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...orgy of community singing and bandplaying, polished off with a prodigious display of fireworks. Though rival newspapers enthusiastically ignored the festival, it was a thumping spectacle such as visitors at fairs love to see. Some 85,000 spectators vigorously applauded as Bandmaster Arthur Pryor directed massed bands through favorite Sousa marches. They were awed by a rendition of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture eked out by booming cannon and skirling fireworks to represent the burning of Moscow, delighted by a flaming 40-ft. portrait in fireworks of Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...Worthy of a Roxy was the Chrysler exhibit: 35 salesmen and seven girls dressed in creamy flannels; rug of the same color and all the cars shaded to match; a huge merry-go-round said to have cost $20.000 displaying Chrysler parts and a chassis, presided over by a Sousa-like gentleman with a wand...
...situation of the heroine is socially, morally, economically and emotionally improbable, but genuinely affecting. Director John M. Stahl has elaborated the period detail of pre-War Cincinnati and Manhattan nearly as painstakingly as did Author Hurst. Examples: The high, ugly bandstand and the uniforms of the band playing Sousa's marches-on Sunday afternoon in Cincinnati; the three-step stoop before the notion store where the family chairs are drawn on summer evenings; the restfulness of the street noises?plodding hooves on cobbles, a teamster's gi-yap; pre-War Broad & Wall Streets, before the grey House of Morgan filled...
...Symphony Hall will be as follows: "Greetings to Bangor" March, R. B. Hall; "Poet and Peasant" Overture, Suppe; "Liebestraum", Listz-Herbert; "II-Trovatore" Fantasia, Verdi; "Finlandia", Sibelius; "Blue Danube" Waltz, Strauss; Second Hungarian Rhapsody, Liszt; "Mile. Modiste" Selection, Herbert; "Invitation to the Dance", Weber-Berlioz; "Stars and Stripes Forever", Sousa...
Stokowski's outdoor concert was ostensibly a rehearsal for a John Philip Sousa memorial concert held next night in Convention Hall. With Assistant Conductor Alexander Smallens of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Bandmaster Arthur Pryor, who once played the trombone in Sousa's band, Stokowski led the 200 jobless through nine Sousa marches which have come to comprise the nation's street music...