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...audiences had not behaved that way when he played Beethoven to them eight years ago. They had regarded him as cold, academic; his programs seemed too heavy. Back he went to his pupils in Berlin who revere him the way Elman and Heifetz revere the late great Leopold Auer.* Criticized for having no show pieces on his programs, Auer once remarked that he left all those to his pupils. Schnabel's pupils play all the modern music they like but Schnabel has stuck to Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven. Says he: "Of course, contemporary music should be heard...
...Queen Victoria had herself drugged with chloroform to soothe the labor of bearing Prince Leopold in 1853, and Princess Beatrice in 1857. Her gestures popularized the uses of chloroform, ether and nitrous oxide as anesthetics. Dr. John Snow (1813-58) who induced Queen Victoria to take the chloroform, had developed methods of administering anesthetics throughout an entire operation. For that the anesthetists last week saluted his memory...
...takes showmanship nowadays to keep even so great an orchestra as the Philadelphia Symphony afloat. But showman-ship is just what Conductor Leopold ("Prince") Stokowski has a great deal of. His blond mop waving proudly, his piercing eye darting sharply among dowagers and debutantes, he was the stage manager of a show one evening last week in Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. The evening's serious business was to auction off 600 unsold season concert tickets but before the hammer began falling and donors began digging down, a rare collection of talent was exhibited...
Guards in the State Penitentiary at Joliet, Ill. had to carry two murderers named Sullivan and Scott to solitary confinement when, too drunk to walk, they bellowed "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" in a cellhouse. Present but sober were Murderers Nathan Leopold, prison librarian, and Richard Loeb, who conducts a correspondence school for convicts. They said they had "just dropped in." were excused...
...impressed upon her at the beginning of her career when a New York manager made her change her name from Hickenlooper (she was the daughter of a San Antonio army officer). She felt it even more in the years when she was making her career and Conductor Leopold Stokowski. to whom she was married for twelve years, was making his. Eight years ago Mine Samaroff fell over a trunk, tore a ligament in her right arm, had to five up concert work. She became critic of the New York Evening Post only to be criticized for constantly presenting the musician...