Word: musicianly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Vladimir Kavapetoff world famous scientist and expert musician will speak at a meeting to which all members of the University are invited in Pierce 202 at 10 o'clock today. His subject will be "Engineering...
...simple methods, plays to his pupils a great deal, is at the same time careful not to stifle their individuality. Like Auer his dominant traits are sweetness and a gentle, kindly humor. Like Josef Hofmann, Albert Spalding, Mischa Elman, Alfred Hertz, Pablo Casals, Maria Jeritza and many another famed musician, he is a brilliant chess-player. In San Francisco he used to carry a little chessboard in his pocket. It was no unusual sight to see him take it out on a trolley car, set up a game...
...fertile field for the archeologist's shovel. Although many Stone Age relics have been unearthed there, they have been somewhat neglected for findings of the more brilliant Minoan, Egyptian, Grecian and Roman periods. Feeling that prehistoric man was much smarter than is commonly believed, Charles Gates Dawes, banker, musician, ambassador and archeologist, has been taking a holiday in France and Spain to co-ordinate Stone Age findings. With him went Professor George Grant MacCurdy of Yale University, director of the American School of Prehistoric Research in Europe and Addison L. Green, chairman of that school's board...
...organized a circus parade of his contemporaries and in blue tights, playing a mandolin, led it down Maple Street in Evansville, Ind. riding on his stepfather's horse. Later he became assistant to the Great Doctor Dunbar, medical showman; still later he was a juggler, tumbler, musician, dancer, ventriloquist. After touring the U. S. in vaudeville acts he became a Manhattan headliner in the Vanities. In his house at Lake Hopatcong, N. J., resting on a silver standard, is a baseball which Babe Ruth has not autographed. On his private golf course is a green built in the shape...
Bushy-haired, Rome-born Maestro Sal-maggi has presented grand opera for many a year. Great & good friend of the late Enrico Caruso ("with him I was like a brother"), onetime mandolin teacher to the late Italian Queen Margherita, all his life a musician & music promoter, Maestro Salmaggi nevertheless has no love for an age that has reduced music largely to phonographs, radios. Feeling no musician can avoid the temptation of thus being reproduced he cries with Latin vehemence: "I would rather have a boy of mine [he is nine times a father] be a barber than a musician. Anybody?...