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Bearded British Maestro Sir Thomas Beecham and ex-German ex-Auto Tycoon Fritz von Opel (recently detained 16 days by the British at Gibraltar) landed in Manhattan from the same ship, each stating his belief that England's chances of victory seemed slim at the moment. Lamented Sir Thomas: "The fact is we've been a feebly governed people for the last ten years...
Died. Josef Alexander Pasternack, 58, bushy-haired symphonic and radio maestro; of heart disease, during a radio rehearsal; in Chicago. In order to avoid confusion with Cinema Producer Joe Pasternak, he always used his middle initial...
Last week the Moneywasters gave a dance. As usual, they did things up brown. This time they had Maestro Walter Barnes of Chicago and his Royal Creolians. Tickets in advance were 50?; on the spot, 65?. Negroes flocked to Natchez from Vicksburg, Centreville, Vidalia, Baton Rouge, even from New Orleans. Paid admissions: 557. The night was warm. Only way into the building was the front door; the Moneywasters had boarded the windows against peepers and gate-crashers. Tobacco smoke fogged the hall. Under the grey, dry Spanish moss which hung two feet above the dancers, the crowd on the floor...
Blonde, blue-eyed Sonia Maria Noel Stokowski, 18, daughter of famed Maestro Leopold Stokowski and his exwife, Pianist Olga Samaroff Stokowski, announced her plan to enter summer stock, become a great actress. Said she: "You've got to do something in life, you can't just sit around...
...third well-known composer, academic Ernst von Dohnányi, on musical pedestals. Enormously shy, Bartók lives in Budapest in extreme quiet with his wife and son. He has an almost inaudible voice, dislikes conversation, has one shy-rude trait. When addressed (in European manner) as maestro or maitre, he replies curtly: "My name is Mr. Bartók." Vigorously anti-Nazi, he will not allow his music, if he can help it, to be broadcast within earshot of Germany or Italy...