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...boards of directors and impresarios were either doleful or delighted over prospects for 1938-39. Deepest dumps were in Portland, Ore., where the 27-year-old Portland Symphony, in spite of assiduous nursing by Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten, gave its last concert and disbanded for lack of funds. Loudest whooping came from Manhattan, where NBC officials announced proudly that famed Maestro Toscanini had signed up for another three years of expensive winter symphonic broadcasts...
Thus last week wrote RFC Chairman Jesse Jones to inform the nation's banks that RFC's 32 offices (with about $1,500,000,000 in the kitty) are once more open for business. The riotous Little Businessmen's Conference in Washington last month called loudest for increased credit facilities. Last week Jesse Jones revealed that the day after Franklin Roosevelt untied RFC's purse strings, it received loan applications from 200 small businessmen. RFC now welcomes such applications no matter how small...
Last fortnight Hollywood's loudest mouthpiece. Editor Martin Quigley's Motion Picture Herald, announced that the industry did not intend to continue paying reviewing charges to such a fickle outfit. As proof that Hollywood means what it says Editor Quigley cited In Old Chicago, which had the board's cachet, did not choose...
...Record. If Tommy proves as big as his job, J. David Stern Sr. will be able to turn nearly all his attention to his New York Post, which in four years he has boosted from 86,000 circulation to nearly 300,000, by tooting one of the loudest horns on the Roosevelt bandwagon and by giving away (for coupons and cash) a steady stream of dictionaries, atlases, Dickens' works and medical advice books...
George Gershwin, Louis Gruenberg, John Alden Carpenter, most famous of U. S. nationalist composers, have avoided jazz symphonies, contenting themselves with writing rhapsodies, operas, ballets, tone-poems. Loudest pooh-poohing of their efforts has come, not from high-brow critics and musicians, but from swing and hot jazz fans who find this symphonic jazz stiff and imitative...