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...Toscanini's first orchestra concert last fortnight arrived Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Maharaja Raja I Rajgan of Kapurthala, and a pretty woman. They were late. Ignoring a strict Salzburg rule, the lean old Maharaja & friend pushed by a doorkeeper, swept down the aisle to their seats in the first row. Toscanini, who had lifted his baton to begin the last movement of a Mozart symphony, heard the commotion, turned around to glare, bowed ironically, growled: "Well, I can wait." The sympathetic audience broke into loud cheers which for a moment the flustered Maharaja seemed to take as a personal ovation...
Finally Princess Ileana attended with her mother a banquet which began at noon and lasted until high tea time. The host who tendered this Lucullan feast was His Highness, Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Kapurthala, famed pearl fancier...
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