HADLEY, HENRY KIMBALL American composer, was born in Somerville (Mass.), on Dec. 20, 1871. He studied in Boston and Vienna. In 1904 he went to Germany, where he was Kapellmeister at the Mainz Opera House for two seasons, and in 1909 produced his opera Sa fie. Hadley toured Europe in 1908 as a guest conductor, presenting his tone poem Salome, after Oscar Wilde's tragedy. He was conductor of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra (I 9o9–i I) and of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (1911-15) and became associate conductor of the N.Y. Philharmonic Orchestra in 1921. He has composed four other grand operas: A Night in Old Paris, Azora (Chicago Opera Company), Bianca (Society of American Singers), and Cleopatra's Night (Metropolitan Opera House) ; ode music for the Worcester (Mass.) Festival (6oth anniversary) and Resurgam for the Cincinnati Festival, 1923, in addition to four symphonies, overtures and cantatas, five tone poems, ballet suites and more than 150 songs. In 1923 he conducted in London, Stockholm and Amsterdam. He conducted a season, 1927, in Buenos Aires and in 193o was guest conductor of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. In 1934, he organized the Berkshire Symphonic Festivals.