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...player, before each a face which alone might have been enough to bring to the hall the notable company that filled it on that evening. The company had assembled, the pianos trundled into line, all to get money for the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. Walter Damrosch*, famed conductor, waved his baton; the thunderous regiment as one voice responded...
Eyeing the hand of Conductor Damrosch, the entire congress began to play, with sonorous tutti, Saint-Saens' Variations on a Theme by Beethoven. Then Mines. Hess, Leginska and Mérë sat jowl to jowl at one piano, played Boieldieu's overture to La Dame Blanche. Laughter and applause. Mr. Brailowsky opened the preamble of Schummann's Carnaval, passed it on to Mr. Gabrilowitch, and so the music leaped from instrument to instrument "till all marched against the Philistines...
Married. Miss Anne Elizabeth Whelan, daughter of Charles A. Whelan, United Cigar Stores President, to Gilbert W. Kahn, son of Otto H. Kahn, head of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., famed bankers; in Manhattan. Present were Guilio Gatti-Casazza, Frances Alda, Lucrezia Bori, Antonio Scotti, John McCormack, Walter Damrosch, Josef Stransky, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew W. Mellon, Elisabeth Marbury, Elsie de Wolfe, Charles D. Gibson and 1,000 others. The wedding cake was seven feet high...
Married. Miss Anita Damrosch, daughter of Walter Damrosch, famed conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra, to Robert Littell, one of the editors of The New Republic; in Manhattan, on her 21st birthday. Granddaughter of James G. Elaine (of Maine), she is niece of Anita McCormick Blaine of Chicago...
...some men have a passion for horses, and some for women, so have I a passion for locomotives," Honegger tells us. He even worships monster engines, their speed, their strength, their noise. His Pacific 231-played recently by Mr. Damrosch's orchestra in Manhattan-was inspired by, and dedicated to Engine No. 231. Should a real, live locomotive burst into the concert hall, the effect would be no less terrifying than that produced by Honegger's short piece, so vivid is his portraiture...