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...Manhattan, Pianist-Conductor Jose Iturbi opened the Lewisohn Stadium season with a meticulous rendering of Beethoven's Egmont overture. As usual, old Adolph Lewisohn, who built the Stadium, made a sweet, fumbling speech in which he announced that, besides Iturbi, Willem van Hoogstraten and Eugene Ormandy would lead the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. When Mayor LaGuardia made a speech Communist hecklers who had been waiting since late afternoon in the 25? seats chorused: "Yellow dog La-Guardia! Yellow dog LaGuardia!" Three nights later the Stadium offered a novelty -the first of eight pairs of operas, with scenery and Metropolitan...
...engravings, tid bits of curious information. Sir Percy manifests the complacent chauvinism of the typical hardy, wayfaring Briton, speaks of "British thoroughness," situations "saved by British coolness," believes the British owe their love of adventure to Viking blood from the Normans. Thus although he gives the Dutchman Willem Janszoon credit for discovering Australia in 1605, he spends more time with James Cook who sailed intrepidly jp the east coast of the continent and won it for England. Yet he admires great explorers of any nationality, particularly Alexander the Great and Marco Polo. He las crossed the same fearful stretch...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news: At a formal dinner of the American Women's Club in Paris at which he was guest of honor. Writer Hendrik Willem Van Loon appeared in a business suit, said that a dentist to whom he owed $720 had not sent him a bill, had attached all his clothes instead. Banker Otto Hermann Kahn sold "St. Dunstan's," his 12-acre estate in aristocratic Regents Park, London (until 1928 used as a hospital for blind British War veterans) to the London Daily Mail's Publisher Harold Sidney...
Everyone in the world named William (or Guillaume, Guglielmo, Willem, Wilhelm, Guilielmus, Guillermo, Guilherme) was invited to an international Congress of Williams in October 1934 at St. Brieuc, France to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the death of St. Guillaume Pinchon, Bishop of St. Brieuc who in 1225 saved thousands from famine by functioning as Brittany's food dictator...
...technique and conducting, presents them in concerts. The best pupils graduate into the big orchestras, to sit on chairs under great conductors as Leon Barzin's father did, as he was not content to do. This summer came the next step upward in Leon Barzin's career. Willem van Hoogstraten, official conductor of the Philharmonic-Symphony in its summer concerts at Lewisohn Stadium, was away on a fortnight's vacation. As guest conductor, Leon Barzin, 32, was called to give five concerts, leading the great orchestra in which he had been top man. One night last week...