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...rector, descendant of Capt. Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812. He attended Germantown Academy, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Episcopal Theological School (Cambridge, Mass.). He occupied several parishes in Massachusetts and Connecticut, married (1908) Edith Dean Weir, violin-playing and painting daughter of onetime Dean John Ferguson Weir of the School of Fine Arts, Yale University. He is president of the trustees of St. George's School, Newport, R. I. At his summer home in Princeton, Mass, he plays tennis, tends a garden, fells trees. Firm-jawed, genial, sparse of hair...
Alia Nazimova, 50, was born of well-to-do, cultivated parents in Yalta, the Crimea. She had schooling at Zurich, studied the violin at Odessa, spent four years in a Moscow dramatic school. Aged 26, she made her U. S. debut after a European tour with Paul Orleneff's Russian company. A year later the Brothers Shubert contracted with her to play in English; she learned the language in six months, appeared in Manhattan in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. So successful was she that the Shuberts built her the Nazimova Theatre (now the 39th Street Theatre). With Lionel...
There were a million flowers on display, and not a bug or a worm or a weed. Those who went early enough saw a Miss Doris Humphreys perform an interpretive dance (to violin accompaniment) on $1,000 worth of turf, heard a Miss Frances Johnson recite an Ode to Spring, applauded while Mr. Mei Lan-fang. China's greatest actor (TIME, Feb. 24). accepted a tulip bulb named in his honor...
Enesco, whose compositions are known throughout Europe, graduated from the Paris Conservatory with highest honors in violin playing. He has appeared in Boston as a soloist and as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...clock tonight in Paine Hall in the Music Building Georges Enesco will give a violin recital under the auspices of the Division of Music and of the Fine Arts. The celebrated Rumanian musician, who will be accompanied by Sanford Schlussel, will give four informal talks, on April 15, 22, 29, and May 6, in which he will tell of his experiences in the field of music and his reminiscences of associations with such well-known masters as Massenel, Farre, Gedalge, and Debussy...