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...called "cold, classical" and the "warm" jazz tone was given this reviewer the other day by one of the Hruby brothers, of the Cleveland Orchestra. These men have been a tradition for years with the Orchestra, taking various trumpet positions within it. Last year I printed remarks of Fritz Reiner to the effect that he wanted to get jazz men for his trumpet section because he felt that the clear and perfect tone of the average classical man was too cold for what he wanted, and that the slight vibrato that the jazz men added to their tones made...
...until passage home could be arranged for them. They had been booked on the Japanese Tatuta Maru but reports of British war vessels waiting offshore to grab them changed this plan. In charge of getting the Columbus men back to the Fatherland is Adolf Hitler's crony. Captain Fritz Wiedemann, Consul General at San Francisco. Waterfront talk was that, now that the British were on the alert, he would try shipping them in small lots on different ships, perhaps even on the Japanese "fishing boats" with which California waters abound...
Many a music student or musical amateur has itched to play a part in a fine symphony orchestra or string quartet. To give such amateurs a chance to play in professional company, a Viennese violinist named Fritz Rothschild four years ago invented a new kind of phonograph record. With other able professionals, Rothschild recorded standard classical quartets and sonatas. Each record was made with one part missing. For violinists he made a violinless quartet, for cello players a cello-less one. By playing one of these records, the lone amateur violinist or cellist could dub in his part as best...
Although it is too late to worry about the type of charge against Browder, the public should be concerned with the chance of such weak accusations against other radicals. To accuse Fritz Kuhn of embezzlement is one thing: thousands of other men have received the same sentence. But to pull a rarely known charge of passport evasion out of the hat is a far more serious matter. It proves that Browder was not treated like any other citizen, that the government was using every trick and cunning to scalp the big Red Chief...
Marriage revealed. Fritz Mandl, 39, Austrian munitions manufacturer and ex-Fascist bigwig, divorced husband of Hedy Kiesler Lamarr Mandl Markey (Ecstasy) ; and Herta Schneider, blonde onetime Austrian actress; place and time his secret...