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...autumn to open the symphony season in San Francisco's new War Memorial Opera House, to win $25 from the beating California gave Stanford at football. Then he hurried to Manhattan where he scored the quick success that San Franciscans had prophesied for him. Dobrowen (pronounced Do-bro-vane) gets dynamic effects by constantly fluttering his left hand, tossing his black head, whipping the air nervously with his baton. Considerable excitement was aroused at his Manhattan debut fortnight ago when he played Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, of which San Francisco is tired but which Manhattan seldom hears...
...prevented them from running to seed, and in only two generations. Best of the lot, and favorite of old Grandpa Jarrold, was his widowed daughter-in-law, Evelyn. She enjoyed her position, her wealth, her adored son Dan's adoration-even her widowhood, until she met Miles Vane-Merrick. Miles was an aristocratic but land-poor farmer, an Old Etonian but intelligent and unconventional, Member of Parliament but a Laborite. And he fell in love with her though he was young enough to be her nephew. Conventional as only a bourgeoise could be, Evelyn knew she was ruining herself...
Said Bishop Manning: "So far as I can recollect, I know of no such person." But others knew her, including ex-Dean Robbins, to whom she left $350,000 in trust, and Dr. Henry Vane Beams Darlington of the Church of the Heavenly Rest, whither she went from the Cathedral. His church received $25,000 and he $1,000 for burying her. Other friends recalled that she had two prejudices: one against dogs & cats indoors, the other against Friday, the thirteenth. She died Friday...
Appearing, as it did, on the topmost pinnacle of the new Memorial Chapel, without explanation of its form, the gold-leaf plated wind-vane has caused much inquiry, some people even questioning whether it was a fisk's tail surmounted by a harp. It was learned late last night that the vane is in the shape of a penant flying in the wind, and is copied from a medieval lance. The cap topping the mast is made up of two Greek crosses...
When Issai Dobrowen (pronounced Do-bro-vane) sat worshipfully listening to one of the Parsifal performances Arturo Toscanini conducted in Bayreuth last summer, he had no notion that he would ever be invited to conduct Toscanini's New York orchestra. In his 38 years the crinkly-haired, wiry little Russian has gone far. He has conducted in Moscow. Dresden, Berlin, Sofia, Oslo. Last year he was chosen along with British Basil Cameron to succeed hulking Alfred Hertz in San Francisco. Last week it was announced that he would conduct the Philharmonic-Symphony for four weeks next winter, after Toscanini...