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...other Pacific Coast orchestra has a dependable backer. President Jacob Bertha Levison of the San Francisco Musical Association is not rich enough to support an orchestra and he would prefer playing his flute at home to wrestling any longer with deficits. In Portland this autumn players in the symphony are donating 10% of their salaries to help make the season possible. The Seattle Symphony will give only five concerts under dreamy British Basil Cameron whose contract was not renewed at the end of last season in San Francisco...
There are two able young routine conductors in San Francisco now: Russian Issai Dobrowen and British Basil Cameron. Jacob Levison, 69-year-old insurance man, as head of the Musical Association, probably gives more than anyone else towards the orchestra's support. President Levison played the flute himself once in an amateur symphonic band. He staunchly advocates music as a hobby for businessmen. Prominent businessmen who were drafted to boost the $175,000 campaign starting this week included Bankers Mortimer Fleishhacker and William Henry Crocker, Sugar-broker Wallace McKinney Alexander, Chamber of Commerceman Leland Cutter. Robert Watt Miller, able...
...petty cliques have hindered the development of the San Francisco orchestra. In 1915 when bald, bearded Alfred Hertz went there to conduct, friends of social, correct Henry Hadley, his predecessor, went so far as to accuse him of being pro-German.- Hertz had a good friend in Jacob Bertha Levison, president of the Musical Association which sponsors the orchestra, but there were potential patrons who could not forget that Jews were in command. There was anti-Hertz feeling throughout his long, able administration (1915-30). Without it he might have been persuaded to withdraw his resignation. He likes San Francisco...
...Susan's hand, rescued them by giving Dick a job but put Susan in a dangerous spot by sending him to a distant factory and keeping him there. Susan successfully repulsed Villain Bulgin's ponderous advances but gradually fell a victim to a rich young Jew, Harry Levison. Bulgin discovered her secret, vengefully wrote an anonymous letter to Dick which brought him racing home. Susan admitted everything; Dick rushed off to kill Levison. He saw Levison's father instead. A few minutes after he had left, old Levison was discovered dead on his office floor. Dick...
Dartmouth's Marsters was mastered by Yatz Levison of Northwestern to whose efforts Northwestern's 27-6 victory was largely...