In Chicago

Chicagoans named Jiskra, Charbulak, Recoschewitz, Pytlowski, Napolilli, Masacek, Trnka and so on were slightly aghast last week at their own temerity. They, performers in Chicago's Symphony Orchestra, had asked for higher salaries, $100 per week for regulars, $75 per week for extras and substitutes. They had been getting, respectively, $80 and $55. But, unlike the musicians of the Chicago Civic Opera (TIME, April 11), they had not obtained their demands. The patrons and managers of fine music in the city of wind and superlatives were convinced that symphonic salaries could be boosted no higher. In consequence President James C. Petrillo of the Chicago Musicians Association was obliged to announce that there will be no Chicago Symphony next year. Messrs. Jiskra, Recoschewitz, Napolilli, Trnka, et al. prepared, as a bad press punster wrote, to disband. Conductor Frederick A. Stock, however, was reported reengaged at his usual salary, to give him time to compose.