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Right from the start of the NBC Symphony's first transcontinental tour, the maestro had seemed different. Instead of the usual dignified and photographer-shy Toscanini peeping out from under a rolled-brim black fedora, newsreels showed the warm, shining face and cheery handwaves of a man who looked almost as if he were out after the corn-belt vote. There was no letdown in his musicmaking, as sell-out audiences found, everywhere he conducted his orchestra. But by last week many a spot in the U.S. was getting a treat that most New Yorkers never get: the warming...
...strolled the streets hatless, admiring the colonial architecture while other tourists and townspeople admired him. In New Orleans he asked his chauffeur to stop the car so he could hear the jazz throbbing out of the bistros. In Austin, Tex. even his musicians got a surprise. Their usually dapper maestro, for the first time within memory, rehearsed them in shirtsleeves...
There seemed to be not a dull moment anywhere for Maestro Ariuro Toscanini, 83, and his barnstorming NBC Symphony Orchestra. In Dallas, a cloudburst drenched 4,600 people just at concert time. Women hiked up their long evening dresses and men peeled off their shoes and socks and waded through deep puddles to get to the Fair Park Auditorium. Next day, Toscanini's son Walter conked a Los Angeles newspaper photographer with a movie camera for popping a flashbulb too close to the Maestro as they stepped off a plane...
Tipped off by his 20-year-old grandson, Walfredo, touring Maestro Arturo Toscanini, 83, surprised a cheering, stomping Richmond audience of 5,000 with a virtuoso performance of Dixie. What did the world's greatest conductor think of the song? Said Toscanini: "Very exciting...
...drill's end each day he dismissed a thoroughly exhausted cast -including Metropolitan Opera Baritones Giuseppe Valdengo (Falstaff) and Frank Guarrera (Ford), Contralto Cloe Elmo (Dame Quickly), Mezzo-Soprano Nan Merriman (Mistress Page) and Soprano Herva Nelli (Mistress Ford). But as they dragged themselves home, the inexhaustible maestro, 40 years the senior of the eldest of them, tramped out with a fresh and fearsome eye to rehearse his weekly NBC Symphony programs...