Roosevelt Standard | 1939-01-05 | Page 5 | U. S. Tops in Music

U S tops in music in recent years thanks to the radio americans have acquired a love and an understanding of music that would surprise most europeans we hear everything the world has to offer and dissatisfied and cynical though I 1 am about a lot of other things on our musical scene I 1 believe that our taste and our public today are the most cosmopolitan litan and the most exacting in the world it has long been a matter of common agreement among artists that our musical life is the richest and fullest on the globe practically every everybody bod y even the english admits that today now new york is the musical capital of the world carleton carleton smith in esquire magazine ma a