Pianist Ethel Leginska has often disappointed her audiences by failure to appear. Ethel Leginska, as conductor, has always been at the appointed dais at the appointed time. Last week Conductor Leginska broke her record, failed her public. The San Carlo Grand Opera Company had announced that she would conduct the last Saturday matinee of its Manhattan engagement. But soon they bickered. Conductor Leginska wished to lead not one but four performances. The San Carlo rebelled—and at the scheduled Butterfly the audience watched the serviceable back of Carlo Peroni instead of the svelt velvet jacket...
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