Word: patronized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike most such organizations, the Society boasts of no one patron who defrayed its new building's construction cost or who set up its comfortable endowment fund?an amount not for publication. There have been many contributors, most of them small. But much came from such potent capitalists as the Messrs. Charles Burrall Pike (the Society's president) and Potter Palmer, the late Julius Rosenwald, Vincent Bendix, Joy Morton. Director for the past five years has been professorial L. Hubbard Shattuck, who dislikes his first name, will not reveal...
Fortnight ago Los Angeles attempted to express its appreciation of Patron Clark. Important citizens, including Mayor John Clinton Porter, gathered in Pershing Square across from the Auditorium. Laudatory speeches were made. Mrs. Leafie Sloan-Orcutt, an imposing grey-haired dowager representing the Los Angeles Philharmonic Woman's Committee, pulled a silken cord, revealed a bronze Beethoven in long frockcoat, baggy trousers, hands clasped characteristically behind his back. Philharmonic musicians, who gave the statue in Patron Clark's honor, sealed their gift with a stirring performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
...opening concert last week nothing affected the audience so deeply as Richard Strauss's Death and Transfiguration which Conductor Artur Rodzinski placed on the program as a memorial to Patron Clark's son, William Andrews III, who was killed last spring in an airplane crash. The orchestra, the audience knew, was Clark's second son. He founded it in 1919, trailed it on its tours, in true paternal fashion made no complaint even when it ran into debt last year to the tune...
...Patron Clark's father, the late fierce-whiskered Senator from Montana, taught his son to spend liberally. The elder Clark built a 130-room house on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, equipped it with a $3,000,000 art collection, a $120,000 gold dinner service. Senator Clark was a mule-skinner before he made his copper fortune. Son William had earlier advantages, took to them more quietly. He was a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Virginia, acquired a love for books which has led to one of the most important private collections in the world...
...also announced that Conductor Leopold Stokowski wanted an off-year to perfect a new form of "drama with music" for 1933-34. The Curtis-Bok fortune is far, far from collapse but Mrs. Bok has the expensive Curtis Institute on her hands. If in the next few months another patron for Philadelphia's opera appears, her friends suspect that she will not be sorry...