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Like last week's other revivals (see cols. 2 & 3), Miss Adams' had its peculiarities. She herself performed not as Viola but in the minor part of Maria. The play was equipped with a prolog and epilog suggested by Miss Adams and written by old-time Dramacritic Walter Prichard Eaton, which attempted to give Twelfth Night the flavor of a play within a play. In the prolog, while the players bargained with an innkeeper and set up their props, supernumeraries, representing members of a 17th Century audience at a country theatre "try-out," gathered in the stage boxes...
...members of the quartet, all members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, are Norbert Lauga, first violin; Clarence Knudson, second violin; Jean Cauhape, viola; and Yves Chardon, 'cello. The complete list of dates for the Thursday series are: November 9 and 23, December 14, January 18, February 15, March 15, and April 12. Course tickets are now on sale at the Longy School, 44 Church Street. They may be obtained either by applying for them in person during the day or by mailing a check to the School...
...orchestra was in its golden age under Arturo Toscanini, a dark slip of a boy with intense brown eyes and a rapt expression was usually concealed where he could watch and hear all that transpired, not on the stage, but in the orchestra pit, where his father played a viola. The father was a Belgian. The son, Leon Barzin, had been brought up in New Orleans but the rest of his youth was to be spent in Manhattan where, by the age of 20, he had achieved a second violinist's chair in the Philharmonic. In 1925 he became...
...whose veins flowed the blood of his famed father. His brothers and sisters, save for Helen, all insisted on marrying actresses or noblemen -generally more than once. His sister Anna divorced Count Boni de Castellane and married the Due de Talleyrand. His brother Howard (now living abroad) married Actress Viola Kathrine Clemmons...
...World's Fair concerts is grey-haired Conductor Frederick August Stock who is giving his services. The opening night was sweltering hot but Conductor Stock seemed unmindful of the perspiration streaming down his face. He was back in the Auditorium where he used to play the viola under Theodore Thomas, his predecessor who supervised the Fair music in 1893. He conducted Wagner and Richard Strauss music with such force and inspiration that even his most finicky listeners wondered how they ever could have thought him stodgy...