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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they grow old they swap anecdotes about him; if they become Trustees they like to see him prosper in his fashion. But the research professors, who sometimes regard the civilizing of students as a vague, even faintly vulgar waste of time, are the darlings of their erudite colleagues and often of the president, who feels the responsibility of keeping the University in a good competitive position intellectually. Between the two groups occasionally there is mild academic friction. Last week at Yale there was strife...
Ladies who sing Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin are heavy, Teutonic, have small flare for acting. That a knight should trouble to rescue them is often unbelievable. But at the new Chicago Civic Opera House last week an audience was pleasurably surprised. The Elsa .who came pathetically before the king was slender, lovely, of exceeding grace. That her voice was commensurately light mattered little to those who watched her. She used it as skillfully as she did her hands...
...when Franz Joseph Haydn's Farewell symphony had its first performance before Hungarian Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, some one had the idea of keeping the audience in darkness, giving each musician a candle of his own to snuff at the concert's close. In Cincinnati Conductor Fritz Reiner often exhibits a penchant for the historical.* Last week he attempted to duplicate the first candlelit concert but modernized methods boggled the illusion. The candles were electric, behaved accordingly. 'Cellist Desire Danczowski's flame flickered, threatened to quit before the end; 'Cellist Walter Hermann's balked when...
Stock companies are often pitiful, struggling organizations. Their managers bear incalculable woes. One of these was voiced last week by George J. Houtain, counsel for the Theatrical Stock Managers Association. Declaring in a letter to the American Federation of Musicians that prohibitive union wages and regulations had made music scarce in stock productions, he added: "If a phonograph needed operating behind scenes, you wouldn't allow the manager or one of the company to turn it on or off. . . . It had to be done by a union musician at a full week's wage, and he wasn...
Though Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston (1706), he settled in Philadelphia, often visited Manhattan, spent some years in England, traveled on the Continent, reached the peak of his career in France. It is not inappropriate that this comprehensive and readable biography of the first U. S. world-citizen has been written by a Frenchman...