Word: violining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be incorrect. Garret Wellesley, Earl of Mornington and father of the first Wellington, had tastes which were singular indeed in the begetter of an Iron Duke. It is known to relatively few Americans, save such insatiable antiquaries as myself, that the Earl of Mornington was addicted to playing violin sonatas while seated in an armchair upholstered with orchid-colored velvet, composed numerous four-voiced glees, two of which were named respectively "Gently Hear Me, Charming Maiden" and "Come, Fairest Nymph...
...this year was far beyond the scope of his imagination. Music. Father Brahms hoped, would earn his son a living. He was set to playing the piano almost as soon as he could toddle. Before he reached his teens he could tootle on a horn, play passably on the violin and 'cello. But to his father's despair he would go on scribbling music when he should have been practicing his scales and learning the dance tunes which would earn him a thaler or two and all the supper he could...
...chunky little old Maraella Sembrich came on as the Empress' mother. Grand Duchess Marie was magnificently regal as the Tsarina of Russia. Conductor Walter Damrosch, who likes to dress up, was impressively pontifical as the Abbe Franz Liszt. Jascha Heifetz was Johann Strauss, conducting the orchestra with his violin bow and fid- dling as the spirit moved him. Piano-Maker Theodore Steinway tried to impersonate bigheaded Richard Wagner. Violinist Albert Spalding caused a momentary stir when he came before the court and said: "I, Paganini, am not dead." He played none too well, and when Soprano Frieda Hempel...
...Chicago Bricklayers two years ago. The New York Americans are a very different sort of organization. They are largely owned & operated by Erno Schwarcz, Manhattan broker, who coaches the team, captains it, plays outside right forward. Mr. Schwarcz, who used to conduct an orchestra in Vienna, plays a violin with his left hand, was born in Hungary, later naturalized in Austria. He was an internationalist on Hungarian then on Austrian soccer teams. In 1926, he toured the U. S. with the Hakoah team of Austria, became convinced that all soccer needed, to become a major U. S. game...
...girl to do office work in exchange for art lessons, and from the first 300 applicants picked ten of the likeliest. The art pupils served as models for others to paint, played the piano for others to dance, scrubbed the floors for singing lessons, typed letters for violin lessons. Because of a Polish cook's desire to make a dancer of her daughter, the faculty has been fed. There have been enough cash pupils to pay the rent. Since then they have been busy as a brewery. When reporters called last week a perspiring carpenter was revolving slowly before...