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...death mask of the late Queen Louise of Prussia, the famed flute of Frederick the Great, a pair of duelling pistols given by Napoleon I to General Kléber, and many another trinket formerly preserved at Klein-Glienicke Castle, Potsdam, Germany by Prince Friedrich Leopold Hohenzollern, cousin of the former Kaiser, went on the auction block. While plebeian agents refrained from bidding, Representatives of Kaiser Wilhelm bought Frederick the Great's gold watch. Prices: watch, $1,190; pistols...
...years Pianists Maier & Pattison have given two-piano recitals the length and breadth of the U. S.. in Europe, Australia, New Zealand. Their success has inspired other two-piano teams. Two-piano literature has increased because of them: Composers Leo Sowerby, John Alden Carpenter, Edward Burlingame Hill and Leopold Godowsky have written music for them. But the two-piano repertory is limited at best and because they feel that they have pretty well exhausted it, because they are determined not to get stale, they are disbanding after this season. Last week, after farewell concerts throughout the Midwest...
...Leopoldine ("Polly"), 1916 debutante; named for her grandfather, Jewish Conductor Leopold Damrosch, founder of the New York Symphony; pianist, dog fancier...
Tchaikovsky's Concerto in D by Violinist Mischa Elman and the London Symphony Orchestra under John Barbirolli (Victor, $10) - Elman's mellifluous tone marks this performance of the Concerto originally dedicated to Elman's teacher, the late great Leopold Auer, who rejected it because of its technical difficulties...
ASCERTAINED AND MEASURES PLANNED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEM AND WITH THE EQUALLY IMPORTANT FACTS OF HUMAN NATURE. Chairman of the planning committee, Aldo Leopold of Madison, Wis., chief of the American Game Survey, submitted the new program. The committee had found that American farmers can do more toward increasing game than any other agency by making game a secondary farm crop. Six years of compensating game-wise farmers in Texas, for example, have increased good shooting preserves to 2,500,000 acres. They recommended that the farmer be protected from lawless hunters, be amply rewarded for his work.* Quail, pheasants...