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...machine designed to hurt the ears of several hundred people at a time was grimly experimented with last week, by Prime Minister Otto Braun of Prussia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Prussian Scream Test | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Though Prime Minister Braun is a humanitarian and a Socialist, he has grown tired and angry at the conduct of Communist and Monarchist deputies who constantly obstruct proceedings of the Prussian Diet by their catcalls and hoots (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Prussian Scream Test | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Sixteen years ago, when he was three, Harry Braun arrived from Russia. A melancholy urchin, he lounged in Manhattan ghettoes, not playing with the tougher ragamuffins but crooning to himself. By the time that he was eleven, it was plain to Mrs. Braun that he would be the world's greatest musician. She bought him a $10 fiddle and said, "Play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Brain & Braim | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Surprisingly soon after his mother bought the fiddle for him, Harry Braun met Leopold Auer, greatest teacher of violinists. Leopold Auer was interested in meeting the adolescent minstrel as he is in meeting all youthful violinists; he remained interested in Harry Braun. When Harry Braun was a little older he met Zinc-King August Heckscher, who gave him a $25,000 Stradivarius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Brain & Braim | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...Harry Braun's most recent acquaintance is shrewd Banker Otto Hermann Kahn. Last week it became known that Otto Kahn had not given him any money with which to further his studies; instead, he had asked Harry Braun to come to Europe with him. This week, fiddler and financier sail together; after that there will be scenes abroad in which Harry Braun plays for kings and queens or performs as soloist for Paris philharmonic societies or the London Symphony, while Otto Kahn stands and listens. In New York, a job with the Philharmonic awaits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Brain & Braim | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

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