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...musicians pride themselves on not being gimmicks. To differentiate themselves from this clan, they wear their hair longer; their neckties, their phrases, are more picturesque. The only criticism they fear is the accusation that they fear criticism, that they are trying to make themselves as gimmicks are. Not so Vincent Lopez, famed jazzbo. Music, he says, should ape business. Orchestras should have labels, price tags; the labels should stand for quality. Jazz is a commodity, like canned food. It should be retailed as such. To carry out this theory, he has organized a company-Vincent Lopez Inc.-the shares...
...division a close contest quickly developed between Harvard's representatives, Robert E. Sherwood and Heywood Broun, authors and critics, and Yale's stalwarts, Stephen Vincent Benet, famous author, and John Thomas, Armed with chalk, each contestant faced a blackboard, waving a paper of definitions in one hand and writing vigorously with the other. For a time it was anybody's match but Benet and Thomas spurted toward the end and won by several words in record breaking time...
Yale has announced John Farrar and Stephen Vincent as her crossword team, but a canvass of likely persons both at Harvard and Wellesley failed to reveal any one aware of this new departure in intercollegiate competition. The New York contests are to be staged for the benefit of the Bryn Mawr Music Foundation and the City Music League of New York...
Last week in Manhattan, at the home of Mrs. Vincent Astor, met the Board of Directors of the Philharmonic Society.* Chairman Clarence H. Mackay made announcements. He said that Arturo Toscanini had agreed to conduct the Philharmonic Orchestra in a series of concerts next year. He added that Willem Mengelberg, tiny Dutch giant of the baton, had been reengaged for three years; that Wilhelm Furtwäengler, German conductor, will shortly appear in a guest engagement. Toscanini has not been heard in the U. S. since 1920, when he toured the country with his La Scala orchestra, gave a series...
...Juilliard, Marshall Field, Otto H. Kahn, Charles Triller, Alvin W. Krech, Arthur Judson, Nicholas Murray Butler, Scipione Guidi, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, Thomas L. Leeming, L. E. Manoly, Frank L. Polk, D. Edward Porter, Walter W. Price, Elihu Root, Charles H. Sabin, Nelson S. Spencer, Maurice Van Praag. Mrs. Vincent Astor is the Chairman of the Executive Committee on the Auxiliary Board...