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...JOSE MARIA DE AREILZA...
While the guests sipped & supped at ten round tables, Concert Pianist Jose Iturbi and Barriee Breeskin, one of Washington society's favorite orchestra leaders, took turns at the piano. After the last toast, the President strolled to the piano himself, rendered a competent Paderewski Minuet in G and a work of Chopin whose title escaped him. General George Marshall and Presidential Adviser John Steelman joined the three piano players for a friendly argument about music. "I'm nuts about Chopin," said the President...
Charles IV sent José Jaudenes Nebot, a comisario de los ejércitos, or army quartermaster, to Washington on a diplomatic mission. There he met and married British Aristocrat Mathilde Stoughton Fletcher. They returned to Spain in 1812, and Jose died that year. Mathilde followed 24 years later. To their children they left an enormous U.S. estate. Remittances were sent from the States for 25 years, then stopped. Why, no one quite knew...
...Band earned its epithet early in the program with "The Seafarer," Haydn Wood's arrangement of sea chanties. Tunes such as "Shenandoah" and "Away Rio" were played in a fine, sweeping style in the Band's first performance of the intricate work. A smooth rendition of Jose Padilla's "El Relicario" was the highlight of the second portion of the program...
...Methodist Harvey Spencer Lewis, former president of an "Institute for Psychical Research." Together they applied modern U.S. selling methods to a potpourri of lore derived from the ancient esoteric Rosicrucian cult which dates back beyond the isth Century. In 1928, the Lewis-Kiimalehto brand of Rosicrucianism found in San Jose a happy combination of favorable weather and favorable authorities. There Lewis incorporated it as a nonprofit organization, and settled down to be "Imperator of the Supreme Grand Lodge." Kiimalehto sold his New York printing shop and came along to San Jose in 1936 as "Sovereign Grand Master...