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...River. Founded 50 years ago by western artists and art-patrons, it has" about 1,500 members throughout the world, meets every week. The Bohemian is the only club in the world to exchange with New York's Lambs, includes such famed artists as Ignace Jan Paderewski, Fritz Kreisler, Lawrence Tibbett. Artist members pay no dues, contribute their artistic efforts instead. Last fortnight the Bohemians began their annual midsummer encampment and festival, called the "Jinks," at their redwood camp, Bohemian Grove...
...filling a hall in hard times. Mischa Elman's sweet, sentimental tones would scarcely blend very well with, for example, the fast-fingered playing of Vladimir Horowitz. It would be difficult to imagine cool, imperturbable Jascha Heifetz teaming with turbulent Ignace Jan Paderewski, or to picture grave Fritz Kreisler playing with elfin José Iturbi...
...Herr Professor who wrote the music for last week's operetta and stood in the pit to conduct it was just as familiar to the Viennese audience as the romantic Viennese story. He was Violinist Fritz Kreisler, born and brought up in Vienna, son of a Viennese doctor, soldier in a Viennese regiment, sole support in dark post-War days of many a Viennese orphan. For Sissy, his second operetta since the War, Kreisler wrote charming, familiar music. He used themes from his "Caprice Viennois" and from "Liebes-freud," violin pieces so fluent and lilting that longest-faced critics...
Early last summer Kreisler thought he would have to part with some of the rare books and manuscripts which he has stored in his house near Berlin but he and Mrs. Kreisler (the former Harriet Lies, daughter of a U. S. tobacco merchant) went to Monte Carlo, won $10.000 which tided them over...
...Thee I Sing, Flying Colors, Take a Chance and Gay Divorce. He lent his expert touch to George Gershwin's Pardon My English which opened last week in Philadelphia; to Walk a Little Faster in which Beatrice Lillie opened this week; to Sissy, Fritz Kreisler's operetta opening this month in Vienna. Bennett's jobs are piled high ahead. He is collaborating with Critic Robert A. Simon of The New Yorker on an opera. Philip Barry is having him write a musical background for a new play. Kreisler and Iturbi have commissioned him to write them concertos...