Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleasant Grandmother Wiggin. "It has given me quite a thrill to have really created something."- Hearst's San Francisco Examiner ("Monarch of the Dailies") last week took notice of that city's cultural life by reporting the completion of a fresco by youthful Artist Victor Arnautoff, onetime pupil of Diego Rivera. On the wall of his studio near the edge of the Telegraph Hill art colony Artist Arnautoff, a sociable fellow, had painted the likenesses of 23 of his friends grouped about the seated figure of a nude female model. The Examiner printed with its story a four...
...infested Moscow after the War. Corralled by the police, the wild boys are set to work in a juvenile Commune, superintended by a tactful and vigorous social worker (Nikolai Batalov). From time to time they are obstreperous but gradually they become addicted to honesty and industry. The star pupil of what Batalov calls the "Children's Commune" is a stubby youth named Mustapha (Tzyvan Kyrla), with the figure of a baboon, the face of a gargoyle and the courage of a juvenile Lenin. Smartest of pickpockets when he roved the Moscow streets, Mustapha helps lick his cronies into social shape...
Died. Paul Marie Theodore Vincent d'Indy, 80, French composer (Istar Wallenstein, Fervaal), pupil of the late Cesar Franck, co-founder (1894) and director since 1911 of the Paris Schola Cantorum; in Paris...
...Boston, Pianist Jesus Maria Sanroma opened his Symphony Hall program with a skilfully contrived theme and variations by his pupil, 10-year-old Susan ("Chiqui") Godoy...
...chin, demonstrated a great talent worthy of great music. Busch, like Brahms, scorns meaningless display. In music alternately heroic and deeply tender, he displayed an immaculate, full-toned technique, an interpretative sense marked by the same marvelous simplicity and restraint that he has succeeded in preserving in his pupil, young Yehudi Menuhin. In Manhattan the Busch name is familiar because of Adolf's brother Fritz (they were the sons of a famed Westphalian violin-maker), who conducted the New York Symphony for a time. In Manhattan next week Violinist Busch will be given an enviable debut.* Conductor Arturo Toscanini...