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...Conductor Nikolai Sokolov of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, his wife (nee Marix) has said proudly: "Before he was twelve, my husband played in the orchestras of several Russian vaudeville companies that were better than the Chauve Souris." True to this honest origin, Mr. Sokolov is described as "playing poker?either stud or draw?when the boys come in for a game on a Saturday night, peel off their coats . . . and Mrs. Sokolov puts the coffee on to perk and fixes up a snack...
When the Third International Conference met at the Kremlin to choose a new president, Dictator Stalin snapped his whip and Nikolai Bukharin whom Stalin had already placed in the vice presidency was elected President. Bukharin is hand in glove with Stalin's policy of retrenchment in world revolutionary activities, but last week he was obliged to coddle the delegates by a fiery speech promising support of Chinese and Javanese Communists, the only Communist factions now actively embattled in their respective countries...
Docile, the Conference began by re-electing to the Praesidium, or "Standing Committee" of the Party, Joseph Stalin, "political boss of Soviet Russia,". and 36 of his henchmen-among them Premier Alexei Ivanovitch Rykov, War Minister K. E. Voroshilov, and Vice President Nikolai Bukharin of the Third International...
...Cleveland. Conductor Nikolai Sokoloy, recipient of high praise as visiting conductor in Manhattan's summer Stadium concerts, led the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra in a brilliant opening of the current season. Tall, dark, magnetic, he gave careful, rhythmic reading to Bach's Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue; continued with Brahms's First Symphony, in a full-throated interpretation; was clever, cacophonous, to suit Strauss's Don Juan; ended with his now familiar spellbinding performance of Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun. Again the city congratulated itself on the musicianly foresight and executive powers of Adella Prentiss Hughes, first U. S. woman organizer...
...Cleveland Orchestra, Nikolai Sokolov, conductor, will give 65 concerts beginning Oct. 21. Among the soloists will be Elsa Alsen, Alfred Cortot, Lucrezia Bori, Ruth Breton, John Charles Thomas, Respighi, Josef Szigeti, Dusolina Giannini, Efrem Zimbalist, Harold Bauer...