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...With his $25,000 Guarnerius violin tucked cosily beneath his arm, Violinist Harry Braun, 22, walked down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue one night last week. Protege of Banker Otto Hermann Kahn and of Lieut. Governor Herbert H. Lehman of New York, pupil of the late great Leopold Auer, he was given his violin by Philanthropist August Heckscher. He was to play on it at his Carnegie Hall debut in January. As Violinist Braun crossed Fifth Avenue a truck came lumbering along. He dodged. The violin case slithered from under his arm, landed squarely in the truck's path...
Previously she had studied violin in Milan, secured a small job at La Scala. In 1915 she became associated with Maestro Arturo Toscanini. helped him organize an opera season in Milan. Five years later she became his secretary. Tactful, efficient, she was useful in coping with his famed tantrums, in keeping people out of his way when necessary. But many were not yet ready to take her seriously. It is told how the conductor Antonio Guarnieri once met her on his way to the Maestro's office. Said she: "I am Signorina Colombo. What can I do for you?" Said...
Aging Alfred now spends most of his time in Florida. He became a newsworthy figure again last year when he started a pension fund for Delaware's deserving aged. He is an able engineer, has invented many a powder machine. He is an able musician, likes a violin. Once he organized and conducted a band at the powder-works, composed stirring marches. The Marine Band recently tried to get copies of them but found he has given up music, destroyed his manuscripts. His hobby now is his yacht Alicia (named for his second wife), designed...
...Some husbands who themselves compose or play: Manhattan's Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker ("Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May?"); Board Chairman Charles Michael Schwab of Bethlehem Steel Corp. (violin, organ) ; Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes ("Melody in A Major"); President William Hartman Woodin of American Car & Foundry ("Raggedy Ann's Sunny Songs"); Professor Albert Einstein (violin). Banker James Paul Warburg (pseudonym, Paul James) writes lyrics to the jazz tunes of his wife, Kay Swift, whose "Fine & Dandy" was a Broadway smash hit last autumn...
...that Sir Chandrasekhara says he has proved it true. Although he learned all his science in India and has done all his scientific work there, Occidental scientists know his results well. Light has not been his sole research. He has worked out a mechanical theory of bowed strings and violin tone, and a theory of musical instruments. Seven years ago he made a brief visit to California Institute of Technology at Pasadena, rendezvous of Nobel Prize winners. Word from his Chair of Physics at Calcutta University is scientific dogma. Last autumn he received a Nobel Prize (TIME...