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...foreign-born conductors, Britten's English idiom was new, at first forbidding and finally fascinating. Said white-haired, Russian-born Conductor Emil Cooper, who will conduct the first performance of Grimes: "For 40 years I am a conductor, but I do not know English opera before. There is no difficulty in doing Italian opera; when you start you know what you are doing. French and German the same. This is somehow different . . . the rhythms and inflections of English speech which Britten gets into his music. . . . But I am excited...
Died. Ernst Emil Herzfeld, 68, German-born archeologist famed for his triumphs among the ruins of Persepolis; of cancer; in Basel, Switzerland. Herzfeld dug for four years in & around the ancient Persian capital (burned by Alexander the Great in 330 B.C.), in 1933 unearthed sculpture believed to be the earliest specimens of art discovered in Asia, found a nearly perfectly preserved Stone Age village containing the earliest known windows, murals and household pottery...
...stockmarket. The great wartime bull market had died in 1946, scared to death by fear of the recession that is not yet here. Yet the stockmarket went right on acting as if recession were just around the corner. Wall Streeters wryly quipped that New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram "was the one man in the country to reduce prices...
...margins. He pointed out that since Oct. 7, when the grain exchanges had boosted their margins to 33⅓%, speculation has "declined sharply." Commodity traders, who are dead set against any governmental control of margins, took no comfort from Mehl's report. But New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram cried that Mehl had performed a "public service" in showing how high stock exchange margins had helped bring on the speculation in commodities. However, Schram thought that the answer was not to raise commodity margins, but lower margins on stocks...
...appeal goes forth. "The Good Road" plays before "invitation" audiences of people with either means or influence. Furthermore, the public figures who lend it the strength of their names include, in addition to chairman Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, both the moneyed such as the New York Stock Exchange's Emil Sehram and the politically entrenched such as Senators Arthur Capper and Alexander Wiley as well as Presidential adviser John R. Steelman. MRA is out to win the minds of the policy-shapers and the public-opinion leaders. Its great vitality renders it worth the watching...