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...Robin Hood Dell Orchestra for the concert last week. At intermission, Arrau gulped down gobs of milk, afterwards wolfed a big steak. Said he: "It turned out not just a joke." This week, after hopping up to the Berkshires for a concert at Tanglewood, and to Manhattan for a Lewisohn Stadium appearance, he will take his first vacation in five years...
...weather has been a wet blanket to big-time outdoor symphonies this summer. In Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell, 50% of the scheduled performances have been called on account of rain. In Manhattan, about one out of four of the famed Lewisohn Stadium concerts have been canceled, and another 16 of the scheduled 53 were umbrella nights, when the orchestra blew and fiddled but the cash register only tinkled. Last week the biggest deficit ($80.000) in Lewisohn's 28 years faced its promoter, grey-haired, peppy Mrs. Charles S. (Minnie) Guggenheimer, 63, the matriarch of New York...
Bankers & Budgets. Minnie Guggenheimer, who has had to make up losses every year before, is rich, and she knows people who are. In fact, she started the concerts for World War I doughboys by persuading a friend and distant inlaw, the late millionaire-banker Adolph Lewisohn, to lend her the football stadium he built for the City College of New York. She also lined up the Lewisohn family as her biggest financial contributors...
...chief personal indulgence is speechmaking, which Lewisohn audiences have come to love. Wearing full-masted, brightly-hued hats which make her seem larger than her 5 ft. 2 in., she climbs to the Stadium shell and chats spontaneously with her audiences whenever she feels the urge...
...just six capable dancers - Irina Baronova, Andre Eglevsky, Rosella Hightower, Yurek Lazowsky, Kathryn Lee, Anna Istomina -trained to perform in quick succession the twelve to 16 short ballets he will crowd into each program. In a pre-tour show at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium last week, the Highlights company danced against a black backdrop; in Montreal, where the audience surrounded the platform, the decor consisted of eight well-potted palms...