Word: violine
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...chunky little old Maraella Sembrich came on as the Empress' mother. Grand Duchess Marie was magnificently regal as the Tsarina of Russia. Conductor Walter Damrosch, who likes to dress up, was impressively pontifical as the Abbe Franz Liszt. Jascha Heifetz was Johann Strauss, conducting the orchestra with his violin bow and fid- dling as the spirit moved him. Piano-Maker Theodore Steinway tried to impersonate bigheaded Richard Wagner. Violinist Albert Spalding caused a momentary stir when he came before the court and said: "I, Paganini, am not dead." He played none too well, and when Soprano Frieda Hempel...
...Chicago Bricklayers two years ago. The New York Americans are a very different sort of organization. They are largely owned & operated by Erno Schwarcz, Manhattan broker, who coaches the team, captains it, plays outside right forward. Mr. Schwarcz, who used to conduct an orchestra in Vienna, plays a violin with his left hand, was born in Hungary, later naturalized in Austria. He was an internationalist on Hungarian then on Austrian soccer teams. In 1926, he toured the U. S. with the Hakoah team of Austria, became convinced that all soccer needed, to become a major U. S. game...
...Critic George Jean Nathan, Photographer Arnold Genthe, dozens of others. Starting with an idea and an empty room six weeks ago the Academy now boasts nearly 50 pupils, most of them bartering their services as typists, scrubwomen, carpenters or models for lessons in painting, drawing, sculpture, toe dancing, tango, violin, piano, singing...
...girl to do office work in exchange for art lessons, and from the first 300 applicants picked ten of the likeliest. The art pupils served as models for others to paint, played the piano for others to dance, scrubbed the floors for singing lessons, typed letters for violin lessons. Because of a Polish cook's desire to make a dancer of her daughter, the faculty has been fed. There have been enough cash pupils to pay the rent. Since then they have been busy as a brewery. When reporters called last week a perspiring carpenter was revolving slowly before...
This winter Spalding & Gabrilowitsch have twice chosen to combine their talents, to play sonatas for the piano and violin which most musicians either neglect or use to exhibit their individual virtuosity. Last week Manhattan's Town Hall filled quickly and completely to hear the team play Brahms's A Major Sonata, Mozart's B Flat Sonata, and Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata (socalled because Beethoven dedicated it to Rodolphe Kreutzer, a French violinist who never took the trouble to play it). Throughout the program the two submerged their personalities to make music that was perfectly balanced, completely...