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Chicago's Helen Curtis has a system comparable to the Oxford. Boston's Phil Saltman, in a more brash, jazzy way, and Oakland, Calif.'s E. Robert Schmitz, in a more highbrow way, have pioneered in teaching new methods. Though teachers like these are busy teaching other teachers, the oldtimers are still in the majority, and most U.S. piano-moppets must still struggle with Czerny...
...Hollywood correspondent declared: "To divulge her name would be the worst possible breach of journalistic faith." The Symphony invites conductors, well and little known, to preside over its sessions. José Iturbi, Igor Stravinsky, Georg Szell, Arnold Schönberg were glad of the chance. Erich Wolfgang Korngold, highbrow-turned-movie-composer, showed up with only 16? in his pocket. Nine members of the orchestra were assessed 1? each to make up his 25?. Favorite conductor so far has been Bruno Walter, who exclaimed at the end of his concert: "This is paradise." Positions in the orchestra are rotated...
Back in the days when Dr. Archibald T. "Doc" Davison, master-builder of the present Crimson chorus, first took over, the club never sang anything but college songs. It scorned "highbrow" compositions, and stuck strictly to such lamp-post and bath-tub harmonies as "Bulldog on the Bank," or "Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair...
Once a week he shaves and drives himself to Manhattan where he dutifully makes the rounds of 57th Street's art galleries. A great admirer of highbrow art, he speaks with reverence of Picasso, Pascin and the abstractionists, curiously dislikes surrealism. Wherever he goes he makes sketches, works them up later into cartoon ideas...
George Price's veneration for highbrow art goes back to his early infancy, when he lived near the late U.S. realist and cowboy painter Pop Hart in Coytesville, N.J. Price never went near an art school. He worked for General Electric as an inspector of soldering, did odd layout jobs in printing offices, finally landed with a poster and theatrical scenery outfit where he painted backdrops for vaudeville houses. In 1927, he went to Paris, spent four months drawing. After he got back to the U.S. he crashed The New Yorker with a $30 cartoon, has been cartooning ever...