¶Of the numerous U. S. localities which maintain open-air summer concerts, only the Hollywood Bowl pretentiously labels its performances "Symphonies Under the Stars." One night last week Peggy Wood, Marlene Dietrich, Josef von Sternberg, Jeanette MacDonald, Corinne Griffith and some 18,000 others heard Otto Klemperer play Beethoven, Wagner, Debussy, Al-beniz, Berlioz in the Bowl's opener. Conductors to follow during the eight-week season : Willem Mengelberg, Ernest Schelling, Bernardino Molinari, José Iturbi.
From the Hollywood Bowl last week many an auditor glanced up at a hill 1,000 ft. away where, once an evening,...
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