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Born. To Wanda Toscanini Horowitz, daughter of Conductor Arturo Toscanini; and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz; a daughter, Sonya, Toscanini's third grandchild; in Milan, Italy...
...swart little man with a waxed mustache and a hat several sizes too small, photographers would have rushed out to Quarantine and presently crowds would have lined up for the opening of the Philharmonic-Symphony. Those who got in would have stood in their seats and yelled for Arturo Toscanini...
...mark fee for an Austrian visa, were held up on the Austro-German border on technicalities. But "My Leader's" efforts seemed to attract more visitors than they kept away. From France, Italy, the U. S.. Scandinavia, the crowds poured in. Willem Mengelberg arrived from Switzerland. Arturo Toscanini, who had snubbed Germany's invitation to conduct at Bayreuth, arrived from Italy. King Prajadhipok of Siam and his Queen were on hand. No Nazis could prevent German Bruno Walter from conducting because they had already exiled him. When the Reich's Chamber of Culture asked Charles Kullman...
...Winter Riding School into the Festspielhaus, to seat 1,400. From its opening month ago with Bruno Walter conducting the Eroica funeral march in honor of murdered Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, the Festival has sounded a steady crescendo of enthusiasm. The climax everyone wanted to hear arrived last week when Toscanini picked up his baton before the Vienna Philharmonic. In honor of Mozart, he opened his program with the D Major Symphony. Salzburg audiences this year have showered flowers on Mengelberg, applauded Felix Weingartner and Clemens Krauss, cheered themselves hoarse over Bruno Walter, but the roar they gave Toscanini sounded like...
Full houses are nothing new to Toscanini. Last year in Manhattan he had them for every Philharmonic concert. Bruno Walter and Hans Lange, the other two Philharmonic conductors, could never quite fill Carnegie Hall last season. Since Herr Walter has been in Austria, however, he has developed the trick of jam-packing concert halls like the Maestro himself. His performances of Weber's Oberon and Mozart's Don Giovanni left few doubts that he had run off with the opera honors, might well be considered the Festival's Hero...