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...cover of your Feb. 2, issue, you have reproduced a sketch of Fritz Kreisler which, to my mind, is the best I have seen of this great violinist...
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...alacrity of their 40 fingers were compressed into a single hand, if the sweetness that shakes from their four wooden boxes were in a single tone, only then would their plural be equal to a certain famed singular. Recently, that singular got off a boat. He, Fritz Kreisler, "World's Greatest Violinist," had come to the U. S. for a concert tour...
...violinists, even had they the public to make possible such a schedule, would have the stamina to carry it out. Kreisler has the courage of his popularity. Urbane, well-built, his face framed with grizzling hair, he is famed for two characteristics-his impeccable courtesy, his freedom from mannerism...
...their patriotic allegiance, heard that he was serving as a Captain in the Austrian Army on the Russian front, they bitterly and justly reviled the implacable machine which held a famed violinist as of no more, no less importance than a butcher's apprentice of like military rank. Kreisler, on the other hand, found a method of using his musical knowledge for the benefit of the implacable machine. Hearing Death's orchestration booming, sputtering, whistling, mewing, he faced the music, inclined his ear. "Accustomed to the sound of deadly missiles," said he, 'I began to make observations...