Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Comedians by Antoine actors reciting something turgid by Moliere, this great but florid painting was once the property of sour-faced Philosopher Voltaire, who gave it to his great admirer, Frederick the Great of Prussia. Claiming it as his personal property, Wilhelm II was able to ship it out of Germany to his exile at Doom, later was forced to sell it to Sir Joseph Duveen who passed it on for a handsome consideration to Mr. Bache...
...46th season of the Chicago Symphony came to an end last week with Associate Conductor Hans Lange on the podium. Regular Conductor Frederick Stock is so old and ailing these days that Chicago rarely sees him. The rumor that he will resign is not confirmed. But Chicagoans had another resignation to mull over, and they paid their respects to Concertmaster Mischa Mischakoff by standing and cheering him a full five minutes. As concertmaster with the new NBC Orchestra under Toscanini and Rodzinski, Mischakoff will have an enviable post. Chicago will have lost its best violinist...
...first violin. Two years later he lit out of Russia, went to Manhattan, placed first in a contest of 500 violinists and got a chance to solo with the Philharmonic. Walter Damrosch made Mischakoff concertmaster of the New York Symphony, now defunct. Stokowski took him to Philadelphia, whence Frederick Stock got him for Chicago...
...Died. Frederick G. ("Teddy") Oke, 51, Toronto stockbroker; after a month's illness; in Toronto. A onetime hockey professional, he made a market killing in mining stocks, promoted many a women's sports team, sank millions in the International Hockey League. Ruined by the 1929 crash, he ordered his women's softball team disbanded last autumn when he discovered that the girls were smoking...
Died. Captain the Hon. Frederick Edward Guest, 61, polo-playing onetime (1921-22) British Secretary of State for Air, cousin of British Tory Winston Churchill, father of famed U. S. Poloist Winston Frederick Churchill Guest; of pleurisy; at Sunbury-on-Thames, England. His wife, steel heiress Amy Phipps of Pittsburgh, backed Amelia Earhart Putnam's first transatlantic flight in 1928 when Captain Guest dissuaded her from attempting the adventure herself...