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Conductor Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra was censured by many last week for ousting nine of his players. FourClarinetist Paul Alemann, Horn-player Otto Henneberg, Violinist Marius Thor, Oboeist Edward Raho?had been with the orchestra from 18 to 26 years. Probable reason for their dismissal: too old, stale...
...Wynn (Edwin Leopold) lives with his wife and child in Great Neck, L. I. The son of a Philadelphia milliner, he acted as a boy in a barnstorming troupe. His father had other ideas, sent him to the University of Pennsylvania, then out on the road to sell hats. But the son revolted, became a low-comedy vaudevillian, remained one for eleven years. In 1914 he was given a part in the Ziegfeld Follies. Other Wynn appearances were in The Perfect Fool, Grab Bag, Manhattan Mary...
...production committee is as follows stage manager, R. J. Strauss '32; program manager, J. L. Abbot '31; property manager, Leopold Beckwith '32; production manager, D. A. Nathans '30; assistant production manager, H. C. Freedman...
BIZET'S L'ARLESIENNE, excerpts by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra (Victor, $6.50)-The warm, instantly appealing music made for Daudet's play. Conductor Stokowski plays it brilliantly. Operagoers will recognize bits borrowed to make the Carmen ballet...
...which stood in the orchestra. A few of the curious investigated afterward, discovered that the cabinet was a variety of the Theremin ether-wave instrument (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928, et seq.) being used as a regular, recognized member of the orchestra. The new instrument was made especially for Conductor Leopold Stokowski, called a Thereminophone and differed from the better known RCA Theremin in that its tone is controlled by a fingerboard (rather than by waves of the hand), its volume by a pedal. Carl Zeise, regular Philadelphia 'cellist who operates it, is one of several able Theremin soloists-among...