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Walter Hendl first started waving his hands in front of an orchestra in 1939, when he won a Curtis Institute conducting fellowship with Fritz Reiner. In 1944 he was discharged from two years of Army service, during which he had led a dance band, the Jive Bombers. In the next year he wrote the music for a successful Broadway show, Dark of the Moon, and went to work as assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. Impressed by his work in New York, the trustees of the Dallas orchestra offered him their conductorship...
...night audience [would] be secondary to that on the stage." General Manager Edward Johnson had scheduled an opener that was hard to beat: the late Richard Strauss's sure-fire Der Rosenkavalier, with a cast of "unusual interest," directed by the Met's most brilliant conductor, Fritz Reiner. But last week, when the great night rolled around again, the off stage competition was as usual just too tough...
Into the Pit. Some of the enthusiasm reached the pit. From the instant Conductor Reiner slashed the air with the downbeat, the Met's musicians plunged into the lush ripeness of Strauss's score like field mice set at fragrant cheddar. But little of the enthusiasm got through to the cast onstage...
...Elephants have a line which has opened large holes for fullback Rick Hudner; downfield blocking is probably the most crisp in House football, and halfbacks Pete Reiner and Jim Rossiter gallop around the ends in the style of Princeton's Dick Kazmaier. Cabot also can work in his own passing game, on those infrequent times when the ground attack bogs down. Defensively, the Elephants need only point to the puny scoring record of the opposition...
Probable Eliot starting lineup: le, Close; lt, Pugh; lg, Cowen; c, Hull; rg, Cowles; rt, Guild; re, Cox; qb, Cabot; rh, Rossiter; lh, Reiner; fb, Hudner...