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...Benton from Sayre, Okla., who frankly admits that he changed his name to make it sound bigger abroad. Joe Benton was a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Oklahoma in 1920. As a singer he was a pupil of the late great Jean de Reszke, a protégé of Chicago's old Kate Buckingham who gave Grant Park its fountain. Kate Buckingham gave Joe Benton a big champagne party after his debut last week in Tosca. Critics praised a new tenor who had a high clear voice and could...
Critics looked with special interest at the work of the three Pinto brothers-Angelo, Biagio, Salvatore-because they are protégés of Philadelphia's Dr. Albert C. Barnes and are included with his Cezannes, Matisses and Picassos in his big private museum.* Angelo was showing a blue-trousered dart thrower leaning against an amusement park counter tended by a pretty girl in red uniform ($300). Biagio, youngest of the three brothers, had a red-nosed clown with guitar ($650). Salvatore's picture of sprawling bathers at a public beach was priced...
...Boom-Der-E" (1891) was one of the first strikes. Theodore Metz got the mood for "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" (1896). With ragtime the Negro composers came north, the men who founded present-day Harlem. Negro Rosamond Johnson was one of Marks's protégés. He wrote "My Castle on the River Nile" (1901), "Under the Bamboo Tree" (1902), a melodic inversion of "Nobody Knows de Trouble...
After Birmingham. Since he got out of Harvard Law School where he was a protégé of Professor Felix Frankfurter, a smooth-browed young man named David Eli Lilienthal has spent most of ten years defending the public in Illinois and Wisconsin from the ogre of privately-owned utilities. The consuming public had been consistently appreciative of Mr. Lilienthal's efforts in its behalf until last month in Birmingham...
...recognize people or places, his friends had the idea of taking him once more to see the Diaghilev Ballet which he had helped to make the world's greatest dancing corps. Only once during the performance did Nijinsky appear to see through the fog. Serge Lifar, a young protégé of Diaghilev, started to dance Le Spectre de la Rose in which Nijinsky did his never-to-be-forgotten leap through an open window. When the music started Nijinsky's dead, dumb eyes suddenly brightened. He turned to his wife and said, "Can he jump?"* Partly...