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...DIED. Herman Darewski, 64, Russian-born British composer whose K-K-K-Katy was stuttered by millions in World War I. . . ." [TIME, June...
Died. Herman Darewski, 64, Russian-born British composer whose K-K-K-Katy was stuttered by millions during World War I, onetime piano teacher to Princess Elizabeth; of a heart ailment; in London...
Coincidentally last week there rose at Covent Garden a ghost of another description. Seats had been taken out of the auditorium. Jazzman Herman Darewski (composer of "Whispering," "K-K-Katy") was playing for a ball, when suddenly he noticed his drummer drop his sticks, stare goggle-eyed into space. Darewski turned and saw (he said) an apparition of Wagner's Siegfried, helmeted and armed, stalking over the heads of the dancers. Darewski collapsed in a chair. Dancers flocked around him, said they could see nothing. But the incident gave rise to much whispering. It has long been rumored that...
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