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Bewildered by a changing traffic light halfway across a busy Manhattan street corner, famed, 66-year-old Viennese Violinist Fritz Kreisler stumbled into a speeding truck, was taken comatose to a hospital, with fractured skull, other serious injuries...
...sometimes gets into the news when its Tavernkeeper "Turkey" Gehrke takes to his bed, to sleep through the winter. (So far this year, he has not retired.) Last week, Watertown made news for yet another reason: it had its best, and almost its only, high-brow concerts since Fritz Kreisler played there 20 years...
Tall, lean, balding Joseph Szigeti (rhymes with spaghetti) is not the silky-slickest violinist in the world (Jascha Heifetz is), nor the velvety-mellowest (Fritz Kreisler is). But for flawless taste and all-round performance, Fiddler Szigeti gets the votes of most critics, fiddlers, composers, fastidious concert-fanciers. The 15 years, on & off, that Szigeti has fiddled in the U. S. have given him a taste for such U. S. diversions as listening to swing and the radio. Last week radio "jaywalkers"-as he calls dial-twiddlers-had a chance to hear Szigeti...
...Rugged Cross; for Catholics, no Rosary; for Jews, no Eili Eili. There will be no tunes by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern. Rachmaninoff, Kreisler...
...honor of genial, grizzled Viennese Fritz Kreisler, The Bohemians, some 1,000 classical musicians, sat down to dinner at Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, put on a glittering musical evening, topped it off by confronting Fiddler Kreisler with Fiddler Albert Spalding decked out in mustache and grey bangs, looking wonderfully like the guest of the evening, and sawing at one of his tunes with confusingly Kreislerian dexterity...