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Married. Wanda Toscanini, 25, daughter of Conductor Arturo Toscanini; and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz. 29; in Milan. Divorce Revealed. Lily Pons, 29, French operasinger; from August Mesritz, fiftyish, Dutch lawyer; in Paris. Retiring. Dr. William Holland Wilmer, 70, famed eye surgeon whose patients included Siam's King Prajadhipok, Charles Lindbergh, J. P. Morgan, Booth Tarkington, the late Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Sir Auckland Geddes, Flyer Jimmy Doolittle; as director of Johns Hopkins Hospital's Wilmer Institute of Ophthalmology; next July 1. Reason: retirement...
...Gordon, Lawrence Tibbett. It has its own ballet, expertly trained by Adolph Bolm. It has usually managed to pay its way although this year, to no one's great concern, it ran up a deficit of $30,000. The Symphony hopes to square itself by having Arturo Toscanini for its guest conductor in the spring. Toscanini has always wanted to go to California but the New York Philharmonic, none too happy itself since Clarence Mackay's fortune shrank, was unwilling to spare its one big drawing card during the winter season...
Engaged. Wanda Toscanini, 26, daughter of Conductor Arturo Toscanini; and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz, 29. They became acquainted last winter in New York when Toscanini and Horowitz were rehearsing Beethoven's Emperor Concerto for a Philharmonic concert...
...league captains appeared-Chicago's square old Frederick Stock; Boston's Serge Koussevitzky, aloof and immaculate; Philadelphia's Leopold Stokowski, blond-mopped and mercury-quick as he shot on to the stage; New York's big Bruno Walter who conducts the Philharmonic until Arturo Toscanini returns in January...
...Walter (real name: Schlesinger) was first of the Jewish musicians to lose his job last spring in Germany. A conductor without an orchestra, he has drifted around since then, giving guest performances in Holland, Austria, London. Impressed with his martyrdom Philharmonic subscribers, who usually save their hero-worship for Toscanini. stood up when the big. kindly German came on stage, clapped him louder and longer than they ever clap his sensitive, scholarly performances. Beethoven and Brahms-Walter's program last week -were painstakingly conservative. The other big-league conductors played almost as safe. Koussevitzky added Scriahin and a touch...