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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tonight. The four musicians are Hungarians, from Budapest: from where they have come by way of Paris, in order to play for Mrs. Coolidge at Pittsfield. Tonight they will play the same program which they rendered last week, but an assisting viola will be used in one additional number. Martina's "Tumult", which has previously been heard at Symphony Hall last autumn Lectures of interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/4/1928 | See Source »

Where had she left her jewels? That was what one Martina Davis was wondering as she stepped into the Manhattan shoe-store of Louis D'Ascali, known as "The Singing Cobbler." Why, only the night before, when she left with lilting Louis the shoes she had now come to fetch, she had still had the lost brooches, rings. She remembered how she had loitered in the store, chatting with D'Ascali about the days when he studied music in Milan. Tonight he was not so nice; why, he seemed positively mocking. Why did he not stop singing when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Louis | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

...victorious but weary opponent to duck, cover up, retreat. No use; his arms were slack with fatigue. At the end of the 15th round, the referee lifted the hand of the challenger, Charley ("Phil") Rosenberg, thus giving him the title of the champion, Eddie ("Cannoonball") Martin (real name Edward Martina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Martin vs. Rosenberg | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...Miss Beaux, Manhattan artist in her late fifties, is self-taught. In 1896, six of her portraits were hung together in the May Salon—a rare distinction. She has painted Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. Martina Brandegee, the late President Sharpless of Haverford, all exhibited in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Ill Advised | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

...seems meanwhile to have recalled that she did see it, and upon her admission Mr. Chaloner has magnanimously come forward with the announcement that he will give her a prize of $6,000 anyway, so that she may study in Paris along with this year's winner, Miss Martina Speere (Waterbury, Conn.). Said Miss Lange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confession | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

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