Word: violiniste
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...would a violinist whirring through Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of a Bumblebee react if a red light suddenly flashed on his music stand? If white and blue lights played before him constantly, sometimes at slow speed, sometimes hectically fast? The violinist, claims round, bushy-haired Vladimir Karapetoff, professor of electrical engineering at Cornell University, would perform better than he does now when all he has to guide him are "the wavy motions of two arms and a recurring expression of rage on a conductor's face." To prove his point Professor Karapetoff has invented a switchboard system...
...Bureau of Missing Persons substance and makes it interesting journalism as well as adequate fiction are convincing shots of how a Missing Persons Bureau works. Captain Webb (Lewis Stone), Butch Saunders' superior, is a skillful and intelligent policeman. The picture shows him giving good advice to a child violinist, a man with an overenthusiastic wife, a fussy old bachelor who has lost his housekeeper, an old lady whose daughter has run away. If disappointed because no Judge Crater came for the $10,000 last week, First National nonetheless had reason to be satisfied with its advertising trick. Captain Ayers...
Died. Anton Witek, 63, Bohemian-born violinist, concertmaster of the Berlin (1894-1904), Boston (1908-1918), Frankfort (since 1918) Symphony Orchestras; suddenly; in Winchester, Mass...
...clock--Concert. Sonata for Pianoforte and Violin. Frank W. Ramseyer, Jr., and Josephine Baldwin Bates, violinist, in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building...
...orchestra pit, where his father played a viola. The father was a Belgian. The son, Leon Barzin, had been brought up in New Orleans but the rest of his youth was to be spent in Manhattan where, by the age of 20, he had achieved a second violinist's chair in the Philharmonic. In 1925 he became first violinist...