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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great pianists have been well launched on their careers at 20. At that age Paderewski started his real study, learned what discouragement was. At 24 he met Modjeska, gave the Cracow concert and went to Vienna to learn from the great Leschetitsky who hesitated to accept him for a pupil because he was "rather beyond the age." At 26 Paderewski made his Viennese debut, to be followed by the conquest of Paris and Baroness Helena who made it her business to care for the invalid son Alfred until his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Modern Immortal | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

...fooled by the independent location of the Board of Education's dingy old headquarters on Park Avenue at 59th Street some three miles north of City Hall. Brought to New York at the age of four, Harold George Campbell climbed the public school ladder rung by rung: pupil, grade-school teacher, high-school teacher, principal, associate superintendent. He has long been a close personal friend and ally of the Board of Education's Democratic President George Joseph Ryan. Democratic Superintendent O'Shea has often been pleased to call him "my right arm." Accepting the general estimate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Campbell for O'Shea | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...dresses six at a time, all the same model. She thought nothing of spending $25,000 for roses to bower her ballroom. Suffering from a nervous disorder in 1912, she met Psychiatrist Carl Jung in Manhattan, followed him with her family to Zurich where she lived as his pupil and assistant for eight years. Returning to Chicago in 1921, she picked up a pudgy little Swiss architect, Edwin D. Krenn, brought him home as her social escort. Efforts to make a commercial success of the Krenn real estate firm in Chicago cost her most of her fortune. She died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: First & Last | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...this was fortunate for motormen not only from the standpoint of profits but of privileges. The motor industry has become the prize pupil in Franklin D. Roosevelt's school of Recovery. The growth of automobile business helps to relieve unemployment, helps to keep the steel mills busy, helps to use up the surplus of gasoline, helps to make profits for manufacturers of tires and many another accessory. For all these things the Administration is thankful. Some of its gratitude was publicly acknowledged last month when the automobile code came up for renewal. Motormen were determined to continue the merit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cock of 1933 | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

...days older, one of the six ballerinas who travel with their parents. It was her slipper that Lawyer Cravath drank from at the champagne supper. Tatiana Riabouchinska, who looks something like Greta Garbo, is the daughter of the late Tsar's banker, and was a pupil of Kshesinskaya, the Tsar's mistress before he married. Tatiana is the Company's greatest problem as well as one of its best dancers. In London where they just finished a 20-week run, she had so many admirers that Colonel de Basil bundled her into a taxi, drove to Lloyd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Ballet Russe | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

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