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...four years, during World War I, Texan Knott lambasted Kaiser Wilhelm and Emperor Franz Josef. His savage drawings were reprinted all over the U. S., ater were published in a book. The war over, Cartoonist Knott grew genial again, adopted a lanky, mustachioed character, 'Old Man Texas," based on a real Texan, he late James A. ("Uncle Jimmy") Boyd. Death came to Old Man Texas one day a year ago. Four days later, John Knott's ellow artist, Adolf Hitler, sent his troops torming into Poland. Last week Artist Knott, busy again at 61 lambasting the new overlord...
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major (Saxon State Orchestra, Karl Bohm conducting, with Walter Gieseking; Columbia: 8 sides). But for the still-smoldering fire of two grand old men of pianism (Josef Hofmann and Sergei Rachmaninoff) French-born, 44-year-old Walter Gieseking would be ranked by most connoisseurs as today's No. i pianist. Here Pianist Gieseking gives Beethoven's most lyric piano concerto its finest recording to date...
European exiles who arrived last week to take up temporary residence in the U. S.: Elsa Schiaparelli, Parisian couturiere (to lecture and get some clothes-she "hasn't a hat to her name"); Madame Josef Beck, wife of Poland's onetime Foreign Minister (now "somewhere in Rumania"); ex-Empress Zita of Austria and her youngest daughter. Archduchess Elisabeth (more ex-royal children to follow later); French Composer Darius Milhaud (Le pauvrc Matelot) with his wife and 10-year-old son; Novelist Julian Green (The Closed Garden, The Dark Journey}, pessimistic Paris-born American who has preferred...
...Piano Teachers, and in competitions of young listeners to the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. She now studies at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan, has an I. Q. of 185 (showing a mental age of 16). One of her two piano teachers is an assistant of Pianist Josef Hofmann. Able Conductor Antonia Brico drills Philippa in conducting, score reading...
...Good Hope to the Pacific coast and on around to the Bosporus, Decca had collected a rich variety of old and new music of the people, by the people and - at 35? a crack - for a good many people. Album items: Songs of the South African Veld, sung by Josef Marais and his Bushveld band. Part Huguenot, part Dutch and a lot of just plain cowboy is the music of the Transvaal. Sarie Marais, the song of a Boer girl waiting in the mealies (maize fields) by the old thorn tree for her lover to come back from fighting...