Word: violins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Benjamin Anzelevitz, 52, "Ben Bernie, the O-O-Old Maestro," genial, plush-voiced veteran of stage, radio, screen; of a lung infection with heart complications ; in Beverly Hills. An East Side New York blacksmith's son, at 15 he gave a violin recital in Carnegie Hall, took up engineering after hearing Mischa Elman's debut.* In a Brauhaus he played his way through college, finally landed in vaudeville as "Ben, The Eccentric Violinist." In the early '20s he formed one of the country's leading dance bands (for a while his pianist was Oscar Levant...
Realizing the complications that must obviously arise from six repeats in the Second Movement of the Mozart Symphony, Chauncey Rushton Skaekle, the 3rd, pointed out the sluggishness particularly evident in the second violin section, that bogged down the light mood of the 35th Symphony...
Nero Hour. Over Rome, Captain Harry R. Burrell's waist-gunner saw fires, snatched up a violin and fiddled...
Sunrise Strings. In Denver, Professor Wayne C. Hedges came out against the Army's classic reveille, declared: "Psychologically, the bugle is all wrong," recommended something in waltz time, on the violin...
There he went to study the language, managed to get himself beaten up and bounced out of a beer hall for uncomplimentary references to Adolf Hitler: "They got me all wrong in that pub." He also met and married 18-year-old Clara Ungerland, blonde, violin-playing daughter of a Cologne basket weaver. She died a month later. O'Nolan returned to Eire, and never mentions...