Word: musician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House. Seventy performances in all were given. One of the recent personal triumphs of this season is that of Dwight Frye. He appeared in Six Characters in Search of an Author as the legitimate son; then in Rita Coventry as the piano tuner, who also was a musician. The latter was his most conspicuous success. He is at present receiving much praise for his work in a .small part in The Love Habit. The Poincare Government has, decided to do something about the morals of the Paris stage. "Foreign disparagement of French ethics must be stopped." Its first move...
...difficult not to grow lyrical in praise of the Friends of Music. Not only is their aim a very pretty one, but it is splendidly carried out by their conductor, Arthur Bodanzky. This musician, who also directs the orchestra at the Metropolitan Opera House, is distinctly a great personality. Tall and gaunt, with the characteristic long face and high forehead of a musician, he is a bundle of nervous energy and fire. He is by temperament a scholar, even an austere scholar, whose greatest devotion is unearthing gems out of the dust and debris of music. As an example...
...Laws, Jan Ignaz Paderewski. The University of Southern California has just conferred upon the famous Pole an honorary degree of legal science, presumably in celebration of his experiences as the Prime Minister of his native country. But, laws and premiership notwithstanding, Paderewski remains the ideal figure of a musician. During his present American tour he is seen in his most characteristic guise not so much in the formal parts of his program as in impromptu encores. During the applause after his last announced number, the lights on the stage go out, and in the shadow Paderewski takes his place...
...third. The Conventional little bird has informed us that it is likely to be an unusually good performance. Most popular of all, however, will be the Cambridge Amateur Operatic Company's "Mikado" which starts on Monday the twenty-sixth under the conductorship of Mr. Boris Ord, who is a musician of no mean repute not only in Cambridge...
Spaulding belongs to the famous Spaulding Sporting Goods fortune. His father was a brother of the late Albert G. Spaulding, the old baseball player who founded the establishment. Albert Spaulding, the violinst, was born to money. Desiring to become a musician, the way to musicianship was gilded for him. He could study where and with whom he pleased. But the family wealth has hurt him in his public career. He complains that people say of him that there is no reason for his playing a fiddle, since he does not need the money. Others hold that...