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When Roxy's Gang went touring last spring (TIME, Feb. 9, 1931), one of its stands was Omaha. One of its leading entertainers was Soprano Beatrice Belkin, a pretty, sprightly little girl from Lawrence, Kans. Little Joseph Littau, the bright, bushy-haired conductor of the Omaha Symphony, went eagerly to meet Beatrice Belkin, seized her in a wholehearted embrace. Natives of Omaha who witnessed their salute were taken slightly aback but they knew that Conductor Littau had also been a protégé of Roxy (S. J. Rothafel), assumed that perhaps theatrefolk in the East acted that...
Last autumn Conductor Littau cleared himself by announcing that he and Beatrice Belkin had been married. Last week Beatrice Belkin refused several engagements in the East and, instead, soloed with what she now calls her hometown orchestra. This gracious attitude merited, and got, a gracious reception. Beatrice Belkin never roused the welkin; her voice is shrill, rather thin. But the Omaha audience packed into Joslyn Art Memorial Auditorium called her back time & again. Omaha's critics fell in line with the public. The city has had to struggle to maintain its orchestra. The Press never voices any criticism which...
...Symphony with Karl Krueger. Next week will begin the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Artur Rodzinski, the Minneapolis Symphony with Henri Verbrugghen, the St. Louis Symphony with Vladimir Golschmann, the Milwaukee Philharmonic with Frank Laird Waller. Rochester, N. Y. with different guest conductors, Portland, Ore. (Willem van Hoogstraten), Omaha (Joseph Littau) and Syracuse (Vladimir Shavitch) save their openings for November...
Omaha will have Joseph Littau, conductor at Roxy's cinemansion in Manhattan, to succeed Sandor Harmati...
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