Word: maestro
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...Chicago socialites, Postal Telegraph called the service "irregular," forbade it. Conductor Arturo Toscanini announced that he would personally acknowledge all contributions for the Save-the-Philharmonic drive sent to him at Manhattan's Astor Hotel. Campaign leaders wanted to handle the replies at their professional headquarters but the maestro's mail has become his consuming interest. He cuts engagements short, rushes home between rehearsals to see if more letters have come. Those he receives he spreads out on his cherished piano, hitherto sacred to his mementoes of Wagner and Verdi. In a Manhattan court appeared thread bare Emma...
...TRUE TO BE GOOD, VILLAGE WOOING, & ON THE ROCKS-George Bernard Shaw-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). The three latest plays of the Old Maestro. MOSTLY CANALLERS-Walter D. Edmonds-Little, Brown ($2.50). Short stories by an author whose claim to the Erie Canal is undisputed. FOOLS RUSH IN-Anne Green-Dutton ($2.50). Another frothily innocuous yarn by the sister of a morbidly good writer. THE MAKING OF AMERICANS-Gertrude Stein-Harcourt, Brace ($3). First U. S. edition (abridged) of Gertrude Stein's unreadable magnum opus...
...Plus vite, Maestro, plus vite! Je ne suis pas malade." Nine-year-old Ruth Slenczynski was rehearsing with the Symphony in San Francisco, her home city, and the tempo taken by Conductor Bernardino Molinari, 54, displeased her. Molinari kept his temper at rehearsal but last week's performance was too much for him. The Concerto, Beethoven's First, had ended and he had left the stage. But not little Ruth Slenczynski. She stayed firmly planted on her piano stool, tossing off encore after encore even after Richard M. Tobin came on stage to present her with a string...
Philadelphia's fair-haired maestro discovered Rodzinski nine years ago in Warsaw, a quiet, determined young man of 30 who was conducting at the opera house instead of following the law career for which his parents had educated him. Stokowski invited Rodzinski to be his assistant in Philadelphia. He stayed there four years, then went to Los Angeles which began to have its financial worries last winter when William Andrews Clark Jr. announced that he could support the Or chestra for only one more season (TIME, Oct. 30). Los Angeles like Cleveland needed a new conductor for the sake...
...striking contrast were Kate Smith, Washington, D. C.'s tremendous contribution to radio, and that other Washington musician, small, blue-eyed William Hartman Woodin, Secretary of the Treasury. Young William Curtis Bok, who presided at the speakers' table, .asked Maestro Stokowski and his men to play Mr. Woodin's Covered Wagon suite. The Secretary of the Treasury beamed modestly throughout the performance, then made a little speech: "When I heard my poor music so wonderfully played by Prince Stokowski and his men, I thought, 'There is music in the Treasury and, I hope, harmony...