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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four years ago, the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and Arts was little more than a musical cafeteria where its 50 students could nibble at courses as they pleased. Established as a profit-making corporation, it had not made a profit in decades; it did not own a typewriter and did not really need one because its director could not afford a secretary...
...last week, cafeteria no longer, the Los Angeles Conservatory was serving up a carefully balanced musical diet. It also had a spruce new home, a roster of first-class names on its faculty and an accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Music on the office wall. L.A. was not yet as famous as Manhattan's Juilliard, Philadelphia's Curtis or Rochester's Eastman, but it had climbed up into their company as the first independent and accredited four-year music school on the West Coast...
...Oscar Wagner, onetime dean of the Juilliard Graduate School, who went to Los Angeles to help, put White's idea into whole tones: "The day is gone when all a fellow needed was a little talent, a velvet collar and long hair. Now he must have a more versatile education and that's what we're working toward...
Born. To Diana Wanger Anderson, 21, eldest daughter of Cinemactress Joan Bennett, and John Hardy Anderson, 31, aircraft-parts manufacturer: their first child (and first grandchild for 39-year-old Joan Bennett), a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Amanda. Weight...
...Los Angeles' Biltmore Hotel was rife last week with the easy slur of Southern accents. In the haze from their cigars, big cottonmen from the South gleefully watched pretty models step in & out of cotton garments, parade cotton bathing suits, evening gowns and house dresses nimbly converted from cotton feed bags. The National Cotton Council, for the first time since it was formed in 1938, was holding its annual convention in California...