record-Griselle's Nocturne and March on one side, Bloom's Bayou with its chorus...
From Paris came roundabout word that Boston Symphony trustees have extended Conductor Serge Koussevitzky's contract indefinitely. The salary, it is said, "exceeds all expectations." Presumably it elevates Conductor Koussevitzky to a financial status comparable with that of Arturo Toscanini (New York Philharmonic Symphony) and Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski (Philadelphia Orchestra...