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Sweden is known to contemporary artists principally for its sculpture, which Carl Milles has made world-famed, and for the beautiful work in glass, silver and furniture fostered by the Swedish Association of Arts & Crafts under renowned Dr. Gregor Paulsson and his successor, Dr. Ake Stavenow. Last spring a committee, including the Worcester Museum's rotund Director Francis Henry Taylor and Russell A. Plimpton, director of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, decided to pass up sculpture, try to assemble for U. S. showings a selection of old, not new, Swedish handicrafts. Bright, tactful Mr. Plimpton spent the summer...
Married. Mrs. Alfreda Mitchell Bingham, divorced wife of onetime (1924-33) U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham, mother of seven sons over 21 years old; to Henry Gregor, 51, pianist and composer; in Manhattan...
...Michael Gregor, who built the first private Russian airplane, a modified Bleriot, in 1910 and sold it to Major Seversky's father. A War flyer, Gregor arrived in the U. S. in 1921, designed several planes including the Bird in which Charles Augustus Lindbergh taught his wife to fly. Gregor had a hand in the design of the Seversky amphibian, is currently freelancing...
...Szymanowski was generally looked upon as Chopin's worthiest successor. He was born in Timoshovka, Ukraine in 1883. At 17 he wrote his first piano pieces, tenderly reminiscent of Chopin. Next year he went to Warsaw Conservatory and made friends with Miecyzslaw Kierlowicz, Ludomir Rozycki, Apolinary Szeluto and Gregor Fitelberg, all students, all destined for important roles in contemporary Polish music. The young men founded the society called Young Poland in Music...
...life, and this Suite in E major is one of his more recent productions. Of the magnificent Brahms Symphony, little need be said except "Don't miss it!" During the holidays, the regular Friday and Saturday concerts fall on December 24 and 26, and January 1 and 2. Gregor Piatigorsky is to be the soloist at the former pair and Sergei Rachmaninoff at the latter...