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...Finland, away from the world's musical spotlight, there lives a bald, rotund old man who with his music has won more respect than almost any other living composer. Finns idolize their Jean Sibelius, stamp and cheer when they hear his music expertly played. Last year they cheered Werner Janssen, son of the Manhattan restaurateur ("Janssen Wants to See You"). And because Sibelius praised him lavishly too, young Janssen was given a chance this winter to conduct the New York Philharmonic-Symphony...
Most Manhattan critics felt that he was too immature for so important a job, expressed no regrets when the Philharmonic failed to re-engage him. But back in Finland last week Werner Janssen had a hero's welcome. Again the Finns cheered everything he played. Again Sibelius championed him, said: "I cannot say how much I admire his inspiring and ardent interpretation of my intentions...
...Norway last October, among them well-beloved Bishop Logan Herbert Roots of Hankow, spending a year of Group travel by special permission of the U. S. Episcopal House of Bishops. By the time it reached Copenhagen last Easter, the team had grown to 250, including the Bishop of Finland and many a Scandinavian socialite. The combined weight of big names, the Groups' persuasive message and a good Press left Bergen, Olso and many a smaller town breathless. Said Tidens Tegn: "The mental outlook of the whole country has definitely changed...
...Hearst business office bulletin boards last week hung a notice stating that Publisher Hearst had sent to Finland for some of the $25,000,000 worth of newsprint paper he buys every year, heretofore from Canada. Reason (according to the bulletin): Finland, as the only country in the world to pay its War debt to the U. S., deserved some business...
...Landauer has other fancies: She gathers old writing paper, bookplates, lottery tickets, railroad passes, war letters, wine labels. Her "flying" songs come from England, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Russia, Finland, Japan. The oldest is "The Balloon," sung in London in 1782. Most famed is "Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine" (1910). But not to be scorned is "The Air Ship Waltz for Piano or Organ" (1891), dedicated to the Married Ladies' Musicale of Greensburg, Ind., or "Take Me Down to Squantum, I Want to See Them Fly," composed especially for the Boston Aero Meet of 1912, or "Since...