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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Associate Producer Hulburd bought Hurricane for $60,000. In due time a friendly letter came from Authors Nordhoff & Hall. They were mightily pleased to know that he had bought their story, they said, because Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had made such an admirable job of Mutiny on the Bounty. Samuel Goldwyn has never been connected with...
Atlantic City's publicity-hungry Chamber of Commerce last week augmented its fat press clipping albums by staging a football game to which spectators were decorously invited to wear evening clothes. On a full-sized football field in Atlantic City's tremendous Convention Hall, Pennsylvania Military College managed to score a field goal, beat the University of Delaware 3-to-0 in the season's only in door collegiate football game...
This week the Hammond comes into its musical majority when Italian Organist Fernando Germani, a onetime child prodigy, gives a Hammond recital in Boston's Symphony Hall. First organist to take a Hammond on tour, he will play Bach and Handel organ music, as well as arrangements of piano and orchestral compositions, in 52 U. S. cities. An organ debutant with the Chicago Symphony nine years ago, when he was 20, Germani is now official organist of Rome's Augusteo Orchestra. As Benito Mussolini's favorite musician, he played at the wedding of Daughter Edda and Count...
...flourishes and foot-tappings, was praised by Critic Cecil Smith of the Tribune for lightening the symphony's habitual "humorless heavy-handedness." Next month First Violinist Gladys Welge, favorite of one group of players, will try her hand at conducting. In February, Conductor Erno Rapee (Radio City Music Hall) should settle the question of whether a man or a woman can get more out of this 76-woman team. Ebba Sundstrom, having sportingly attended last week's concert, sportingly declared she would study conducting in the East this winter, in case the symphony wishes to give her another...
...Friends of Music. Its purpose: to give Manhattanites the very best in chamber music, played by the very best artists (TIME, Nov. 16). Before selling a ticket for his series of 16 Sunday concerts, Mr. Hirschmann boldly took on some $9,000 worth of contracts with artists and Town Hall. The season over, astute Friend of Music Hirschmann could grin at calamity-howlers; he was out of pocket only $400. Last Sunday, when the New Friends' second season opened, Mr. Hirschmann's grin was even wider. Mayor LaGuardia, District Attorney-Elect Dewey, Simeon Strunsky of the New York...