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Women conductors are not a complete novelty to U. S. concertgoers. Fiery, mop-headed Ethel Leginska, conducting symphonies as early as 1926, was soon followed by Chicago's Ebba Sundstrom and Manhattan's Antonia Brico. But few of the big-league U. S. symphony orchestras have ever been led by a woman...
...Frank St. Leger, radio director (American Radiator Co.'s Fireside Recitals), put the ladies through their paces. Watching him from an orchestra seat sat the woman who had been the symphony's conductor for eight years, and last week was so no longer -hard-working, blonde Ebba Sundstrom...
Chicago critics have often been polite to the Woman's Symphony but its performing ranks have seethed with jealousy, its feminine management has been beset by cliques. Headed by diamante-bodiced Mrs. Keith, the orchestra board dropped Ebba Sundstrom. Last week Conductor St. Leger, despite his flourishes and foot-tappings, was praised by Critic Cecil Smith of the Tribune for lightening the symphony's habitual "humorless heavy-handedness." Next month First Violinist Gladys Welge, favorite of one group of players, will try her hand at conducting. In February, Conductor Erno Rapee (Radio City Music Hall) should settle...
...faced 200-odd singers as ruddy-faced, golden-haired and Nordic as herself. At her feet, lost in the dusk and their black dresses, sat the 80 women who make up her orchestra. To pay her respects to Scandinavia and the thousands of Chicagoans who came from there, Conductor Sundstrom had planned a predominantly Swedish program, packed the stage with Chicago's Swedish Choral Society, brought with her Swedish Contralto Gertrud Wettergren, the big, brown-haired, rawboned Valkyrie who first sang with the Stockholm Opera in 1922, took parts in two Swedish talking pictures, excited Manhattan audiences last winter...
With long, pendulum-like swings of the arm and huge, rhythmic rockings of her body from the heels up, Conductor Sundstrom carried chorus and orchestra through excerpts from Wagner's Tannhauser, Elgar's King Olaf, Grieg's Olaf Tryggvason. Heated, enthusiastic, she swung next into a Schumann symphony, had to wipe her perspiring brow after the first movement. She had picked up enough energy in her European trip to satisfy everybody and to make Daily News Critic Eugene Stinson find the orchestra "well nigh unrecognizable, so firmly has Ebba Sundstrom increased her grasp over her players since...