When Ethel Leginska decided ten years ago that she would be a conductor, musicians and laymen regarded her as an eccentric, a publicity seeker who was ambitious beyond her sex. Leginska pioneered valiantly if erratically, proved that women could wave a baton as capably as they could play the harp or violin. Last week, by coincidence, two lady conductors turned ambitious backs in Manhattan's Town Hall.
One was Gertrud Hrdliczka, a comely Viennese who was conducting in Russia when she met Werner Hofmann, a U. S. engineer who was installing machinery for a...
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