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Died. William Marion Cook, 75, famed pioneer Negro ragtime composer; after long illness; in Harlem. Born in Washington, Cook studied at 15 under the late great violinist Joseph Joachim in Berlin, played in the Berlin Symphony, returned to the U.S. and the music of his people, wrote scores for the late great minstrels Bert Williams and George Walker. In recent years he turned to choral composition, last year in Haiti collaborated with his son on an opera, St. Louis 'Ooman...
...Fritz Kreisler, audibly restless as she listened to a speech in praise of General Charles de Gaulle, was herself suddenly interrupted by Playwright Henri Bernstein, who leaned forward from the platform and said to the violinist's red-haired wife: "Mrs. Kreisler, would you please be kind enough to keep your mouth shut...
Upton Sinclair, 65, vegetarian, moralist, Socialist, muckraker, politician, agnostic, Californian, abstainer, feminist, movie producer, violinist, physical culturist, antiFascist, antiCommunist; friend of Jack London, Theodore Roosevelt and Albert Einstein; one of the most prolific U.S. authors (67 books, 500 pamphlets); prohibitionist son of a bibulous father and twice-married critic of American marital habits, last week gave book-length vent to his latest enthusiasm: Franklin Roosevelt...
...from Gangdom. Hungarian-born Eugene Ormandy is the only important U.S. conductor who ever climbed from the pit of a Broadway movie house. The climb began in 1920 when Ormandy, then a moderately gifted European concert violinist, arrived in Manhattan with a contract for a $30,000 concert tour, found that both the $30,000 and the impresario had vanished. Ormandy was down to his last nickel when he landed a job with the late Samuel L. (Roxy) Rothafel, who set him to fiddling in the last row of the second violin section at Broadway's Capitol Theater. Ormandy...
...married to a musician (Violinist Julius Schachter), she has abandoned the piano, turned thumbs down on the movies ("There's more money in radio, and anyway, I'm waiting for television"). She gets along so well with Sinatra that when his crowding fans tore her dress recently, Sinatra called for a needle & thread, knelt down and sewed it up. "Did a very neat job, too," says Joan...