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Greenwich House Music School was founded 35 years ago, in one room with one pupil, one piano. Now headed by a lanky Uruguayan violinist, Enrique ("Hank") Caroselli, it has two remodeled Greenwich Village houses, teaches more than 600 children and adults. Fees for lessons in voice, violin, piano begin at 50?, are shaved or even waived for the needy. Like most settlement schools, Greenwich House is less interested in training professional musicians than in teaching music as an avocation. But it is proud-just as Chicago's Hull House is of Benny Goodman and Manhattan's Music School...
...Great God Brown," written in 1925, was the first of pupil O'Neill's so-called psychological plays. It contrasts the dull but successful businessman with the brilliant, erratic artist. To help develop his characters, the playwright has them wear masks when they say conventional things, and take them off when they reveal their real thoughts...
...eleven years-1923-34-balding, spectacled McDaniel was one of Donnell's star pupils in a Sunday School men's Bible class held in the church basement. Around an old borrowed piano the class sang hymns before & after the weekly lecture, McDaniel's rolling bass harmonizing with Donnell's baritone. Serious, somewhat prissy Bible-Teacher Donnell permitted no antics, and caper-cutting Pupil McDaniel was a good boy in class. When the church trustees needed money, they raised it by holding humorous mock trials in which the legal chums and such pupils as square-jibbed, religious...
...time, cigar-smoking (box-a-day) McArthur studied orchestra scores, practiced waving a stick before a mirror. An ear-splitting singer, he made his wife, his onetime singing pupil Blanche Victoria Pope, his stand-in vocalist in his studies. Flagstad plugged him as a conductor (TIME, Feb. 5, 1940). The San Francisco and Chicago operas hired Conductor McArthur; last year the Met unbent and let him do a Tristan in a post-season visiting performance in Boston. But not until last week did the Met let him play in its own back yard. Critics gave Edwin McArthur top marks...
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