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...born Leopold Godowsky*-one of the world's top pianists as well as a talented composer-became imperial royal professor of music to Austria's Emperor Franz Joseph. Recalls Dagmar: "It was not unusual to come home [from school] and find Paderewski. Chaliapin, Kreisler, Hofmann, Caruso, Elman, Damrosch" or such writers as "Jakob Wassermann, Gerhart Hauptmann. Hermann Sudermann. Thomas Mann, every mann...
Dinosaur's Ear. The first network broadcast was delivered through a microphone that looked like a dinosaur's hearing aid, but the talent added up to a four-hour 1926 spectacular: Dr. Walter Damrosch and the New York Symphony, Weber and Fields, the Met's Titta Ruffo, and the dance bands of Ben Bernie, George Olsen and Vincent Lopez. In the following years, while the unseen U.S. audience grew from 5 million radio sets to 127 million radios and 38 million TV sets, NBC kept the air buzzing with such big names and pioneering feats...
...Dinner Party, this leisurely, secure world is chronicled with grace and unobtrusive humor by a practicing resident. Gretchen Finletter's credentials: she is a descendant of James G. Elaine, a daughter of famed Conductor Walter Damrosch, the wife of lawyer and onetime Secretary of the Air Force Thomas K. Finletter of Manhattan and Bar Harbor, Me. Her heroine is terrified by the very fashionable and the very bright, but Author Finletter is both bright and fashionable. She has written a scattering of plays, and a book of memoirs. Once, for a charity show, she wrote a play called...
...others: New Orleans' Nathan Franko (off and on from 1899 to 1913), Detroit's Max Bendix (1909-1910). Schippers is the youngest conductor at the Met since Walter Damrosch, who was signed...
Died. Merlin Hall Aylesworth, 66, pioneer in network radio (he introduced listeners to Amos 'n' Andy, Major Edward Bowes, the Walter Damrosch music appreciation hour), first president of the National Broadcasting Co. (1926-36), onetime (1938-39) publisher of the old New York World-Telegram; after long illness; in Manhattan...