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...sedate Los Angeles Philharmonic met competition last week-and did not much like it. The upstart who provided the competition was a hawk-eyed, gloomy-looking U.S. composer-conductor, Werner Janssen, who, well in advance of the Philharmonic's opening, led his 48 musicians through their first concert of the season...
Many a curiously bent tree growing in the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes region is no mere freak of nature. It is the handwork of long-dead Indians. In the July Scientific Monthly Geologist Raymond E. Janssen of Evanston, Ill. tells how he settled the puzzle of the crooked trees for which he could find no scientific explanation anywhere. He ran across a few historical references which indicated that "trees were sometimes bent by the Indians to mark trails through the forests." Several summers of study convinced Janssen that the deformed trees are surviving guideposts...
...London. Oscar Hammerstein took Grant back to Manhattan where he worked (for five years at $350 to $550 a week) in Hammerstein musicals and for the Shuberts when they bought up his contract. Soon he was talking shop with, playing the piano for, Richard Rodgers, Moss Hart, Werner Janssen, the Gershwins...
Night after the Germans pounced on Scandinavia last week, Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad. Swedish Contralto Kerstin Thorborg, Danish Tenor Lauritz Melchior and German Baritone Herbert Janssen sang together in Wagner's Tannhäuser in Cleveland. Their audience felt a tenseness on the stage. They did not know that Soprano Flagstad had been trying, unsuccessfully, to get in touch by telephone and cable with her husband, daughter, mother and sister in Oslo. The curtain went down on the final swellings of the Pilgrims' Chorus. Flagstad & Co. bowed at something bigger than most opera singers ever see: an auditorium...
...PHILIP JANSSEN Paris, France...