Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a leading architect, Edwin Bergstrom of Los Angeles, not only scolded his fellows for their wastefulness of income but scoffed at highfaluting notions. Said he: "Architecture is not a true profession in the sense that the other fine arts are professions. The musician, painter, and the sculptor create with their own hands their finished art, but the architect would make a sorry show if he should build his dreams. Of all professions, he alone must depend upon others to give form and substance...
...critics say unanimously, a great musician. To appraise him seems almost impertinent and so they write of his playing in awkward, halting sentences which struggle with big words like "pellucid" and "perfection...
...married to an impecunious musician, who forgives her for one lapse. She takes on a struggling scrivener, her second affair, and leaves her husband when that entity softly reminds her that after all, he is her husband, and won't she have dinner with him? For four months she lives with the scrivener, despite the plea of her now thrice-wed mother, who begs Ellen not to tramp the path of dalliance. Ellen is on the verge of another affair just as she learns that her mother, running off from Husband III, has killed herself. On hearing the news...
...famous European musician who is the first to serve under the Lamb gift has visited this country several times on concert and lecture tours. On one of these trips he acted as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He is held in high repute in his native land, serving as musical advisor to the Rumanian court on several occasions. He has also conducted orchestras and given concerts in Paris and other foreign cities...
...certain denizens of the Panama Canal Zone with the request that he give the bat to famed baseball player Babe Ruth. The bat, made out of a lignum-vitae railroad tie, was four ounces over weight. Babe Ruth last week in a Manhattan gymnasium boxed famed musician Paul Whiteman...