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...jury investigation of Philadelphia scandals. Last week Mayor-elect Joseph Hampton Moore announced Director Schofield's successor-a man he pointedly hoped would find other things to do than "being a captain of police to lead raids or a fire chief to rush to fires." New appointee is Kern Dodge, 51, socialite, consulting engineer. Never a politician, Director Dodge has been an executive council member of the Philadelphia Board of Trade. His father James -whom Mark Twain called "the greatest story teller in America"-founded and left his son a large interest in Link-Belt Co. Longtime friend...
...Fiddle is a tuneful concert by Jerome Kern which frames a little love story by Librettist Otto Har-bach. The scene, a bit on the lush side and pleasingly so, is laid in Brussels and Louvain' where Miss Bettina Hall and George S. Metaxa, two musicians, alternately fall in & out of each other's arms until the final curtain...
Unhappily, neither Miss Hall nor Mr. Metaxa have very attractive voices. Miss Hall belongs to that school of musicomedy prima donnas which signifies its charm and purity by assuming too, too graceful postures, willowing all over the stage. Most of the excellent Kern melodies seem to be thrown away in the pit as incidental music, but there are two numbers-"She Didn't say 'Yes'" and "One Moment Alone"-which are memorable...
...Pops Orchestra, under Arthur Fiedler, will present the following program in Symphony Hall tonight: Military Polonaise Chopin-Glazounov "Midsummer Night's Dream" Overture Mendelssohn "Rosamunde" Entr'acte Schubert "Carmen" Fantasia Bizet Sonatine Transatlantique Tansman "Pavane for a Dead Infanta" Ravel "Nutcrackor" Ballet Suite Tchaikovsky "Show Boat" Selections Kern "Blue Danube" Waltz Strauss Fifth Hungarian Dance Brahms
...chiefly famed for its frankfurters, is ranked as a big company by virtue of its sales ($46,000,000 last year) if not for its earnings ($131,298 last year). President is Frank Martin Firor, 58, who became Gobel's head in 1927 when it merged with George Kern Inc., for which he was working. Founder Adolf Gobel died four years...