Monday, Mar. 03, 1930
''Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:
Conductor Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra was censured by many last week for ousting nine of his players. FourClarinetist Paul Alemann, Horn-player Otto Henneberg, Violinist Marius Thor, Oboeist Edward Raho--had been with the orchestra from 18 to 26 years. Probable reason for their dismissal: too old, stale.
Aimee Semple McPherson, notorious Los Angeles Evangelist, made known that, as soon as she returns from an inspection of the Holy Land, she will make an audible cinema based on events in her episodic life. Beginning with her soul saving activities in China as a preacher's widow, the continuity will include the scene of her still dubious abduction. Emerging from the sea in a dripping green bathing suit, she will be deftly anesthetized by villains, whisked away to the Mexican desert.
Paul, son of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, stroking the Emmanuel College crew, "bumped" (overtook) four other boats, won the Cambridge Inter-College Regatta on the River Cam.
Lenora ("Snorks") Wodehouse, daughter of British Funnywriter Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, gave a party at "Wode House" in London. By way of something new, music from the ballroom orchestra was picked up by a microphone, reproduced on a loud speaker in a room where refreshments were served. Present at the party were a couple newly engaged. They slipped away at refreshment time, found a snuggly nook behind the potted palms in the ballroom where the orchestra had been playing. Suddenly in the refreshment room where a hundred guests were dining, the loud speaker began to broadcast what was being said in the snugglery behind the potted palms. Aghast, "Snorks" pricked up her ears, realized that at least two reputations were at stake and dashed from the refreshment salon, locking the door behind her. Before the other guests could follow in whooping cry, "Snorks'' had warned the spooners, smuggled them out the back way, in a style reminiscent of the fiction of her father.
Yehudi Menuhin, 13-year-old California boy prodigy, gave a violin recital in Manhattan to a packed house. Although he had a sore throat, Prodigy Menuhin would not postpone the performance when he heard that Conductor Arturo Toscanini was in the audience. After the recital. Conductor Toscanini bussed Yehudi, promised to have him play a concerto with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony.
Edward of Wales, busy picturing and potting wild life in Kenya Colony, British East Africa, shot an elephant.
Queen Mary of England, attending the London showing of a cinema of African wild life, said: "I am very nervous at the thought of the Prince of Wales being near so many dangerous beasts."
Gerard B. Lambert (Listerine), who owns estates at Princeton, N. J., and Millwood, Va., bought "Carter's Creek," an ancestral seat, at Tidewater, Va. His yacht Atlantic was piloted across the ocean in 1928 in the King of Spain Cup Race by Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams.
While friends of Sherman M. Fairchild, president of Fairchild Aviation Corp., played bridge with his aunt on the first floor of his triplex Manhattan penthouse, a thief stole in, made away with $10,000 worth of sapphire, diamond jewelry.
Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut, a director of Colonial Airways, dedicated a hangar at Newark, N. J., airport, then started to make a glider flight. Observers watched the craft, towed by an automobile, scrape across the ground, rise, wabble, dive, crash. The Governor sprained an ankle, told pressmen that his foot had slipped off the controls.
President William Green of the American Federation of Labor wrote a letter to Chairman George Woodward Wickersham of the National Law Observance & Enforcement Commission. Pointing out the benefits that the manufacture of beer would bring to labor, said he: "Millions of bottles would be required to distribute the product and would give employment to a great number of glass bottle blowers."
Thomas Alva Edison, waiting for his two-acre field of goldenrod to blossom so that he may experiment with the weed in the hope of producing rubber, thought that paper pulp might be made from "punk" trees, a grove of which flourishes 20 mi. from his Fort Myers, Fla., winter home.
Bernard Mannes Baruch, banker, economist, Wilsonian friend, great authority on balneotherapeutics (medicinal mineral waters), and head of a commission which studied European baths, bads and eaux, recommended that New York spend at least $2,200,000 on its famed Saratoga Springs. Waters of Saratoga Springs contain carbonic acid gas and sundry minerals good for treating various diseases. The money would build sanitariums, boarding houses, drink halls, parks, the institutions being under strict medical supervision. Officially unencouraged, of course, would be the horse racing conducted every August since 1863 by the Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses, or the various forms of gambling associated with the racing season.
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