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Governor-What experience had [Deputy Sheriff Jacob] Rosenberg? What is his duty...
...Mongolian bandits of tractor bands for the cars. On worn bands the cars carried the party to clean clothes, bath tubs, decorations* and a good long rest. But for intrepid Explorer Petropavlosky, Peiping meant a bride. He had met Miss Barbara Rose Schurman while her father, Cornell's Jacob Gould Schurman, was Minister to China, but to marry her he had waited until the completion of the expedition, for which the explorers were preparing for three years...
Last week Tenor George Garner was the first recitalist of the season to sell out the great Civic Opera House. Widow Blackstone is dead, her musty old mansion demolished. But thanks to her and rich Mrs. Jacob R. Custer, young Garner has had six years' study abroad. Last week, singing for the benefit of unemployed Negroes, he proved that he had made much of his opportunities. He has acquired an Oxford accent, learned better how to manage a voice that is strong, smooth, mellow...
There are two able young routine conductors in San Francisco now: Russian Issai Dobrowen and British Basil Cameron. Jacob Levison, 69-year-old insurance man, as head of the Musical Association, probably gives more than anyone else towards the orchestra's support. President Levison played the flute himself once in an amateur symphonic band. He staunchly advocates music as a hobby for businessmen. Prominent businessmen who were drafted to boost the $175,000 campaign starting this week included Bankers Mortimer Fleishhacker and William Henry Crocker, Sugar-broker Wallace McKinney Alexander, Chamber of Commerceman Leland Cutter. Robert Watt Miller, able...
...years petty cliques have hindered the development of the San Francisco orchestra. In 1915 when bald, bearded Alfred Hertz went there to conduct, friends of social, correct Henry Hadley, his predecessor, went so far as to accuse him of being pro-German.- Hertz had a good friend in Jacob Bertha Levison, president of the Musical Association which sponsors the orchestra, but there were potential patrons who could not forget that Jews were in command. There was anti-Hertz feeling throughout his long, able administration (1915-30). Without it he might have been persuaded to withdraw his resignation. He likes...