Music: Solvent Symphony

In a Cleveland hotel last fortnight, four people named John Long Severance, Dudley Stuart Blossom, Mrs. Adella Prentiss Hughes and Nikolai Sokolov, had dinner together. Others were present, but those four might well have celebrated all alone. They were celebrating the financial emancipation of Cleveland's orchestra, the casting out of an old theme which one can nearly always hear booming from the tympanum of any U. S. symphony—the theme of debt.

In Cleveland's case the bills over and above the annual receipts have been in...

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