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...went back afterwards looking for the prima donna, found her in her stocking feet, just not able to get back into her tight new shoes. Thus Mrs. Long found a new pupil; and the career was launched...
...Auer, teacher of such famed violinists as Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist. For the second time† in the ten years he has been in the U. S., Professor Auer was appearing in public-not in his own behalf but to lend importance to the debut of another pupil, Benno Rabinof. Eight years ago he had taken him, a prodigy of Manhattan's lower East Side, taught him the technic taught, of the he violin. As he had been taught, so he played at his debut-the Elgar Concerto & Tschaikovsky's in D with 60 men from...
...word on "dolts-in-the-mountains." Your paragraph (TIME, Sept. 5) was excellent. (Mr. Miller [TIME, Oct. 10] to the contrary.) I am a mountaineer, also a life pupil in Luther Burbank's "University of Nature"; know the Grand Canyon, too. Have had opportunity to observe thousands of people as They drank in, individually, some of Nature's great spectacles...
...other boys? Or do you want me to make your mother come to school?" The boy shook his head against boxing. "See, that proves that he is yellow. He wants to hide behind his mother's skirts!" exclaimed the principal rhetorically, seeking to excite manliness in the pupil. Ralph, shamed, said that he would fight. He and another school boy put on great, softly-padded boxing gloves; Principal Rainey stood by with a stopwatch to mark two-minute rounds; teachers acted as referee and umpire; other students watched. The boxing match began. Ralph's opponent whacked...
...Children. Dr. Alfred Adler, friend and old pupil of Dr. Sigmund Freud,* wrote from Vienna that the spoiled child, the unwanted or illegitimate child and the child of imperfect physique are in danger of developing a feeling of inferiority to the rest of the world. They fail "to develop a social feeling. Social feeling is what enables human beings to survive in this world†. . . . We can now understand why all actions on the useless side of life among problem children, neurotics, criminals, suicides, perverts and prostitutes are caused by a lack in social feeling, courage and self-confidence...