Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a Baltimore store, Thomas Fortune Ryan went to work as an errand-boy for $3 a week; with William Collins Whitney he was a broker in Wall Street; with King Leopold II of Belgium he developed the diamond fields of the Congo Free State; and with a fortune estimated between one and five hundred million dollars, last week, he died...
...Philadelphia last week Conductor Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski continued to discipline his audience (TIME, Nov. 12). At an afternoon concert he gave stragglers just one minute, 58 seconds to find their seats, then had the doors closed. Hereafter Philadelphia Orchestra concerts will begin promptly and nothing will interrupt...
...early as 1914 there was talk of Jeritza's coming to the U. S. Otto Kahn had heard her in Europe. So had Mr. Gatti. But then came the War. Vienna stayed German and the Metropolitan Opera went Italian. Jeritza was married-to Baron Leopold Popper de Podraghy,* one of the wealthiest industrialists of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, turned soldier for his Emperor. She herself sang at the front, worked in a hospital. Not until the fall of 1921 did she come to the Metropolitan...
Conductor Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski has a way of taking his Philadelphia audiences to account. Last week they annoyed him by coming late to a concert, clattering down the aisles, banging down seats. He stopped the music, wheeled on them: "Please, please don't make those noises. They are very distracting. We work hard all week to give you this music, but I cannot do my best without your aid. I'll give you my best or I won't give you anything. It is for you to choose...
Three years ago Musical America offered a $3,000 prize for the best symphonic work submitted by a U. S. composer. Last spring Judges Walter Damrosch, Serge Koussevitzky, Leopold Stokowski, Alfred Hertz and Frederick Stock voted the prize to Ernest Bloch for a symphony named America. In late December, almost simultaneously, the five conductor-judges will give America its first performances?Dec. 20 in Manhattan and San Francisco, Dec. 21 in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago. Other major orchestras may lift their voices in unison...