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Thanks to Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., makers of Chesterfield cigarets, radio listeners, starting next Tuesday, will be able to hear the highest type of symphonic music every night of the week but Sunday for some time to come. The programs will be given by expensive Leopold Stokowski and 65 members of his peerless Philadelphia Orchestra, from 9 to 9:15 (E. S. T.). First night, Nov. 28: excerpts from Parsifal. Each Philadelphia Orchestraman will earn $12 per broadcast...
...Caballeros. Unable to divorce her insane husband Prince Francisco de Bourbon, Duke de Villafranca de los Caballeros, cousin of Alfonso XIII, for over 30 years she was Sir Basil's mistress, lived with him during her last years in the villa near Paris built by the late Leopold II, King of the Belgians, for his morganatic wife Baroness de Vaughan. Lady Zaharoff died...
...Prussian Academy of Music in Berlin. Great was the interest aroused by Schönberg's acceptance. He has upset conservative concertgoers more than any other modern composer. Philadelphia and New York have not forgotten the harrowing chromatics in Die Glückliche Hand, which Leopold Stokowski gave three years ago. The much talked-of Wozzeck, which the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company put on, is a Schönberg stepchild. His pupil Alban Berg wrote...
...strings. Rodzinski in return gave a performance of Brahms's First Symphony which became the musical talk of the town. New and exciting to Clevelanders was the way he often puts down his baton to shape the music with his bare hands, a mannerism he picked up from Leopold Stokowski...
Israel Edwin Leopold (Ed Wynn), president of Amalgamated Broadcasting System, organized last spring (after many postponements it began broadcasting in September), resigned his post. Announced reason: the discovery that he was a showman, not a businessman. Ota Gygi (Hun garian-born, onetime court violinist to Alfonso XIII) and Henry Goldman, businessman, who ran the company all summer while Mr. Wynn was in Hollywood, remain in charge. Ed Wynn became once more Texaco's broadcasting Fire Chief...