Word: musician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ernest Henry Schelling, children's musician, suddenly cabled from Celigny, Switzerland, that he would play a wedding march over the trans-Atlantic wireless telephone to Manchester, Mass., when Anne Pullen Dennett, a friend's daughter, was being married. Her parents, prudent, employed John Wallace Goodrich, dean of the New England Conservatory of Music, to play Mendelssohn's march right at the wedding, clearly and on time. Later the Schelling performance crackled from a loud speaker...
...foreheads, strong jaws. Musically, the three are scattered. The two Jews write so that people sing their songs. Cadman, although by no means profound, writes for listeners. The Gershwins and Berlin are in the market places, night clubs; he in the parlor and concert hall. Berlin is admittedly no musician. But Gershwin is. And both are nimble tumblejacks with chords. Cadman, people find, who have followed his 25 years of music from organ compositions to Indian songs and finally operas, is rigid in his style. They ask: Can he adapt himself to popular sound-pictures; will he debase himself...
...when he was three, Harry Braun arrived from Russia. A melancholy urchin, he lounged in Manhattan ghettoes, not playing with the tougher ragamuffins but crooning to himself. By the time that he was eleven, it was plain to Mrs. Braun that he would be the world's greatest musician. She bought him a $10 fiddle and said, "Play...
John Erskine, Columbia University professor, musician, novelist (The Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad, Adam and Eve). Reason: Prohibition...
...emotionalism and intellectual aristocracy of her Art. Incidentally the King-Emperor, who has only the very slightest taste for music, cannot but appreciate the portability of Miss Ruth Draper, who can bring an entire play into Windsor Castle at the Royal Scottish estate at Balmoral as easily as a musician could enter with a flute. Officials of the American Embassy were reluctantly obliged, last week, to request the U. S. citizenesses presented not to talk afterwards for publication about any matter appertaining to the Court. Presentee Miss Clementine Miller of Columbus, Ind., solved the problem of what to tell...