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...friend of the late Edward MacDowell and a pupil of the late Henry Hadley, Barrymore took up the piano at the age of 17. In his Hollywood home he has one of the most magnificent record collections in the movie colony. His favorite composers are Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Wagner, Debussy, Ravel and Anton Bruckner. He is a not-too-expert performer on the oboe. About In Memoriam last week he was characteristically unassuming: "If the great masters were listening . . . I'm sure they'd be gentlemen enough to consider the intent of my music rather than the execution...
...coal scuttle near the stove, the lignite coal began to stir. Soon lumps of coal popped spontaneously from the bucket and flew about the room. They hit the walls and Pupil Jack Steiner's head. The bucket capsized. The window shades began to smolder. A dictionary, touched by no human hand, started moving. The book case suddenly burst into flame...
Have Another. In Port Washington, N.Y., a first-grade teacher, despairing of teaching her youngest pupil to read numbers, enlisted the aid of the boy's father. The father wrote "3" on the blackboard. "Three," said the son. The father wrote "5." "Five," said the son. The father wrote "8.""Pretzel," said...
Julius Reubke: Sonata for Organ in C Minor (E. Power Biggs; Victor; 6 sides). Composer Reubke, a star pupil of Franz Liszt, died at 24. His Sonata turns out to be a pleasing, romantic work. Performance good, recording good...
...Simone Martini, or Memmi, was reputedly a pupil of Giotto. He is best known for his Annunciation triptych in the Uffizi Gallery at Florence...