Hot nights bring good music in cool places to U. S. cities. By this week the season was fairly launched:
¶In 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...
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