Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talkative, Wisconsin-born musician in her late 40'$, Lotta Van Buren is the ablest authority on old instruments in the U. S. She studied piano with Harold Bauer, turned to lecturing in schools and colleges, accompanying herself on portable spinets and virginals. Seven years ago Yale University gave her her first big job -restoration of its fine Steinert collection of 50 antique instruments. Since then she has done similar work for Barnard College, the Beethoven Association, Cooper Union, many a private owner and John D. Rockefeller's picture-postcard Williamsburg, Va. Miss Van Buren has a notable collection...
Married. Aloah Dallas Elk, 26, blind musician, protégée of the Dallas (Tex.) Elks Club which adopted her as an orphan, had her legally named Dallas Elk; and William Parks, 30, blind Chicago organist; in Chicago...
...bald, tangle-bearded Alfred Hertz and the San Francisco Symphony opened the tenth annual summer concerts in the Woodland Theatre at Hillsborough, Calif. These concerts are the intense concern of rich Mrs. Leonora Wood Armsby, friend of many a famed musician. From her experience as patron-director of the concerts, Mrs. Armsby has written a book. Musicians Talk in which she frequently refers to visitors at her home-Gabrilowitsch, Hertz, Tibbett, Molinari, Walter, Coates- as "the celebrities." This summer's Hillsborough celebrities: Richard Lert, Basil Cameron, Jose Iturbi...
...popular" musician takes his gauge from his phonograph records. At Manhattan's smart Gramophone Shop Ray Noble sells the best. At Macy's his only competitors are Guy Lombardo and the Casa Lomas...
...Noble has never been known to hum "Goodnight, Sweetheart." Nor has he ever met his nephew, famed now for having turned out some of the best dance records in England. But only three blocks away from St. Thomas' last week, Ray Noble began a job which any young musician might envy. He undertook a long-time engagement in the window-walled Rainbow Room, Rockefeller Center's smart night club. Significantly, an Englishman was bringing dance music to the country which supplies Europe with most of its jazz...