Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Debussy's La Mer by Piero Coppola and Symphony Orchestra (Victor, $5) - A valuable imported version of the subtly wrought sea sketches...
Tchaikovsky's Concerto in D by Violinist Mischa Elman and the London Symphony Orchestra under John Barbirolli (Victor, $10) - Elman's mellifluous tone marks this performance of the Concerto originally dedicated to Elman's teacher, the late great Leopold Auer, who rejected it because of its technical difficulties...
Debussy's Minstrels and Wind in the Plain by Ignace Jan Paderewski (Victor, $1.50) - No Paderewski record needs recommendation this season...
...Bolivar statue under wreaths. Great Britain: Members of the Diplomatic Corps attended a requiem high mass in Westminster Cathedral (not the Abbey). Arthur Henderson, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, unveiled a tablet in Apsley House where El Libertador was once entertained by Wellington, not yet the victor of Waterloo...
...interest of the juvenile holiday trade the Brothers Shubert have revived Victor Herbert's Babes In Toyland. The production has an air of Herbert-cum-Ringling Bros. For the chief attraction of the show is a troupe of Singer's midgets who dress up as penguins in the toyshop scene, play in a jazz band, direct the lumbering movements of three very large elephants. In the midst of the general merriment one midget rides across the stage on a reindeer. What is left of the Herbert score is ably handled by a cast of full-sized adults...