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...finest string quartets in the world-the Pro Arte. This quartet still calls Brussels its home, but only in a far, faint voice. Its members: Spanish First Fiddler Antonio Brosa, 44; Belgian Second Fiddler Laurent Halleux, 43; Belgian Violist Germain Prévost, 49; British Cellist Warwick Evans, 56. It took the Pro Arte men four hours to plow from Chicago to Watertown, and once, in a bad skid, M. Prevost's $5,000 viola nearly went through the window. By the time the quartet reached Watertown High School, 700 youngsters, who had stayed after school to hear them...
...Giuseppe Verdi in the 1850s to a play by Scribe which dealt with the assassination of Sweden's King Gustavus III. Because of trouble nearly a century ago with Italian censors, the libretto of Masked Ball was given a U. S. background. Its hero was "Riccardo, Count of Warwick, Governor of Boston" in the 17th Century. He tenoriously fell in love with the soprano wife of his "Creole" secretary. After everyone had consulted a blackface sorceress named Ulrica, the Creole joined a conspiracy headed by two ha-ha-ing bassos, also in blackface, named Samuel...
...Meade Lindsley Fiske III, 29, famed U. S. winter-sportsman, driver of winning Olympic bobsleds (1928, 1932), reputedly the first American to join the R. A. F. as a pilot; of wounds received during aerial combat; somewhere in southeastern England. In 1938 Mr. Fiske married the beauteous Countess of Warwick...
...Willkie, who had fled from the Convention Hall after the fifth ballot, hurried to the Warwick Hotel, where the Willkies and their son Philip had rooms. At 1 :30 a.m., a big, disheveled man, fighting his way through cheering mobs, arrived, embraced...
...Committee announced the award of a major H in Minor Colors to Captain Ace Cordingley and Bob Graves of the golf team, Norman Blotner, Jim Doughty, Ben Ferris, Captain Gordy Halstead, Dick Lewis, Ben Wilcox, and Holland Willard of the lacrosse team, Warwick Stabler of the polo team, and Captain Dave Burt, Langdon Gilkey, Chester Legg, Jack Palfrey, and Jack Stewart of the tennis team, all of whom have played on their respective Varsity teams for three years...