Word: stokowskis
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...Stokowski hired him as a soloist in a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, but his dress suit cost as much as he earned. Then he went into the Army a private, and came out a lieutenant, and made enough money singing Red Ball Express in the Broadway G.I. hit Call Me Mister to pay for an encouraging Town Hall debut. His springboard to Aïda: success in Mexico City on the radio and as soloist at President Miguel Alemán's official dinners...
...eyed Billy Still still has no "work." But he is the U.S.'s leading Negro composer. His melodic, sometimes fiercely rhythmic symphonies and tone poems have been performed by Stokowski...
Gloria: Vanderbilt Stokowski (who wants to be known in the world of art as Glorya Stokowska) announced at the first exhibit of her painting and "paint sculpture" (see cut) that she would sell any of the 13 pictures, but only after a careful personal interview with the prospective buyer to make sure that he is really interested in the picture and not just the name...
Died. Olga Samaroff Stokowski, 65, plump, hearty, onetime concert pianist, and Texas-born first wife of Conductor Leopold Stokowski; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Christened Lucy Hickenlooper,* she adopted the Russian name as more appropriate to an artistic career, for 50-odd years taught bankers and clubwomen how to listen to music, and budding pianists how to play...
...newly elected leaders of the class of '51 are: Sadja A. Stokowski, President; Barbara J. Fitzgerald, Vice-President; Helen B. Bernstein, Secretary; Lillian D. Merrill, Treasurer; and Patricia Connor and Joan M. Bresnahan, Student Council Representatives...