Unsigned in Stage Magazine, 1936:
“The amount of absolutely first-class music to be heard on the radio at this time of year makes this a different country from what it was five years ago. You can hardly find a hamlet so obscure, or a person so ignorant, that symphonies and operas and big soloists are out of his ken. It is when people begin to feel personal and possessive about art that art is most alive.Right now the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan, the Boston and Minneapolis and St. Louis and other orchestras, Bori and Lily Pons and Tibbett and Thomas are all forceful public possessions. Nobody can blame the man in Clifton Forge, Virginia, to whom Toscanini was just another Italian name a few years ago. But this man and a million others now make a ceremony of Sunday afternoon at three, or Sunday night at eight; and try to tell these people that the great music they listen to, and its purveyors, don’ belong to them. You’d be surprised at the vehement comeback.”