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...Film Society is to show to a limited group of members, who pay $12 a year to see ten Sunday evening performances, cinemas of esthetic merit which, because of censors or lack of popular appeal, are not exhibited in commercial cinemansions. Sponsors include George Gershwin, Eva Le Gallienne, Leopold Stokowski, John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson, Norman Bel Geddes, Nelson Rockefeller. Organized not for profit but for "the study, research and development of film art." the Society initiated a trend which is the cinema equivalent of the Little Theatre movement. Already it has a lusty rival: the Film Forum, headed...
...opened a new art museum last week, the Toledo Museum of Art turned the tables by opening a 1,500-seat concert hall in one of its new wings, gift of the late Ohio bottle maker Edward Drummond Libbey. That too was an occasion. Curly-haired Leopold Stokowski and his Philadelphia Symphony traveled out for the opening concert. Grandiloquently entitled The Peristyle, the new concert hall is built like a Greek outdoor theatre with sharply sloping banks of seats around the arena and a pillared colonnade at the back. Borrowing an idea from the newer cinemansions the flat-domed ceiling...
Last week instead of Conductor Leopold Stokowski, Eugene Ormandy took the Philadelphia Orchestra to Manhattan, to Carnegie Hall stage where Conductor Mengelberg refused to let him play ten years ago. The audience loudly approved his firm, clear beat, his authority over the orchestra, his unmannered way of letting the music speak for itself. He suggested to some people the simple, hard-working conductor that Stokowski used to be before he let his pale hair grow...
...smoothest pate in the orchestra belongs to Alfred Friese, oldtime tympanist of the New York Philharmonic, whose pupil, young black-mopped Saul Goodman, now stands behind the kettledrums in Toscanini's orchestra.) Each concert has a different guest-conductor. Some of this season's guests: Gershwin. Reiner, Rodzinski, Stokowski. Stock, Harty...
Seventy-year-old Walter Damrosch, whom a New York Times editorial called "Ariel" fortnight ago when he began again to waft and explain safe & sane music over the air to 6,000,000 children, fumed: "To force these [Stokowski's] experiments on helpless children is criminal. Should cubism have been used to preach the glories of painting to our young people...