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TIME deplores comparison of Nordic Stefansson with a Bermuda Negro, even by himself...
Married. Percy Aldridge Grainger, famed musical virtuoso; to Viola Strom, Swedish poet, painter; in the Hollywood (Calif.) Bowl, in the presence of 22,000 people who had just heard the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra play "To a Nordic Princess," composed for the occasion and directed by Bridegroom Grainger...
...third new thing for him to do in the Hollywood amphitheatre was to marry a Viola Strom. "To a Nordic Princess" was written for her. After its rendition, Australian Percy and Nordic Viola would take each other respectively for man and wife, with orchestra for altar, vast audience for attendant friends and in the glare of light...
Another new thing for him was the première of his new composition, "To a Nordic Princess." His first public concerts were at the piano, when he was 10, in Melbourne, his birthplace. His mother taught him the instrument. Later she accompanied him on tours on all the continents. In Norway he became the friend of the late Edward Hagerup Grieg. He was chosen to play the Grieg Piano Concerto at the Leeds Festival (1907), and after Grieg's death he played Memorial concerts for him at Copenhagen and London. To Grieg, Percy Grainger owes his start...
Buxom, blonde, Nordic Fraulein Rasche came to the U. S. to exhibit her able stunt flying, to fly back across the Atlantic. For many weeks, she had been haunting the flying fields, quarreling with her unnamed backers, posing for photographs. A green and red Bellanca was ready for her trans-Atlantic hop, yet not available until additional safety devices should be installed. Fraulein Rasche fretted, pouted for the press...