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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guest conductor after another, with results that critics found scarcely an improvement on the Sundstrom era. But last week it sported a brand-new conductor, hoped this one was for keeps. This time the conductor was a man: pint-sized, cadaverous Izler Solomon (TIME, March 27). Mr. Solomon started by firing six women, cowed five more into resigning, added 15 new players. Chicago wits nicknamed the orchestra "Solomon and his Wives," "87 Girls and a Man." But when Solomon led his black-dressed musical harem through Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, Chicago critics agreed that a man was just what...
Like Dr. Neilson, Mr. Davis is an authority on English literature. Dr. Neilson's specialty is Shakespeare, Mr. Davis' Jonathan Swift. Mr. Davis was graduated from Oxford, was an artilleryman in World War I, taught at the University of Leeds and Cologne and for 16 years at University of Toronto before he went to Cornell last year. He remained a member of the Church of England but otherwise quickly became Americanized. He moved into an old colonial farmhouse, drove a car, played a good game of golf, joined a few clubs. Slim, fair and sandy-haired, he likes...
...Mr. Davis will come to Smith as soon as Cornell lets him go; meanwhile Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow* will continue as Smith's acting president. To Smith's girls, impatient to see their new prexy, Dr. Neilson last week reported that after considering 100 candidates the trustees had elected Mr. Davis "very enthusiastically." Said he: "In general personality and the scholarly and executive qualities that seemed to be demanded, Professor Davis proved to be just what we wanted...
While two 60-inch army searchlights played on Washington's Constitution Hall one night last week, a hand-picked crowd of 4,000 expectant Washingtonians filed in to see Director Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington under the auspices of the Capital's National Press Club. On hand were most of the U. S. Senate, about half of the House, three members of the Cabinet and most of Washington's 509 correspondents. They had heard about this story of a rather sappy young idealist, who in defeating a frame-up to oust him from...
...this publicity went, it did Mr. Smith Goes to Washington no harm at all. But there was a chance that the picture might get the Senatorial dander up to the danger point. The Neely Block-Booking Bill, now locked up in the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee, would prevent big movie producers from compelling exhibitors to book a whole list of pictures in order to get one on the list which they want. Hollywood would much prefer to have the Neely bill stay locked up. Last week irate Senators talked of getting...