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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WILL APPRECIATE IT IF YOU WOULD MAKE IT CONVENIENT TO ATTEND A SMALL CONFERENCE IN MY OFFICE ON THURSDAY MORNING AT 10 O'CLOCK TO DISCUSS MATTERS CONNECTED WITH MY STATEMENT OF LAST SATURDAY...
...Last week one of proud Toscanini's concerts with Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra was attended by proud Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony, who went backstage to congratulate Toscanini during intermission. The Italian is nearsighted. He peered blankly at his famed Polish visitor, who said...
Seats. Predictions of a "quiet" market for 1930 may mean a safer market but will also mean lower commission earnings by members of exchanges. Foreshadow of this decline in earnings was the sale last week of a New York Stock Exchange seat for $350,000, $144,000 under the price paid for the last seat sold. A New York Curb Exchange seat sold last week was $100,000 under the previous price, bringing to its seller but $150,000. On the basis of these new prices the 1,375 Stock Exchange seats have a valuation of $481,250,000, while...
...this month in Italy a royal decree announced that Milan's famed La Scala opera would henceforth be under government control, that a Fascist commissioner would dictate its programs, the selection of artists. Many there were in Italy and the U. S. who linked this news with the resignation last fall of Arturo Toscanini after nine years as La Scala director. He, it is said, foresaw the Fascist rule. He, it is known, can brook no interference with a musical enterprise under his direction...
Early this fall the music world worried while Ignace Jan Paderewski, 69, underwent an operation for appendicitis in Switzerland (TIME, Oct. 7). It marveled when he later announced that he would keep U. S. concert engagements scheduled for the winter and spring. Last week, however, he cabled his U. S. manager, George Engles...