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...JOSEF VISSARIONOVITCH STALIN, 48, virtual dictator of the Soviet Union, is the General Secretary of the Polit-bureau (Political Bureau) of the Communist Party, in which the supreme power of the party is vested. Like his comrades, M. Stalin (Starleen) suffered imprisonment and banishment for his revolutionary activities. He is distinguished by a well-shaped head surrounded by a shock of black hair, just beginning to grey. He has a silky black mustache. His eyes are black, and rarely is there a gleam of merriment in them. His facial features suggest cruelty-a hard mask of oriental ruthlessness...
...hodge-podge of Handel, Stravinsky, Aaron Copland and Saint-Saens, the first was the best. Beside the Firework-Music (written so long ago as 1749 to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle) Stravinsky's virtuosity seemed pale, Copland's Scherzo, flimsy. Pianist Josef Hofmann gave the evening a special glitter by an interpretation of the C Minor Concerto which was more profound than Saint-Saens'music...
...Philharmonic Orchestra, with its second program, fitted an exquisite bit into its season's mosaic. Mme. Wanda Landowska was soloist, played to Josef Willem Mengelberg's accompaniment the Mazort Concerto in E flat, the Finale of his Harpsichord Concerto in D. Critics sat enthralled, spent their dearest words, said nothing worthy of so unique an artist...
...Philadelphia Orchestra began with Fritz Reiner of the Cincinnati Symphony for guest the first half season. Sir Thomas Beecham (England), Ossip Gabrilowitsch (Detroit), Josef Willem Mengelberg (New York Philharmonic), Pierre Monteux (France) and Frederick Stock (Chicago) are possibilities for portions of the last half. Conductor Leopold Stokowski (whose arm is lamed) sailed last week for Europe and the Orient, to be away a year looking for new, unusual music...
...Cleveland, the Orchestra began its tenth season under Nikolai Sokolov, its first and only conductor, under Adella Prentiss Hughes, its first and only manager. Twenty pairs of concerts were announced with such famed soloists as Josef Hofmann, Harold Samuel, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Paul Kochanski, Albert Spalding. Maurice Ravel will be guest conductor...