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...program, to be played on a Steinway piano, will consist of the Barcarolle, opus 60; three mazurkas; Scherzo, opus 54; Sonata, opus 58 in B minor; four etudes; and Scherzo, opus...
...unionize the opera field, the A.A.A.A. announced a hearing in the Manhattan headquarters of Actors Equity Association. Furious, aware that the skids were already greased for their union, the Grand Opera Artists' high command, led by a Hippodrome baritonfe named Giuseppe Interrante, held a mas|; meeting in Steinway Hall. Star speaker was not a worker but an employer-Al-fredo Salmaggi, explosive, long-haired manager of the Hippodrome troupe, who once weathered a G.O.A.A.A. strike-between the acts of A'ida when the company suspected it was not going to be paid promptly-and has since become...
Fifth in volume, first in prestige, is famed Steinway & Sons, now run by three grandsons and three great-grandsons of Founder Henry Engelhard Steinway. Among the Steinways shown this year was its new $885 model, designed to do for the company what the medium-priced Packard 120 has done for Packard motor. Last week in Chicago, Steinway's ace front man, baldish Roman de Majewski, suavely entertained buyers with the champagne that Steinway always serves. Disdaining most of the convention's activity, President Theodore E. Steinway failed to show up for the final banquet...
...notified, tried to reach Eddie Cantor before he started his weekly broadcast, failed. He hastened to spill his news to a friend on the staff of the Newark Evening News. The News telephoned to Cantor. Within a few hours the comedian's office in Manhattan's Steinway Hall was popping with newshawks. To them brash Lloyd Lewis amazingly explained: "Sure it's President Kingdon's article. I didn't understand that it had to be an original piece. I thought you just were to send in the best essay you could find...
...actions, most U. S. piano makers buy them readymade. Biggest action manufacturer is Pratt, Read & Co. in Deep River, Conn. In Chicago last week Pratt, Read & Co. was showing the revolutionary action which it bought from William Finholm after that young inventor had turned down a small offer from Steinway & Sons. The Finholm action, approved by most music men who tried it in Chicago last week, is less complicated than the standard one which he hopes it will supersede. Chief feature is that it does away with eleven pounds of the lead which is used to weight all piano keys...