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...immediately demonstrated a genius for bad public relations. He banned a broadcast by 160 boys & girls from the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Mich. The press reacted as though he had burned off their heads with an acetylene torch; Congress and the Justice Department jostled each other in their rush to investigate him. He plunged on, hauled the nation's big symphony orchestras into the union, and with them artists like Iturbi, Spalding and Zimbalist. "They're mine," he cried. "What's the difference between Heifetz and a fiddler in a tavern...
...nettles in the primrose path of James Caesar Petrillo has been the National Music Camp at Interlochen (Mich.), where more than 600 boys & girls study orchestra and composition every summer. Three years ago, swarthy, owl-eyed Musicians' Union Boss Petrillo decided that the ten-to 18-year-old musicians (too young to pay union dues) were "nonprofessional"; he stopped their weekly broadcasts over NBC. Gentle-mannered Dr. Joseph Edgar Maddy, Interlochen director and a union member for 36 years, switched the concerts to Michigan's noncommercial, state-owned station WKAR...
Frustrated Petrillo kept squirming until he hit upon an idea: put Interlochen on his "unfair list" and threaten its instructors with union suspension (TIME, Feb. 19). Dr. Maddy countered by employing college teachers and composers who, not dependent upon instrumental jobs, are not alarmed by Petrillo's threat. Last week he opened the camp as usual, said nonchalantly: "Now it's up to Petrillo. Actually [he] doesn't make a bit of difference. We're going on with our work...
...have a niece 14 years old who lives in Flint, Mich. Her name is Joyce and she studies piano. For seven years she has practiced three to four hours a day with Interlochen Summer Camp as a guiding influence. This summer she may realize her goal. . . . I have belonged to a union, paid dues and held office. However, I fail to find justification in this most recent attack of Czar Petrillo. . . . My niece has earned and saved most of her tuition fee. Must it go to a union? . . . Why not leave the children alone and fight real issues...
Petrillo contends that Interlochen is a commercial proposition, because the boys & girls pay a fee. Dr. Maddy says it is a non-profit educational corporation, but that tuition is necessary for expenses. The broadcasts were non-commercial except for the 1930 season, when Dr. Maddy got permission for a commercial program. The sponsor then had been Petrillo's union...