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...viola is in nature an undersized pansy. In art it is an oversized violin with a tubby, whiskey-contralto voice. Except for low-moaning the inner voices of symphonies and string quartets, it is not good for much. Most of the time it merely plays pah to the cello's oom. Most of the people who pull horsehair bows over its goatgut strings are ex-violinists who failed to make the grade...
...phonograph record of Violist Primrose playing a Paganini caprice. Never had they heard or heard tell of such fast & fluent viola playing, at first thought some super-brilliant violinist like Jascha Heifetz had made the record under an assumed name. They telegraphed Primrose, then on tour with the London String Quartet, and offered him the job of Toscanini's chief viola player. He accepted...
Number four doesn't play football For two years he's been a third-string fullback on the soccer team. In the fall he worries with the best of them about getting his weight down, and his wind up to par. Last week the lineup was revamped, and he found himself starting against Brown on Saturday. But his ankle was creamed in the first quarter. His name is John Davidge, and this afternoon he will watch Yale and Harvard play soccer from the bleachers...
...years when he was a super-silent business manager and steadying influence on his late elder brother Lord Northcliffe, most brilliant and potent press tycoon the Empire has ever had. In recent years Lord Rothermere, who controls the London Daily Mail, Evening News and Sunday Dispatch, together with a string of prominent provincial papers, has stopped just short of yellow journalism. He was once reported ready to bet some $1,000,000 that his reporters could encircle the globe faster than U. S. newshawks; in 1934 he gave British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley a brief but dizzy journalistic whirl; possibly...
...Piston Concertino for Piano and Orchestra which the Boston Symphony played last week, for instance, has long passages in a distinctly lyrical mood. Roussel's String Trio, Op. 58, which was played at the Longy School last evening, shows how remarkably his style had softened since the time of his Violin Sonata and the works of his middle life. The same development is apparent in Prokofiev. The change from the acrid dissonance of works like the Scythian Suite to the out-and-out romanticism of the G minor Violin Concerto is one of the most striking examples of what...