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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German as "a violinist of the first rank" regretted that "the edition played was not the original." Father Moshe Menuhin was less complacent: "It was Yehudi who discovered it. ... Kulenkampff gave a distorted, garbled version by another composer. ..." Yehudi plans to play the original version next month in St. Louis...
Thirty-five years ago, in uptown Manhattan, devout Russians built, with money donated by the late Tsar Nicholas II, a brick & sandstone Cathedral of St. Nicholas, archiepiscopal seat of the Russian Orthodox Church on the North American continent. Recently, many a passerby in the street gazed upward at the Cathedral's steeply-pitched roof. There, perched on a ladder, a stocky young man wielded tar buckets, rolls of tar paper. He was Very Rev. Michael Maslov, dean of the Cathedral. For months, rain had been leaking through the roof, damaging the murals and icons within. Prelates of the Cathedral...
Last Sunday, rain pelted Manhattan but in St. Nicholas Cathedral, for the first time in months, Russians stood snug and dry as Most Rev. Nicholas Kedroff, their Archbishop, officiated at a service celebrating the Cathedral's 35th birthday.* Pungent incense swirled, Russian prelates' vestments gleamed in the candlelight during the long service in which Archbishop Kedroff, whose 35th birthday it was also, preached to his flock in Russian and English...
...sketches of Isadora Duncan by Abraham Walkowitz; photographs by top-flight Austrian, Swedish, French and U. S. photographers. The handsomely printed program announced for Dec. 12 an "Evening of Ballet" to include the three foremost U. S. companies, for Jan. 2 an "Evening of Modern Dance" contributed by Ruth St. Denis, Martha Graham, Hanya Holm, Doris Humphrey, Tamiris and Charles Weidman...
...silk weavers guild. A present day Antinori is chic Princess Caetani (née Cora Antinori), who is also a granddaughter of Egisto P. Fabbri, partner of the first J. P. Morgan. It was not inappropriate, therefore, last week when Princess Caetani appeared at Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel with Mrs. Harrison ("World's Best Dressed Woman") Williams in tow, to display unique yarns and fabrics developed in Italy by the great firm of Snia Viscosa and soon to be offered...