Word: violine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lener String Quartet comes from Budapest. Its members are Jeno Lener, first violin, Joseph...
...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...
...Harris put him on contract. He made hits in such plays as We Americans and Four Walls. He was pleased with Seven Faces because it gave him a chance to exercise his hobby?facial makeup. He likes fights, football games, concerts, is bored by tennis, can play the violin. His two brothers are professional musicians. He dislikes applause and has his hair cut short so as not to look like an actor. Recently he made another talking picture?The Valiant...
...Senator from Mississippi, entered the chamber in an absent-minded mood. He fondled a large cloth monkey with a red tail. He wiggled a cuckoo clock so roughly that it crashed to the floor in ruins. Last week the Senate Chamber held another similar exhibition, including toy soldiers, a violin, an umbrella, a bird cage, salad bowls. Asked Senator Barkley of Kentucky: "By what authority have Kresge and Woolworth moved into this chamber?" Warrior Norris picked up a cornet, blew on it a long mocking blast. On the desk of Brigadier Brookhart, tattler on "Wall Street booze parties" was playfully...
...concert in Paine Hall tonight at 8.15 o'clock, through the courtesy of Mrs. Edward C. Moore. This organization, which was formed by Alfred Pochon, a member of the Flonzaley Quartet which recently disbanded, includes in addition to Mr. Pochon as second violinist, Nicolas Moldavan, viola, Wolfe Wolfinsohn, first violin, and Gerald Warburg, violoncello...