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Beethoven's First Symphony by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under Willem Mengelberg (Victor, $8)-A capable performance by the Dutchman who last year left the U. S. because he could not play a capable second fiddle to Conductor Arturo Toscanini. The recording is excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gangster | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet by Conductor Willem Mengelberg and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra (Columbia, $4)-Toscanini would scorn playing this popular love music inspired by Tchaikovsky's unrequited passion for a French singing actress. Mengelberg and his home orchestra give it a glowing performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gangster | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

...Portland (Ore.) Symphony is again under Willem Van Hoogstraten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Up Strike Orchestras | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

...LIFE AND TIMES or REMBRANDT VAN RIJN?Hendrik Willem Van Loon?Liveright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forsyte Footnotes* | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

...Author. Hendrik Willem Van Loon (pronounced "Van Loan") is fat and 48. Onetime newspaperman, onetime professor of history, he married his third wife after she had divorced her first husband, then left her for his second wife after his second wife had divorced her second husband; now lives with his second wife. While he was in Amsterdam getting material for this book he tried to raise money to pay Rembrandt's debts, rehabilitate the 300-year-old undischarged bankrupt. Other books: The Story of Mankind, Tolerance, America, The Story of the Bible. R. v. R. is the Literary Guild selection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forsyte Footnotes* | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

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