Mecca

Walter Damrosch and his New York Symphony Orchestra sought volume and found it--volume in seating capacity, not sound. Last week they opened their Sunday concerts not in their accustomed Aeolian Hall but in Mecca Auditorium. The difference is this: 1,200 seats v. 3,700. Mr. Damrosch pronounced the acoustics of Mecca

Auditorium "noble" and the hearers were inclined to agree with him. He opened with Dvorak's New World Symphony: His soloist was the young and popular Mr. Lawrence Tibbett, famed Ford of Falstaff, whose star seems still in the ascendant.