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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7865, 29 July 1911, Page 19

Justus Miles Forman onoo in writing a story for "Harper’s Magazine” used the name of an artist friend for the character of a chap who foil in lovo with a peasant girl in the Milanese. "It made all his friends roar with glee,” said Air Forman. "But he got even with me by making a large twenty-four sheet'poster for a musical comedy. There was a lady, the star, stepping out of the stage door and a long lino of Johnnies waiting for her with silly smirks and bunches of violets. And every Johnny was a portrait of mo” It has been' announced that no successor to Dr. Biehtcr at Manchester will bo appointed- for the present, but tha<- the direction of the Hallo concerts will be shared by Professor Miiallex-Iteuter of ICrofold, Professor Baths of Dasseldorf, and Dr. Muck of Vienna. "No British need apply” is clearly tho rule which has been acted on (says Lahouohore’s journal). How it will strike foreign observers may bo realised best, perhaps, if one im-a<-incs that an important conductoiship at Hamburg had fallen vacant and the announcement bad born made that Sir Henry Wood. Mr London Ronald, and Mr Thomas Beech am had been invited to discharge tire duties of tire position in default of any available native musician.