Word: pelikan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Lillian Leitzel Pelikan Cordona (Lillian Leitzel), 37, famed circus gymnast; after a fall when an iron trapeze ring broke; in Copenhagen, Denmark. Born in Prague. Czechoslovakia, she came to the U.S. at the age of 17, tiny, graceful, with the mop of gold-bronze hair which always distinguished her. She trouped with "The Four Leamy Ladies," joined Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey circuses in 1920. Thereafter she was the only artist to appear alone in her act, with single spotlight and bass drums booming. Her most famed stunt was "the giant half flange": rolling herself upward on a suspended rope...
Died. Dr. Leopold Auer, 85, famed violinist, teacher, transcriber of violin music; of pneumonia, at a sanitarium in Dresden, Saxony. Born at Veszprim, Hungary, he studied at Budapest, Vienna. Hanover. He married a Russian, Nadine Pelikan, was named professor at the Imperial Conservatory in Petrograd. His pupils persuaded him to go to New York in 1918, where he divorced his first wife, married a Mme Bogutska-Stein. His greatest pupils: Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz, Toscha Seidel, Efrem Zimbalist...