Word: toscaninis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guest conductor of the ABC Symphony Orchestra. In eight years in San Antonio, he had turned 40 homespun musicians into a smoothly functioning symphony of 78 pieces. Among the treasures in his new scrapbook: U.S. citizenship, a letter from the maestro he had once trembled before in Milan. Wrote Toscanini, after hearing a Reiter broadcast: "A fine performance, which is a thing that does not happen very often even with famous orchestras and widely publicized conductors...
...world's first regularly operating television network began serving New York, Philadelphia, Schenectady and Washington last week. Opening night, NBC televised a speech by FCChairman Charles R. Denny (from Washington), a variety show, some boxing bouts from Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, a film of Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony. By early 1952, NBC hopes to cast its net from coast to coast. One big obstacle to the big plans: A.T. & T.'s proposed cable rates-almost ten times the rate for radio broadcasts...
...Arturo Toscanini, whose Broadway appearances are few, has been three times to see The Medium, and its frivolous companion piece, The Telephone.* When Tallulah Bankhead saw The Medium, she went backstage, dramatically fell on her knees before Marie, and exclaimed: "I have been moved by three performances in my lifetime: John Barrymore in Hamlet, Jeanne Eagels in Rain, and you." For the entire cast of six she had a typical Tallulu: "This is the only play . . . that has thrilled my soul and chilled my guts...
...Where has Marie Powers been all our lives? The answer is that she has been out of the country most of the years since she left home in Mt. Carmel, Pa. at 17, to study singing in Italy. In Milan she sneaked into a friend's audition by Toscanini, got a job in La Scala for herself. She sang all over Europe, capably but not gloriously, and married an Italian nobleman. Her husband died just before the war, and she returned to the U.S. with 28? in her purse. She was singing road-company opera in Seattle when...
...Toscanini took a garrulous lady friend to see The Telephone, which concerns a woman who spends so much time gabbling on the phone that she wouldn't listen to a proposal. Toscanini, in a waggish mood, got Menotti to substitute the friend's phone number for the phony number usually used in the opera...