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...musicians and three conductors amount to $438,861. Receipts are estimated at $545.826. Neither Mr. Mackay nor Mr. Flagler felt able to help finance the orchestra this season. Bank loans made it possible. The Leipzig Gcivamlhaits Orchestra is older. *When Toscanini sailed last spring for Europe a little pile of broken spectacles was found in the back of his closet...
...Orange, N. J., Artist Ross by preference paints the jigsaw-tortured mansions which solid New Jersey citizens built and lived in during the last lush years of the 19th Century. Besides the New Jersey pictures, Artist Ross last week showed a series of swift state highways, a snarling pile of junk, several melancholy landscapes, a picture of "The Rocks," Mrs. Henry Clews's Newport residence...
...CRUCIFIXION OF LIBERTY-Alexander Kerensky-Day ($2.75). The onetime head of the Russian Government gives his side of the case, not without dust and heat, adding one more stone to the defensive-memoir pile...
...extensively and lived very quietly, registering at such eminently respectable institutions as the University Union in Paris. They had a small apartment in the Rue de la Chaussee 'd'Antin near the Opera. Into that apartment French detectives broke last December to find, so they said, a pile of strange documents hidden behind a bureau, 19,000 francs in cash, and a chronometer and two magnifying glasses bound together.* Crying loudly that they had been framed by the French counterespion age service, the famed Denxieme Bureau, the Switzes were led off to separate jails, he to La Sante...
...last year the outlook for Stewart-Warner was dismal indeed. Last week the company published its annual report for 1933 revealing a thoroughgoing house cleaning from products to personnel. While Stewart-Warner was slowly slipping, one of its subsidiaries, which is better known under its own name, continued to pile up profits. Alemite Corp. now makes lubricating systems for 99% of all automobiles produced. Many of Alemite's gadgets were developed by a tall, thin, long-nosed inventor named Oscar Ulysses Zerk, who once served in the Austrian army. When Alemite took over certain of Mr. Zerk...