Word: two
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Two famed European string quartets recently made U. S. debuts...
...Smilovits, second violin, Sandor Roth, viola, Imre Hartman, 'cello. They played in the Budapest Royal Opera until the outbreak of the 1919 Revolution when they retired to a distant Hungarian village, devoted themselves for two years to the cult of chamber music. Now the Lener is one of the world's first string organizations. In Manhattan last fortnight its tender, lush playing of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven won noisy approval from the audience, superlatives from critics; made recent performances by the London String Quartet seem over-fastidious, bloodless by comparison. The Roth Quartet, however, also from Budapest, remains for most...
...Boston Zoo. A nameless, snarling Montana coyote, exhibited by its owner, Fred Smidlap of Lakewood, N. J., was said to be "an unusually interesting pet." In a corner of his own slept a skunk. Because New York State law prohibits the exhibition of cats for more than two successive days, last event of the spectacle was a cat show. From far and near came black, red, cream, chinchilla, silver, smoke and brown toms and tabbies. Judges pulled fur, pried open eyes, thumped sides, tabulated their conclusions. Best cat in the show: Lavender Choice of Runnymede. blue male. Best of opposite...
...Saturday Night Kid (Paramount). As Stage Producer Jed Harris' first play, when it was called Love 'Em and Leave 'Em, this was a gentle story about some young people who worked in a department store?two sisters and the youth they were competing for. It has been made into a satisfactory program picture that was advertised at some houses last week without a title in the firesign, being indicated simply as "Clara Bow's Latest." The Saturday Night Kid is a better product than such emphasis on its star's drawing-power seems to imply. Although the plot is composed...
...Other living Emerson descendants: One son. Edward Waldo Emerson of Concord, Mass., biographer and physician. Two grandsons: Edward Waldo Forbes, director of Harvard's Fogg Museum: Dr. Alexander Forbes, member of the faculty of Harvard Medical School...