Conductor Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra, whose powder-puff head evolves enough publicity stunts for a Hollywood jazzster, last week got into the newspapers by suddenly calling to his valet during a rehearsal: "Teddy, bring me my horse!" Valet Teddy trotted out with a wooden buck draped in a blanket and fitted with a shiny new English saddle. Stokowski's men tittered as Trombonist Charles Gusikoff started to p1ay "Horses, Horses, Horses!"
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