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...each time Soprano Hizi Koyke as Madame Butterfly struck a high note. In New York's Central Park rollerskaters kept time to Goldman band music. The "pop" concerts started in the White Plains West Chester County Centre in which maples and evergreen trees have been propped up. In Westport, Conn., the Manhattan Symphony postponed until next week the world premiere of Secretary William H. Woodin's The Gallant Tin Soldier, gave instead Daniel Gregory Mason's Chanticleer. Nearby in Weston, Conductor Nikolai Sokoloffs backyard was rolled and ready for the new New York Orchestra which he will...
...been an orchestra-builder. It was he who, shrewd, tireless and ambitious, founded the Cleveland Orchestra 14 years ago with the help of Adella Prentiss Hughes, and who secured for it last year its fine new home, Severance Hall (TIME, Feb. 16, 1931). Last week Nikolai Sokoloff, summering in Westport, Conn., was looking forward to next winter's 15th orchestra season; but he could not look forward to being Cleveland's maestro after May 31, 1933. The Cleveland Orchestra Company had failed to renew its contract with Founder Sokoloff, previously engaged for five-year periods...
Married. William McFee, 51, retired merchant mariner, author of sea tales (Casuals of the Sea, The Harbourmaster, Aliens); and Beatrice Allender, 34, Westport housekeeper; in Hartford, Conn...
...Westport, Conn...
...Plainfield, N. J. in 1886, since his graduation from Harvard has been associated with the Doubleday, Page and Century publishing houses; has associate-edited The Freeman and the first American Caravan. Ill health forced him to desert the Caravan. He lives with his wife and two sons in Westport, Conn. Generally conceded one of America's few serious critics, Critic Brooks takes as the theme of all his work the peculiar opportunities and disabilities of U. S. literati. Of his study of Emerson, he says: "What I wished to convey was a convincing and joyously infectious image of genius . . . meeting...