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...Auer, 81, unrivaled violin teacher: "Like my friend, Pianist Hofmann, I have just become a U. S. citizen. By birth Hungarian, I became in 1883 a Russian subject, in 1895 hereditary Russian nobleman, and in 1903 Russian State Councilor. As soloist to the Tsar, I succeeded the great composer-violinist Wieniaw-ski, but my chief pride is that my pupils have included Elman, Zimbalist, Heifetz. I have lived in the U. S. since 1918, following the Russian Revolution...
Josef Hofmann, one of "the three pianists":* "Like my friend, Violinist Auer, I have just become a U. S. citizen. I have made my home in the U. S. since my marriage, in 1905, to the daughter of James B. Eustis, of New Orleans, Ambassador to France under Grover Cleveland. Mrs. Edward Bok, daughter of Publisher-Patron-Organist Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, and her son, Curtis, were my sponsors for citizenship papers. I am living at the Bok residence at Merion, Pa., while my wife and daughter Josefa are abroad. This is convenient for my directorial duties at Curtis Institute...
...grants that a violinist is more than a fiddler, that an artist ranks above a painter of pictures, that a poet is superior to a rhymer, but these distinctions are based on certain gradations of value. Would the Association classify Sliding Billy Watson as a hobo of a bum and would Bozo Snyder qualify as either? The fine fraternity of the open road and box car is threatened with the caste system when one wandering gentleman calls himself by a sweeter sound than another. Neo-classicism is raising its head bums must beware the genre as well as critics...
...Wells was portrayed in the new Wellsian Bible by William Clissold, will be the subject of an address by John Havnes Holmes at the Community Church, Symphony Hall, tomorrow nothing at 10.45 o'clock. A musical program opening at 10.30 o'clock, will be given by J. H. Symonds, violinist, Gladys Berry, cellist, Mrs. Roland M. Baker, pianist, and Margaret Gorham Glaser, organist...
...would the name of Blaine awaken potent memories. Yet, instead of recalling to their readers the late and great, many an editor slapped down amid his scareheads a (faked) picture of Mrs. Brewster in her chemise. The facts are that old Roscoe Conkling had no issue. Gas Engineer-Violinist Conkling is the son of B. F. ("Dry Feet") Conkling, the engineer who abandoned the sinking General Slocum "without getting his feet wet," when she sank with 1000 casualties in the East River, Manhattan (1904). He is likewise onetime husband of Grace Hazard Conkling, poetess-in-waiting to the Manhattan column...