Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sears Prizes, to Erwin Nathaniel Griswold 3L., of Cleveland O.; Louis Leventhal Jaffe 3L., of San Francisco, Cal.; Herman Thomas Austern 2L., of New York City; and Jule Elias Stocker 2L., of New York City. Saltonstall Prize, to Judah Isaacs 1L., of Cincinnati, O. William Cheney Brown, Jr. scholarship to Lewis Hyman Weinstein 1L., of Portland, Me. John L. Cadwalader Memorial Scholarship to Edward Willard, of State College, Pa. Langdell Scholarships, to Frederick Beutel 1L., of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Moses Samuel Huberman 3L., of Belle Harbor, N. Y. Reuben B. Hutchcraft Memorial Scholarship to Vincent Booth 1L., of Bennington...
...Francisco was treated to the announcement that the symphony begin its 17th season free of debt, with the strongest personnel in its history, the largest advance sale. Credit was given the 640 guarantors who comprise the Musical Association of San Francisco, whose individual gifts ranging from $100 to $5,000 make possible the 70 concerts with soloists as famed as Beniamino Gigli, Harold Bauer, Edward Johnson, Albert Spalding, Maurice Ravel. To Conductor Alfred Hertz the glory and the honor for his splendid stewardship...
Thirteen years ago the Boston Symphony, superb under Karl Muck, visited San Francisco, and stirred civic-minded Westerners to shame for the flickering, undernourished group of players that went by the name of the San Francisco Symphony. They made big appropriations, swept clean, ousted Conductor Henry Hadley, called Alfred Hertz from New York. Then 43, there were as many gold stars on his record as there were hairs in his beard, stars that went all the way back to his earliest days in Frankfort, when, a square little Hessian boy in skirts, he pulled himself up onto the music piano...
...that his imagination might not be blurred, his initiative eventually retarded" he left the Metropolitan, took over the San Francisco Orchestra for $10,000 a year. There followed months of strife. Friends of the Hadley régime refused to accept him, called him "pro-German," made others suspect. He saw, heard, spoke no evil, swung his great bulk onto the platform, turned his back, hung his cane on the rail before him and made big music till the Cort Theatre was too small and his neighbors forgave him. Now at 55 he has the energy...
Beginning Jan. 9 the pictures will be shown in Brooklyn for six weeks. After this the 280 pictures by foreign artists will be hung for a time in San Francisco...