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Like a student cramming for an examination, Scientist Albert Einstein shut himself up in a room of Adolph Lewisohn's New York home one afternoon last week and practiced three hours on his violin. That evening Fiddler Einstein was to play in a concert for the benefit of his scientist friends in Berlin. Old Mr. Lewisohn made his servants tiptoe through the halls, kept mousey quiet himself, not once attempting to entertain his ever-so-important guest with the German folk-songs he dearly loves to sing...
...Broadway shows and in the famed "Two Black Crows." Died. Paul Kochanski, 46, violinist; of abdominal disorders; in Manhattan. Born in Warsaw, he made a début at 11, another in London at 19, joined the Warsaw Conservatory faculty at 21, succeeded Leopold Auer as head Professor of Violin at Petrograd Conservatory seven years later. In the U. S. he became head Professor of Violin at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, dedicated his Caprice to Charles Lindbergh...
...players, who had forged through the three weeks' tournament to top a list of ten were Erwin Rudolph of Cleveland and Felix Delasandro (Andrew Ponzi) of Philadelphia. Rudolph is medium-sized round-faced, stolid. He developed his cue skill between working in a steel mill and playing a violin in a cinema house, held the world's championship title in 1927 and 1930. Ponzi is an Italian whose greying black hair belies his 30 years. High-strung' always ready to take chances on the table, Ponzi is popular as a spectacular player. Eastern "wise money...
Because, in the loneliness of Power, Il Duce admits no other mortal to close friendship he spends most of his evenings alone, finds distraction, when not working, in his violin and in censoring cinemas. Came news last week that the Dictator had shushed the U. S. feature length film Mussolini Speaks, banned it from ever being shown in Italy. Patched together from newsreel shots, it parades for over an hour the electrifying facial mannerisms of Orator Mussolini (see cut) (TIME, March 20). The Dictator's crisp reason for shushing Mussolini Speaks: "Not timely enough"- all of the patched-together...
...Gaston Elcus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will give a concort of violin music at Eliot House this evening at 7.45 o'clock. The concert will be preceded by a House dinner at 6.45 o'clock. Members of the House may invite guests to the performance, but owing to limited space in the dining room, it will be impossible to have guests at the dinner...