Word: violining
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Einstein especially dreaded his reception in New York. He remembered his visit nine years ago when, to find peace from questioning, he fled to the roof of Manhattan's Commodore Hotel, played his violin alone among the chimneys. "I suffer more than anybody can imagine," he said then...
...into the bicycle business (later he was an executive of Fierce-Arrow Motor Car Co.). Mrs. Garden followed with the girls, lived in Brooklyn for a while, then in Chicopee Falls, Mass., then in Chicago. Mary was the determined, aggressive one of the lot. She learned to play the violin, at twelve played in a concert. Then she studied piano, practiced patiently five hours a day. An amateur performance of Trial by Jury in Chicago perhaps hinted first at her dramatic talents. But she wanted to be a singer. To Paris she went, lived with a French family, studied diligently...
...Annunzio came to the U. S. in 1917 to supervise the manufacture of Caproni bombing planes at Fisher Body plant. He returns to Italy once a year, spends evenings discussing aviation and literature with his father. Italians remember that Son Ugo was a child prodigy, gave violin concerts in many big cities at the age of seven. In addition to selling Isottas, Son Ugo is interested in Savoia-Marchetti flying boats, heading the U. S. Savoia-Marchetti sales company and being vice president of the American Aeronautical Corp. When not working, Salesman D'Annunzio likes to think about Port...
...Concerto in E major for violin and string orchestra, by Bach. Mr. Holmes is to play the solo part...
...provide realistic color for the scenes that take place in India and China a tamboura and a Chinese violin and drums have been procured...