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...piano transcription of the complicated orchestra score. Alec Templeton amazed Critic Edward Barry of the Chicago Tribune by making a perfectly good piano sound as if it were horribly out of tune. At a recent Chicago party, Pianist Templeton was asked if he would accompany Violinist Nathan Milstein in Lalo's Symphonic espagnole. The blind pianist replied he did not know the work but would play it if someone ran through it first. Pianist Templeton then negotiated the longish composition with but one error. Awed, Violinist Milstein declared that the error was an improvement on the original...
...vernal gaiety that Mr. Dwight Wiman has brought to the Shubert Theatre one of the very best musical comedies in many a pasteboard moon. It's called "On Your Toes" and if it falls to hang the S. T. O. talisman outside its New York queue, George Joan Nathan is Pollyanna's brother...
Also on the program is Mendelssohn's Concerto in E minor for Violin in which Nathan Milstein, the young Russian virtuose is to be the soloist. The concert closes with Sibelius's First Symphony Like Beethoven, the great Finnish composer is orienting himself in this work and does not attain quite the characteristic breadth and scope which are so typical of his later symphonies, notably the Fifth...
...years the names of Joseph Silverman and his brother Nathan have been ringing notoriously around Washington in connection with the sale of Army goods. Congressional committees have investigated, and grand juries have probed. Nine months ago Colonel Alexander Elliot Williams, onetime Assistant to the Quartermaster General, was cashiered for accepting a "loan" from a salesman on a large automobile contract (TIME, June 3). Two months ago Colonel Williams and the Silvermans were indicted for conspiracy to defraud the Government in connection with the same contract...
...American Medical Association was so disturbed by the condition of U. S. medical schools and by the laxity of state licensing requirements that it founded a Council on Medical Education & Hospitals, installed the late Dr. Nathan Porter Colwell as secretary. That year Dr. Colwell went to the Carnegie Foundation, asked that a lay survey of the nation's medical schools be made and its findings published. The Carnegie Foundation chose for the job a brilliant young educator named Abraham Flexner, who had ceased teaching in Louisville high schools to earn a Harvard M. A. With Dr. Colwell, Abraham Flexner...