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Most rugged individuals deplore Fascism without being able to do anything more about it. Not so one rugged individual named Arturo Toscanini. Last week, as the world and his wife cluck-clucked helplessly over Nazi activities in Austria (see p. 19) the bantamweight maestro got in a smart jab to his old enemy's musical midriff. Salzburg is in Austria, and since Maestro Toscanini has been conducting there (since 1934) in its annual summer festival, Salzburg has taken much of the tourist cake from, its Bavarian rival, Bayreuth. Last week Toscanini cabled from Manhattan that he would have nothing...
...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...
Next day at Manhattan's Town Hall two able but unballyhooed musicians, Adolf Busch and Rudolf Serkin, played the same work exquisitely. Only a few hundred mousy music-lovers went to hear them, but in the gallery, listening appreciatively, was sharp-eyed Maestro Toscanini...
...Columnist Winchell's figure had been true, which it apparently was not, 4.2, * while far short of the great variety shows' ratings which soar into the 30s, is about equal to the 4 average of the highly popular Philadelphia Orchestra. But NBC officials, smoked out, declared that Toscanini's rating was 9.1, which is on a par with the score of the New York Philharmonic's Sunday afternoon broadcasts...
Meanwhile, Toscanini broadcasts had become Manhattan's musical rage. Fourteen hundred of the musical and broadcasting elite, invited by an unfathomable system, have elbowed each other every week into the NBC auditorium for the privilege of hearing symphonic music under the worst possible acoustical conditions. For outsiders, a snob value has raised ticket scalpers' prices to $25 a pair. When Radio Comedian Fred Allen's scriptwriter recently penned the lines: Q. "What's the difference between me and Toscanini?" A. "He has long hair," art-conscious NBC officials censored the gag. Apparently there is a house...