Notes

Unprecedented for a dancer was the tour given this season by La Argentina. From coast to coast she gave 49 recitals, eight in Manhattan, four in Chicago, two in Boston, two in San Francisco, four in Los Angeles where famed cinemactors flocked to watch her pantomime. Last week in Manhattan she was to have danced for a soth time, and to have sailed immediately thereafter to rejoin her ballet in Paris. But a cold, exhaustion seized her. Operation for appendicitis followed. Recital and sailing were canceled.

The New York Philharmonic-Symphony announced last week that after this season it would discontinue its annual concerts in Baltimore and Washington. In recognition of the increasing demand Manhattan will have 113 concerts, five more than this year. The Philadelphia Orchestra will continue its Baltimore and Washington visits.

At Ormond Beach, Fla., last week, John Davison Rockefeller said his appreciation with flowers instead of dimes. The person thus honored was 22-year-old Pianist Helen Pugh who pleased him so greatly that he attended two of her concerts, at the second sat near the front to watch her hands. In Asheville, N. C., townsfolk read proudly of the distinction shown Pianist Pugh. Since the age of five she has been Asheville's pet prodigy.

Decided in Manhattan last week were two long-standing lawsuits concerning royalties on Victor records. One favored the U. S. Government against Soprano Alma Gluck. Two years ago she had contended that an excess profit tax of some $6,592 was unfair, sued for its return on the grounds that royalties of more than $100,000 (received in a single year) were from records made in 1917 (TIME, Jan. 16, 1928). The other favored Mrs. Dorothy Park Benjamin Caruso, widow of the late great tenor, a brother, Giovanni Caruso, Rudolfo and Enrico Jr., natural sons, as against Gloria, 10-year-old legitimate daughter. New Jersey's Chancellor Edwin R. Walker had awarded Gloria two-thirds of her father's royalties which amount even now to some $70,000 a year. An Italian court was awarded the decision that, since the tenor left no will, each of the other heirs was entitled to an eighth, Gloria to one-half.

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