Among professions which the WPA has attempted to aid, music has needed all the help it could get, has been slow in experiencing recovery. Currently nearly 10,000 U. S. musicians do WPA work. In Chicago, where it has placed two men in the Chicago Symphony, the Federal Music Project of the WPA last week announced a more notable feat of re-employment. Robert Sutton Whitney, 33, Chicago supervisor of the Project, was made permanent conductor of the Louisville Symphony Orchestra.
When members of the Civic Arts Association, which backs the Louisville orchestra, began hunting...
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