In looking back over the years, details come to mind. Much anxiety used to be felt about Saturday nights, as bad weather meant a poor audience and knocked the box office receipts. Now, the audience is anxious for fear of uncomfortable delays on the steps during a storm, on account of the crowd. Another detail was the efforts that the women made long ago to brighten up the appearance of the Saturday evening house, by asking their friends in the boxes to wear gay clothes. * * * * * The policy of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association has always been to sell tickets at moderate prices. Tickets for the best seats for the first regular series of six concerts sold for $8.00. Students could buy tickets for the amphitheatre for $1.75 for fourteen rehearsals and $2.00 for fourteen concerts. The price of tickets has increased seventy per cent and operating expenses have increased five hundred per cent in twenty-five years, but considering this, the tickets are still moderate. A story is told by Mr. George T. Haley, of the Academy of Music Ticket Office, loyal friend to the orchestra, of how as a young assistant agent he was in charge of the window on the first day of the first sale for the Philadelphia Orchestra. He opened promptly at 8.30 a. m.; the first sale was about ten and the next about four in the afternoon. Now, his principal business in connection with the orchestra is to placate the people who cannot get the seats they want or get any seats at all. * * * * * The Business Management of the Association has been since 1915 in the hands of Mr. Arthur Judson, whose ability and that of the Assistant Manager, Mr. Louis A. Mattson, is well known. Mr. Judson manages, likewise, the Philharmonic Orchestra of New York and the Cincinnati Orchestra. Mr. Mattson manages the summer concerts in Fairmount Park, for which a number of Philadelphia Orchestra men are engaged. The ease with which a large amount of business is conducted, and one in which there is much detail, is due to the organizing talents of Mr. Judson and to the devotion and long training of the office staff under him. The Association is fortunate in having a manager of such rare business acumen, whose talents have developed as necessity arose; until it is safe to say that there is no more ably managed musical organization in the country than this. To Mr. Mattson falls the task of distributing the seats, no easy one in 1925, when there are almost none to dispose of. No mention of the business end of this enterprise would be complete without the names of Miss Ruth O’Neill, Miss Elizabeth M. Russell and Miss Margaret E. Pringle, not to forget Mr. Stokowski’s private secretary, Miss McGinty, who eases the thorny business path of an artist. * * * * *