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Died. Alfred Hertz. 69, black-bearded, bald conductor of German opera at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera from 1902 to 1915, director of the San Francisco Symphony for the following 15 years; in San Francisco. At the Met he conducted the first U.S. performances of Richard Strauss's Salome and Rosenkavalier...
...numerous other masters. Certainly, we realize that much of his music is great; we own and play many Tschaikowski records. But we scoff at Mr. Baggaley's claims that each of the last three symphonies and the two concertos is a "completely satisfying vessel of musical expression." Willard J. Hertz...
Bankruptcy ridded Paramount of at least 265 theaters, slashed the value of its properties to $86,000,000, but failed to make it profitable. It was then that Joe Kennedy, at the request of the directors (notably John Daniel Hertz) wrote his report, for which he was paid...
Despite Kennedy's bearishness, the Hertz group chose to retain control, putting in a new management headed by bald, pleas ant Barney Balaban, oldtime Chicago exhibitor...
Mayor Ed Kelly of Chicago had a two-hour lunch last week with President Roosevelt. That day and the next he conferred at length and stormily with Harry Hopkins, John Daniel Hertz (ex-Yellow Cab magnate and now with Army's Motor Transport Division), who is a friend of Kelly's, a father confessor to Hopkins; Federal Lender Jesse Jones, and other key insiders. What Mayor Kelly said was not reported in the press. It would have made big headlines if it had been...