Word: patronized
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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...
...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...
...Heartiest congratulations," cabled Kaye Don, who last fortnight acquired a U. S. bride but lost the backing of his patron, Charles Cheers Wakefield, Lord Wakefield. Chairman of C. C. Wakefield & Co. Ltd. (lubricants), the aging Lord has for years subsidized Britons speeding by air, land and sea. Far-hopping James Allan Mollison and the late Sir Henry Segrave were his proteges. Now he thinks the publicity not worth the outlay...
Jean Jacques, who used to lie dreaming in a tiny skiff, lulled by the lap of the waves and comforted by the steady, reliable warmth of the sun, is the patron saint of an agnostic Vagabond. For the Vagabond, too, would pass many a quiet hour soothed by the opiate of day dreams, as did romantic Rousseau, but he is condemned to live in a climate too harsh, and an age to unkind. Therefore, he consoles himself by patient procrastination, by doing the things he ought not do, and by leaving undone the things he ought...