Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late in the spring of 1867 a youthful musician harbored secret plans for running away to join a circus band. For seven weary years he had assiduously scraped his practice fiddle; now with all the confidence that the maturity of his thirteen summers could impart, he determined to practice no more. Henceforth, ho too, like his father, would command applause from large audiences. Informed of the project, his parent anticipated its execution by apprenticing him to the marine corps band of which he was a member. In order to prevent the reoccurrence of similar fugitive aspirations, a stern officer...
...Manhattan art dealers know a little old gentleman with baggy trousers, a beard and a beady eye who is the city's most persistent exhibition visitor. All of them know that he is Louis Michel Eilshemius M. A., by his own admission painter, poet, musician, inventor, marksman, and "Ex Fancy Amateur Dancer." He loves to buttonhole strangers in hallways and describe his own superior accomplishments. He was once wealthy. He is still listed in the Social Register, lives in a brownstone house on East 57th Street and has spent a fortune on strange pamphlets and books to prove that...
Collision. Olga (June Walker) pretends to be in love with a celebrated musician in order to spur the attentions of her real attachment, Dr. Gestzi (Geoffrey Kerr). Unhappily the musician is reported missing in a train wreck. So Olga feigns insanity, declares that Dr. Gestzi is her missing fiancé. Wise therapist, he humors her with a honeymoon, drugs her when she becomes unmaidenly and finally wakes up to the notion that he is in love with her himself...
...married Setsuko Koizumi, was adopted into her family, became a Japanese citizen and a professor in the Imperial University. He died in 1904, leaving three sons and a daughter. Kazuo, 39, lives on inherited money, collects curios. Iwao, 35, tall, handsome,soldierly, teaches school. Kiyoshi, 32, is a musician. All married Japanese women. Daughter Susuko, an invalid, is unmarried...
...President Scott forgot that it is almost essential for a great musician to be prodigious, that musicians are judged dispassionately as artists, regardless of their numerical...