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...attended also by the U. S. Supreme Court, Cabinet members, foreign diplomats and invited celebrities. Following his address, the President will march out to the east steps of the Capitol to lead the singing of "America" by 10,000 massed voices accompanied by three bands and conducted by Walter Damrosch. The composite result will be broadcast. There will be afternoon exercises at the Washington monument, a ball in the evening for which the costumes were designed by one Anne Washington. Once under way, the Bicentennial celebration will be the occasion for protracted and unprecedented patriotic adulation, artistic and otherwise...
Birthdays. Dr. Francis Landey Patton, Princeton's onetime president and "Grand Old Man" (89); Wilhelm Hohenzollern (73) ; Vice President Charles Curtis (72) ; Walter Johannes Damrosch (70); Baritone Antonio Scotti (65); Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...Manhattan to conduct the New York Symphony and it became known then that his real name was Schlesinger, that he had taken the more euphonious name Walter after the hero of Die Meistersinger, an opera he conducted brilliantly when he was very young. After the long administration of Walter Damrosch, the New York Symphony was in a hopelessly lethargic state. Conscious of failure, he returned to Europe to increase his honor...
...onset of Hansel und Gretel came telegrams of praise. Director Giulio Gatti-Casazza, pleased as Punch, had been popping to & from the backstage office of Press Agent William J. ("Billy") Guard, where a receiving set had been installed. Chairman Cravath was impressed. "A miracle! . . ." said Radio Conductor Walter Johannes Damrosch. The engineers who had succeeded in making the whole country (and several further parts of the world) an opera house, said that the old part-wooden Met was much easier to work with than Chicago's handsome new opera house, whose concrete tends to give off bass echoes...
Vladimir Golschmann has conducted in Manhattan before, in 1924 when he was 30, as guest of Walter Damrosch's New York Symphony. He came well recommended then from his native Paris where from violinist he rose to conduct his own Concerts Golschmann, presenting many a contemporary French composer. He conducted successfully after that with the Diaghilev Ballet but in Manhattan he made slight impression. The Symphony was in a badly run-down condition. Symphony men, used to calm, benevolent Conductor Damrosch, objected to Golschmann's nervous, high-pitched voice, his worried manner...