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Manhattan was just about the halfway mark in its schedule of 56 concerts in 57 days. Almost everywhere the San Franciscans have played to capacity audiences. Their biggest drawing card was their 72-year-old conductor, twinkle-eyed little Pierre ("Papa") Monteux, who was Serge Koussevitzky's predecessor in Boston 23 years ago. New York had seen him as guest conductor, but never with the orchestra he has led with distinction for twelve years. Some Manhattan critics found his orchestra weak in the strings and noisy in the brasses, but all praised Monteux' skilled, sensitive conducting...
Across the Hudson, in The Bronx, another bartender named Alfred Lagan searched his twelve-year-old daughter's round eyes and read a $20,000 message which he decoded thus: "O.K., papa, it's yours for the family [of nine], to do what you think you should." Elsewhere in the U.S., some 200 citizens shook, stomped, cried or set 'em up with sudden violence...
From the first, Elizabeth's father and mother (Papa and Mummie) were determined to keep their daughter's life as free from the shadow of the Crown as possible. But in Britain, as in most of the Empire, Princess Lilibet was the private darling of every household. Her every gurgled word, new tooth, prank or bright saying was reported and syndicated to the farthest outposts. Did Lilibet have a new camera? The press promptly drooled: "She has already taken some quite creditable photos since she mastered the art of getting her subjects into focus...
...Papa Capra, who runs an oyster stand in Cannes, brought home broken crates to make frames for Edouard's pictures. He also did all he could to keep his son from getting a big head. "Edouard must not be spoiled, either by the love of money or by the influence of others," he carefully explained. "That is what Bonnard told us. We can give our son all he needs...
...assisted dear papa in cutting up a little...