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...Individualiy by prima donna conductors can be carried too far and our remarks on the Mozart G Minor (as done by Toscanini) are applicable here: Excessive speed does not make for clarity; drive on the conductor's part can and does obscure many of the details. Of the two readings, Toscanini or Furtwaengler, we unhesitatingly recommend the latter, for, while its vigorously dramatic and vital treatment may shatter your ideas on the interpretation of the symphony (the conventional Weingartner rendition, nevertheless, Furtwaengler's musical integrity stands unquestioned, aside from the fact that the recording is superior...
...merged with Kansas City's Peet Bros. (Crystal White Laundry Soap) in 1926, old Caleb Johnson was two years in his grave. When the combine took over the 122-year-old firm of Colgate & Co. (toothpaste, talcum powder, etc.) in 1928, his familiar green Palmolive Soap became the prima donna of the No. 2 U. S. soapmakers*-Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. Today more people the world over wash with Palmolive (retail price: 7? a cake) than with any other toilet-soap. One reason for that is the factory Caleb Johnson built in soap-loving Australia. Chief soap supplier...
Like sea captains, opera impresarios have to rule with an iron hand. And no crew that ever sailed the seas could be more unruly than the average opera house's staff of strutting tenors and temperamental prima donnas. Last week, just as the Metropolitan Opera Company was launching a public drive for $1,000,000 to help buy and refit the aged opera house where it puts on its performances,* grey-haired, wiry General Manager Edward Johnson was faced with the first big mutiny of his career...
...swankest of the arts in 18th-Century London was Italian opera. Periwigged courtiers, who could not understand a word of it, raised their lace cuffs to applaud the ornate trilling of swivel-voiced prima donnas. Fashionable composers like Handel had to write their librettos in Italian. The Caruso of the period was the Italian eunuch-Francesco Bernardi Senesino, whose misfortunate voice earned fabulous sums at London's Royal Academy of Music. Lustier London wits like Henry Fielding began poking fun at this artificial art, inveighed against London's "wanton, affected fondness for foreign musick," with its "squeaking recitatives...
...Richard Knight had a $200,000 bank account, was earning more than $80,000 a year. He specialized in sensational divorce cases. Not yet 30, Lawyer Knight lived in a suite at the St. Regis. He drove a Cadillac, had spent a week on the Riviera with a celebrated prima donna, boasted that he called Mrs. Vincent Astor by her first name...