The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-06
pIG BUSINESS AND MUSIC
SAILOR RLAN0uE

pIG BUSINESS AND MUSIC
 Joseph Arnold. in Leslies.
 No legendary old world noblema n was ever so liberal a music patron as the wealthy American business man. cial giants and business executives of national eminence who consider the striving and planning for better de velopment of music in America an eh :. sential item in their programme of work
 Charles Gates Dawes, president of the Central Trust company of Illinois, former comptroller of the currency. and recently chairman of the general purchasing board of the A. E. E. n France, helps t6 direct the destini ss of the Chicago opera company, the American symphony orchestra, also Of Chicago, and furthers the careers ot many blossoming musical geniuses. otto Herm Nn Kahn, the late EG ward Il Fl ( nalfs associate, now a member of ..uhn, Loeb x Co, and q f.nancier internationally celebrated, has heen actively interested in the or ganizatlon of four grand opera conl- pan.es in America.
 Besides opera, MT. Kahn Is inter- ested in numerous musical enterprises and is himself fine performer on the, cello and violin.
 Clarence Hungerford Mackay, the president of the Commercial Cable company and the Postal Telesfapn T. Cable, is the very active president # York, and member of the board of d., rectors of the Metropolitan opera.
 One hundred thousand dollars aa nually is guaranteed the Symphony society of New York, Walter Dan, rosch. conductors by Harry Hardness Flagler. the financier The Institute of Musical Art, one of Americas most famous music schools, the Oratorio Sa- ciety of New York and the Eastside Music Settlement, besides several tai cnted students, are also on MT. Flag ier's list.
 George Eastman, the man who de- veloped that tremendous business tae Eastman Kodak company approach as musical cETsure in America from an other angle The Eastman plant gave to the movie camera the flexible film. Quite recently MT. Eastman made the munificent gift of S3,5V0,a00 for tho esta bli ishment of school of Music ia 1 Rochester, \. Y. This school whicn the trustees have named the Eastman School of Music, will nave an audit j. rium seating a.00o which will be uti- 1 llzed for presentation of the finest mo- ton pictures, accompanied by a large symphonic orchestra under direction of the school. It Is thus hoped to de :. velop branch of music, as yet in its infancy. the musical accompaniment to the motion picture.
 Adolph Lewisohn, president of sew eral mining companion, IS seventy years young and celebrates his long youth by devoted interest in music The stadium. that immense amph.- theatre which he presented to the Cisy college of New York, is used for open air concerts financed by Mir. Lew,soan
 Harold Fowler Mccormick. the soii of the inventor of the harvesting ma- chine and vice president of the h. ternational Harvester company. ielps to finance the Chicago Opera assoc,a ton. lie also is the patron of alm ISL avery musical venture in the west
 In Philadelphia the leader of the music patrons is Edward Townsend stotesbury. who began life as clerk in a wholesale grocery and is now head of Drexal & Co. and member of the firm of ]. P. Morgan.