MUSICAL DIRECTOR
Josef Pasternack, famous musical conductor and composer, has been engaged by Columbia Pictures to supervise and direct the Fritz Kreisier music in the Grace Moore production “The King Steps Out,” now- in work under the direction of Joseph von Sternberg. Pasternack served as conductor at many of Grace Moore’* con cert appearances last year. He is a close friend of Fritz Kreisier, a friendship which dates back 12 years to the time when the conductor was musical director for the Victor Talking Machine Company and tho world-famous violinist was making gramophone recordings. Pasternack appeared as guest conductor with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra in its concert and opera season at Robin Dell, Pennsylvania, during the past season.
A pair of pink bedroom slippers which she wore in “Rasputin,” her first picture, are the most prized possession of Jean Parker, working with RKO. *• « * Among the new Silly Symphonies looming on the horizon is one t]iat introduces a new star in the Disney fir maincnt, and he looms colossal, " His name is Elmer Elephant, with a heart as soft a- ’ S Indo is tough, and a personality which fills a room the minute he enters it. Disney considers his new find of such magnitude that his is naming the Silly after him.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 101, 9 April 1936, Page 14
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211MUSICAL DIRECTOR Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 101, 9 April 1936, Page 14
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