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...severely handsome, blue-carpeted room overlooking Lake Michigan. It contains two desks, one flat and one rolltop, and last week no one sat at either. But hard at work next door, in the same cubbyhole he has occupied for 29 years, was beaknosed, grey-haired Edward J. (for nothing) Engel...
...camera, could remember having seen some such score. On Tuesday a phone call was put through to the Library of Congress in Washington. Music Librarian Harold Spivacke burrowed all day, late at night emerged in dusty triumph with a lithograph of the score (purchased for the Library by Carl Engel in 1922). On Wednesday photostat copies were hurriedly made and airmailed to Mr. Toscanini. On Thursday NBC copyists frantically scribbled scripts for the 105 men in the NBC orchestra. On Friday they rushed through a single rehearsal. On Saturday they proudly played it for the world to hear. After...
AMERICAN SONG ALBUM (The Madrigal Singers, Lehman Engel conducting; Columbia: 8 sides). Contains such odd bits of early Americana as Lilly Dale, Lubly Fan Will You Cum Out Tonight and Cocaine Lil. Unfortunately, the singing is spotty...
...Carrier Moreschi complained to State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney last fortnight. Hoagland & Allum Vice President Russell W. Brown was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in his garage. The three surviving officers. President George F. Allum, Vice President Olaf Andrew Larsen and Secretary & Treasurer Henry Adolph Engel, went to jail for lack of bail. Few days later the Chicago Stock Exchange took the unprecedented step of advertising "An Open Letter to the Public . . . INVESTIGATE -BEFORE YOU INVEST...
...made, so a little man stepped up and offered to take everybody over to his theatre, the Venice, 20 blocks away. It required John Houseman only a minute to invite the crowd to an emergency performance. There would not be the 28-piece orchestra that Conductor Lehman Engel had spent six weeks rehearsing, only Composer Blitzstein and his piano. People who preferred to get their money back might do so. Only one man applied. Under similarly shabby circumstances Clifford Odets' Waiting For Lefty was first shown. Not since then, in the opinion of most of the audience, had Manhattan...