Word: stokowski
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shin bone last week was tiny, historic Ravello. There, in the snug, age-whitened Villa Cimbrone, overlooking the blue Mediterranean from its mountain perch, two people were trying not to notice that all the world was watching them. The man: snowy-haired, limelight-loving, 55-year-old Conductor Leopold Stokowski, whose American wife divorced him last December. The woman: Hollywood's No. 1 recluse, Greta Garbo...
...With an offer of $4,000 per broadcast RCA brought out of retirement the 70-year-old former conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, (1 Leopold Stokowski, 2 Galliano Masini, 3 Jose Iturbi, 4 Arturo Toscanini, 5 Walter Damrosch...
Evangeline Brewster Johnson Stokowski, daughter of the late Surgical Goods Manufacturer-Robert W. Johnson, who was divorced two months ago from Conductor Leopold Stokowski (TIME, Dec. 13); to Prince Alexis Zalstem-Zalessky of Russia, student of tropical agriculture; in Phoenix, Ariz...
...Conductor Stokowski was married to Pianist Olga Samaroff who bore him one daughter, divorced him twelve years later. In January 1926 he was married to Evangeline Brewster Johnson, surgical manufacturer's daughter, who bore him two daughters, divorced him last month (TIME...
...Muscovites,* Manhattan musicians formed a "Conductorless Orchestra" and gave a series of Carnegie Hall concerts. They managed to keep time with each other, played as well as some orchestras do under some conductors. But the electric fusion of tone that would have been brought forth by a Toscanini, a Stokowski or a Furtwangler was completely lacking. Financially the venture was a dismal flop...