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Show BAN ALIEN MUSICIANS FROM LONDON THEATRES LONDON. Aug. 14. t Correspondence Correspond-ence ) A working agreement has b' mi f ni' ron into between the Musical Musi-cal Conductors' association anil the National Orchestral Union of Professional Profes-sional Sluaicians whereby members of both bodies pledged to oppose op-pose alien competition. Their purpose pur-pose Is declared to be to combat "the determined efforts Of foreign conductors conduc-tors and Instrumentalists to regain their pre-war footing in London theaters." thea-ters." and to "recognize the need for a concerted defense." Th? organisations state that "al the outbreak of war. only one English Eng-lish conductor was employed in all the London theaters then producing light opera The lemiining COndUC-torships COndUC-torships were held by Germans and Austrians, nowadays reappearing in the roles of Swiss and Jugo-Slavs." |