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The audience grew dreamy over Sasha's singing, sensuous delivery of the Franck sonata. More cold-blooded listeners felt that here Culbertson lacked clarity, tended to lose himself in lyric effects. As always he did best with Bach, made every variation in the Chaconne marvelously clear and incisive. Sensing...
Father Culbertson struck it rich. He was able to move into a big feudal castle near Grozny. Ely was born in, 1893, Alexander five years later. At 4, Sasha began to study violin. Ely used to practice too, but gave up when people made fun of him for keeping his...
During the War, Sasha volunteered as an entertainer for the U. S. Army. Doughboys hissed when young Culbertson, listed as a violinist from Oil City, Pa., came on with his long hair and his faulty English. Ely wanted to be an interpreter. This Son of the American Revolution passed examinations...
At Montclair, N. J. 300 Yalemen made merry at the first "Nick Roberts' Old Yale Barn Party" staged since 1933 after the custom inaugurated by Yaleman Nicholas Roberts, onetime head of defunct S. W. Straus & Co., Manhattan bondhouse. The Yalemen cheered peptalks by Football Coach Raymond ("Ducky") Pond, Captain...
To many an observer, the success of last week's Ball signalized the renascence enjoyed by the Beaux-Arts Institute since Ely Jacques Kahn became chairman of its Board of Trustees three years ago. The first architectural school in the U. S., founded in 1894 by a group of...