Word: sokoloffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Zola, in the opening scenes, is the son of a middle-class French family, living in writer's poverty in a Paris garret. He shares both the garret and a single pair of trousers with Painter Paul Cezanne (Vladimir Sokoloff). One day Zola listens to the story of a girl of the Paris streets, sees in it the material for a novel and writes his first great success, Nana (a tale with which Producer Samuel Goldwyn and beauteous Actress Anna Sten had less success 54 years later...
Married. Nikolai Sokoloff, 50, director of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Music Project, longtime (1918-33) conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra; and Mrs. Ruth Haller Ottaway, 50, chairman of the National Council of Women; in Manhattan...
...Nicolai Sokoloff had led the Cleveland Orchestra since its founding...
...Nikolai Sokoloff, national director of the Federal Music Project, is to conduct an augmented orchestra of 125 WPA musicians in the Opera House on Sunday evening. The program consists of Weber's Overture to "Euryanthe", Brahms's first Symphony, Loeffler's "Pagan Poem" with Heinrich Gebhard, pianist, as soloist, Romheld's Minuet, and the "Sailors' Dance" from "The Red Poppy" by Gliere. While the concert may not have the technical finish of some of those given by our established orchestra, it does nevertheless merit attention...
Last week Works Progress Administration's Music Director Nikolai Sokoloff, onetime conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, reported on what he had done so far with $7,641,814 of Federal funds allocated to his project. To WPA's payroll were transferred 15,639 players, singers, composers, teachers, librarians, copyists, arrangers, tuners, music-binders from non-musical relief jobs. "Hundreds of musicians," reported Director Sokoloff, "came with swollen, calloused fingers, with their lips stiff and chapped from unaccustomed toil in inclement weather." Since December WPA had formed 163 concert orchestras, 51 bands, 15 chamber-music ensembles, 22 choruses...