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...summer, as he did last. He will also do five performances of Parsifal, replacing the ageing Karl Muck who was openly dissatisfied because Toscanini had many rehearsals last year while he was limited to a few. Beginning in 1933 (there is no Festival in 1932), artistic director will be Impresario Heinz Tietjen of the Berlin State Theatre and Opera. Musical director will be Wilhelm Furtwängler, another onetime Philharmonic hero. Conductor Furtwängler, not Toscanini, will probably conduct Tristan und Isolde this summer...
...point scoring was introduced in 1916 had been broken, Brocardo & Georgetti kept their lead, took first place, with De Nef & Charlier second, Belloni & Richili third. How far the results of a six-day race are determined in advance critics of sport have never agreed. At times John Chapman, impresario of U. S. six-day racing, promoter of races in Newark, Boston, Chicago, Providence, has been suspected of arranging an appeal to whatever foreign element is largest in the town where the race was being held. But recent races won by Frenchmen Letourner & Guinbretiere in Pole-filled Chicago have weakened such...
...this threat Impresario White made clarion answer. He declared that this year's Maverick would be "the most stupendous spectacle ever seen in America." According to tradition it will be held at full moon in a long mountain meadow. It is strictly in costume, the more outlandish and inane the better. Lunches are packed, fires are kindled, and as the afternoon's spectacle progresses, sitters (thousands come, anyone who has the price of admission) munch and watch. The colonists sell their batiks, paintings, arty gadgets. Newsboys hawk a special edition of the bulletin. Late in the afternoon a costume promenade...
Next week Manhattanites may expect to see billboards and subway placards advertising "Opera at the Polo Grounds." Impresario Alfredo Salmaggi will offer Aida in New York's big baseball park on Aug. 2, second annual presentation. Last year's outdoor Aida drew crowds who cannot afford Metropolitan opera seats, can afford Polo Ground opera at $1. Encouraged by success, Maestro Salmaggi has swelled this year's cast to 1,000, has added three camels, three elephants, eight horses to the Egyptian props. Impressive in the big concrete stadium will be vocal choruses, troupes of dancers, parades in full oriental pomp...
...Impresario. Ravinia owes its existence to Louis Eckstein, a genial, versatile gentleman whose vocations have been many but whose one and only avocation is Ravinia. President Eckstein ("president" is the title he gives himself for managing and financing an opera company) was born 65 years ago in Milwaukee, attended public school and a business college run by Robert C. Spencer of handwriting renown. Passionately fond of music, he studied the violin, never became particularly expert, never considered making music his profession. His first job was with the Wisconsin Central R. R. for which he became passenger traffic manager while still...