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...them go on to college: 85% of them get by the College Boards at the first try. Riverdale musicians give a concert every year in Manhattan's Town Hall; until the war Riverdale boys toured Europe on bicycles. Two Riverdale boys, musicians' sons and themselves musicians, Leopold Mannes and Leopold Godowsky Jr., were pioneers in the development of color photography...
Similar means of extracting a living from journalism were those employed by Le Matin's Publisher Maurice Bunau-Varilla (whose brother started the Panama Canal). A classic case was Bunau-Varilla's campaign against Leopold II of Belgium, which stopped suddenly after special concessions were granted a Belgian Congo railway of which Bunau-Varilla was a director. In his later years the publisher became interested in a pharmaceutical formula known as Synthol. It was adopted first by the French Army. Later the Germans professed to need it in great quantities. When France fell, Le Matin was the first...
...product of Leopold Stokowski's 1940 pilgrimage to South America with his Youth Orchestra came to light this month: a pair of lively albums (Native Brazilian Music, Vols. 1 & 2; Columbia; 8 sides each) made in Rio by native groups under the platinum-haired maestro's guiding hand. Local orchestras play sambas (the best most danceable to date) and macumhas with dizzy cross rhythms. Pixinguingha, a 250-pound Negro medal winner of the Brazilian National Academy of Music, puts in some featherweight flute-playing. Two sides are emboladas: as folkish to Brazilians as Frankie and Johnny...
Representing the Junior Class are Robert R. Hackford, Joel M. Kane, and Vyv B. Mather, Sophomores chosen were Lawerence E. Cooke, Haskell Grodberg, Robert L. Leopold, F. William Reeb, Edwin J. Sommer, Jr., and William V. Suckle...
Music received its first special award when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences handed out its annual Oscars last week (see p. 68). The special award went to Conductor Leopold Stokowski, for "the creation of a new form of visualized music" in Walt Disney's Fantasia, and it highlighted both the growing influence of Hollywood as a music capital and Hollywood's increasing dependence on music. Other musician winners...