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...Louisiana's onetime lotteries. Unkind are pictures of bewhiskered, bejuleped col- onels. As every Louisianan knows, New Orleans can boast many an active, enterprising apostle of sound finance. One such journeyed to Philadelphia last week to address fellow-bankers on bedrock principles of their profession. No dodderer, no lotterer, Rudolf S. Hecht is the able president of the Hibernia Bank & Trust Co. of New Orleans. German-born Banker Hecht has become so substantial a support of Louisiana industry that the Times-Picayune gratefully hailed him as New Orleans' most constructive citizen. As a reward he won the Times-Picayune trophy...
...some of those birds, and on his way to photograph other jungle life, for the New York Zoological Park, Curator Lee S. Crandall left Manhattan last week. At Port Moresby, Papua, he will make up his field expedition of habitants and natives. Particular end of his quest is the "Rudolf," largest and most gorgeous bird of paradise. When it is not drifting between twilit trees, it hangs upside down, its feathers swaying about like the chiffon drapes of a young girl's party dress...
...musical work in America. . . ." The five: Olga Samarov, onetime critic (1926-27) New York Evening Post, concert pianist, divorced wife and friend to Leopold Stokowski; Leopold (Anton Stanislaw) Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, by some able critics considered the world's best symphony conductor after Toscanini; Rudolf Ganz, Swiss pianist, composer, onetime (1921-26) conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; Sergei Alexandrovitch Koussevitzky, Russian conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Friedrich Wilhelm August Stock. Rhenish composer, conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra...
...Earl of Kerhill's younger brother. He comes to the U. S. bad lands to save his family's honor. He marries a squaw to save her life. When he is about to return to the vacated earldom, the squaw commits suicide. Numerous songs, concocted by Charles Rudolf Friml whose efforts crowned The Vagabond King, are thoroughly inspiriting. These, together with gay and gaudy costumes, clever settings, an energetic and willing chorus, make The White Eagle satisfactory if somewhat grandiloquent entertainment...
...opera at Covent Garden, presents Britain with its only season of truly "grand" opera.* Some two-thirds of the Syndicate's singers are well known to U. S. audiences for they come from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York?Maria Jeritza, Nanny Larsen-Todsen, Lauritz Melchior, Rudolf Laubenthal and many another...