Word: posers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long study at the scene of the com- poser's activities and deep research into local and personal records have resulted in an account as detailed as a novel and written in much the same manner. Kaufman was fortunate in the choice of a subject for this style of writing since his principal character fits exactly into the mould which would be chosen by a romatic author...
...years Columbia's Dean Herbert Edwin Hawkes has dangled this poser before his freshman class in mathematics. Prize for solution, by solid geometry only, was an automatic A in the course. Fifteen flights of freshmen were baffled until this term when one Herman Gewirtz of Brooklyn slapped down a solution complete in 50 steps, plus drawings...
...sister Dorothy, who was falling clear of any possible support, with his legs, squeezed her in a scissors till the ground crew brought a net to catch her in. Then he dropped her to safety, not realizing that he had strangled her unconscious. She revived and is still top poser on her brothers' rickety framework...
...beard the Federation Board's meeting next week and, instrument in hand, force a vote on the ukulele's status. To plead her case she will present affidavits from famed musicians. Conductor Walter Damrosch heard her play last week, said it was "like raindrops in sunshine." Com-poser-Critic Deems Taylor said that he did not see why "a good ukulele player, such as Miss Breen, shouldn't be admitted to the musicians' union. Triangle players, snare drummers and expert sand block rubbers carry union cards...
...time or other, patrons who provided their material support in order that genius might flourish unhampered. The custom is now outworn but last week in San Francisco a semblance of it reappeared when heirs of the late Jacob and Rosa Stern, wealthy Jews, established a fund whereby Jewish Com- poser Ernest Bloch will be endowed for the next ten years at the rate of $5,000 a year. Composer Bloch is regarded by many as the greatest U. S. composer.* Yet his livelihood has had to come largely from teaching-from 1920 to 1925 as director at the Cleveland Institute...