Word: fiddlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great. Already this season his recitals in Manhattan, Philadelphia, Ann Arbor, Toronto, have shown that, 'unlike many violin prodigies, his genius advances. This week he faced a supreme test-the Brahms Concerto with Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony. The Brahms is not showy music designed to demonstrate a fiddler's virtuosity.f Everyone knows now that Yehudi can play trills and double-stops with an assurance worthy of a Kreisler or a Heifetz. Brahms wrote music for grownups, music that is deeply contemplative and tender, faintly austere. People made frantic efforts to get tickets for the concert...
Died. Alanson Mellen ("Mellie") Dunham, 78, white-haired fiddler protege of Henry Ford; at Lewiston, Me. Mr. Ford, entranced by Mr. Dunham's rendition of "Turkey in the Straw" & "Boston Fancy," took him to Detroit for one of his old-fashioned parties. A vaudeville tour afterward did not go to his head. Playing on Broadway, he still wore mackinaw, rubber shoes, woolen shirt. In his own district, where there were lots of fiddlers, he was famed for his snowshoes. His proudest boast was that he equipped Rear-Admiral Robert Edwin Peary for snowshoeing to the North Pole...
...Author. In the days when Chicago was having a literary renaissance Ben Hecht was one of the better-known in a group that included Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters. Called variously iconoclast, intellectual mountebank, "in-sincere fiddler," "Pagliacci of the Fire Escape," Hecht was famed for his conversation; "his subtle innuendoes, his philosophical observations, his penetrating irony, his vehement indignation, his gentle persuasiveness, his dubious facts." Once a collaborator with Maxwell Bodenheim, Hecht soon quarreled with him: the quarrel is still going on.* Mustachioed, with rumpled hair, pouchy eyes, Ben Hecht looks like what...
...Author. Robert Nathan has written many books (11) for his age (37). Dark, quiet and divorced, he married again, lives in Manhattan, writes carefully and with difficulty. Says his friend and admirer Louis Bromfield: "He looks like his books." Among them: There is Another Heaven, Jonah, The Fiddler in Barly, The Woodcutter's House...
...drop whatever they were doing to engage him in extended and animated chats. Such was the charm of his tongue or his appearance that a chambermaid in a hotel, a respectable woman with a son, left her job to go walking with him. Other occasional companions were a gypsy fiddler, a bishop, a mayor. Once a beautiful peasant woman fell in love with him for a night, begged him to help her revenge herself on her absent and unfaithful husband. Baerlein was a perfect gentleman. Philosophical, he took everything as it came, let it go the same...