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Florence Kathryn Lewis, a plump, soft-voiced young woman of 25, sat tensely blowing smoke at a mystery thriller in her suite in Manhattan's swank St. Regis Hotel one day last week. Born in dingy Panama, Ill., she had grown up as the daughter of a rising young union official in Springfield. By the time she was ready, her still rising father had been able to send her to the Kirk School in Bryn Mawr, Pa., then on to Bryn Mawr College. But college seemed dull after living with her dynamic father and his problems; after two years...
Gian-Carlo Menotti was born near Milan. His father was a wealthy importer who did business with Colombia. His mother taught Gregorian chant in a local church. Save for her, young Gian-Carlo had little music instruction until he was 18. In that year Father Menotti died, and Gian-Carlo went to South America to set tle his accounts. Later, in New York, he met Rosario Scalero of Curtis Institute who got him a scholarship there...
Horatio William Parker, who belonged to one of New England's proudest families, was born in Auburndale, Mass, in 1863. Until he was 14 young Parker took little interest in music. Within two years he became a church organist in Dedham, later in Roxbury, forsook his job three years later to study at the Hochschule fur Musik in Munich. In 1886 he returned to the U. S. with a Bavarian bride, got organ posts with churches in Brooklyn, Harlem and Manhattan...
Poland has had few eminent composers. Most people would be hard put to think of any beside Chopin. Karol Szymanowski was generally looked upon as Chopin's worthiest successor. He was born in Timoshovka, Ukraine in 1883. At 17 he wrote his first piano pieces, tenderly reminiscent of Chopin. Next year he went to Warsaw Conservatory and made friends with Miecyzslaw Kierlowicz, Ludomir Rozycki, Apolinary Szeluto and Gregor Fitelberg, all students, all destined for important roles in contemporary Polish music. The young men founded the society called Young Poland in Music...
...Born 57 years ago in Havre of a solid, bourgeois family, he became a clerk in his father's importing house, started to paint as a hobby about 1895. Five years later he went to Paris to make art his profession, stuck to conservative Beaux Arts training until the summer of 1905 when he saw his first picture by Henri Matisse. "Confronted by that picture," said Raoul Dufy, "I understood all the new reason for painting...