Word: directors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...February, his 80-year-old Uncle Léopold Desfour-neaux was appointed temporary successor. Connoisseurs complained that Desfourneaux lacked his nephew's finesse, at his first execution took ten seconds to Deibler's customary three or four. Last week, after six weeks' cogitation, the prisons director pronounced Uncle Léopold's initial effort a complete success, thus making him France's new official high executioner...
...Chicago's WPA orchestra, the Illinois Symphony. When it was first organized in 1935 the Illinois Symphony was one of the Federal Music Project's ugly ducklings. For a year it bettelhtooped almost unnoticed. In the summer of 1936, the Music Project's pompous national director, Nikolai Sokoloff, went to Chicago to rehearse it for a concert under his own baton. When he heard it play he was afraid to be seen in public with it. Hastily recommending a new conductor and a shakeup in personnel, Director Sokoloff left town...
Hungary has enjoyed an artistic and musical rebirth resulting from the wave of nationalism which swept her after the war, Dr. laszle Telkes, director of the Hungarian Reference Library, New York, said yesterday in a lecture on "A Thousand Years of Hungarian Culture" in the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
...Thousand Years Of Hungarian Culture" will be the subject of a free, public lecture this afternoon by Dr. Laszlo Telkes, director of the Hungarian Reference Library, New York City, at the Institute of Geographical Exploration at four o'clock...
Charles A. Prosser, Director of the William Hood Dunwoody Industrial Institute of Minneapolis, Minnesota will deliver the fifteenth annual Inglis Lecture on April 14 in the Littauer Center auditorium, taking "Secondary Education and Life" as his subject, it was announced yesterday...