Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better. It might have been noted in the first place that Gatti was an ardent Wagnerite then, as he is today, He had made a specialty of Wagner at La Scala. And he had brought with him a prodigious Wagnerian conductor in Toscanini. And then he was a first-rate master of economical management, the sort of man who would shrink a deficit. It did not take the clever business men on the Board of Directors long to observe that. They supported him vigorously. With such sure support an impresario is in a favorable position to deal with singers...
...company by a few famous and favorite singers. He gave emphatic attention to orchestra, chorus, ballet, production. The Metropolitan had always enjoyed fine orchestra conducting. This Gatti sustained with Toscanini and then with his present German conductor, Arthur Bodanzky. In Moranzoni, Papi and Haesselmans he has now a first-rate set of Italian and French conductors. Under Giulio Setti the Metropolitan chorus became a model. The productions ? Samuel Thewman is the present stage manager ? have kept to a high standard...
Money has been perceptibly easier. Ordinarily this fact would possess considerable significance as to next Spring's business. With our excessive gold supply, however, it is safe to assume only that the declining interest rate should mean rising bond prices...
...there are a number of artists as well known in this tiny, individual field as Valentino and Talmadge are to cinema fans. Perhaps you are able to afford one of the Valentines of the bookplate world - perhaps Cousin Letty offers to do it for a Christmas present. At any rate, sooner or later you have your bookplates and spend long, gummy evenings putting them in the books...
...line, to make it return through curvilinear space to its original position. Or if this should be beyond the grasp of those who do not comprehend Einstein, the German may be trying to keep the natural resources out of French hands by using their forests for pulp. At any rate when the printing of the mark has come to a period, one may wonder whether, "if seven maids with seven brooms should sweep for seven years," they could ever clean up the mess...