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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...D. Collins, 2OI½ Ibs., British, clumsy, looked down at one of his large feet last week and perceived that he had stove it right through the racing shell in which he and seven other Cambridge undergraduates were preparing to row, next week, against Oxford. He, the stroke, was stricken with mortification and dismay. Sticking your foot through the shell at rowing is equivalent to trampling a hound in a hunt or blowing off your neighbor's hat at a grouse shoot. Fortunately for Cambridge, a new shell had already been ordered. When a shell was damaged...
...Fleishhacker. Soon, at the Anglo & London-Paris National Bank, there arrived a return present from Mr. Kingsbury. The Kingsbury gift consisted of two water-buffaloes, several crates of smaller animals, and a liveried bugler to announce the arrival of the menagerie. Buffaloes, animals, bugler were all sent C. O. D...
...Calkins is president of Calkins & Hoiden Inc., prominent Manhattan agency, books on advertising include Louder Please (Atlantic Monthly Press, $2.50), The Business of Advertising (D. Appleton & Co., $2.00), Business, the Civilizer (Little, Brown, & Co., $3.00), and The Advertising Man (Scnbner...