Word: archambeau
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...Archambeau Bust...
Since 1906, one George Archambeau, 61, has been janitor in the Harvard School of Architecture in the old Fogg Museum Building. Among his duties has been dusting the statues in the Fogg entrance hall, which include that of William Crown inshield Endicott, Secretary of War under Grover Cleveland, sculptured by John Wilson of the School of Architecture. Janitor Archambeau has long been an intimate of the school's instructors and students, a patient listener-in on all sorts of architectural talk. For the past year he played pinochle every Sunday night with Instructor Wilson. Last week, as George Archambeau...
...recital by lwan d'Archambeau, former violinist of the Flonzaley Quartet, and Bruce Simonds, planist, a member of the Yale Music Faculty, is to be given tomorrow evening in Paine Hall, Harvard Music Building, at 8.15 o'clock through the courtesy of Mrs. F. S. Coolidge...
...Players. The original Flonzaley players were Adolfo Betti and Alfred Pochon, violin player; Iwan d'Archambeau, 'cellist; Ugo Ara, violinist. The first three are in the Quartet today but Ara left to join the Italian army in 1917. Ill health prevented his return and Louis Bailly, now of the Curtis Institute, succeeded him until 1924. Then Felicien d'Archambeau, brother of Cellist Iwan, played for a season and since then Nicholas Moldavan. The Quartet now stands with Betti, an Italian; Pochon, a Swiss; d'Archambeau, a Belgian; Moldavan, a Russian. Yet so dominated are they...
Violinist Pochon is the wittiest and most talkative of the four. He had studied medicine, composed chamber music. His wife is a Virginian; he has a stepson of 14 and one child of his own. Cellist D'Archambeau is also married. Violinist Betti and Viola-player Moldavan are both bachelors, the one confirmed, the other eligible...