HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-03-15, Page 7Fritz Was The Topi
- Now He's Gone
"Nobody can be claimed es the
first violinistin the world,"`Fritz
Kreisler said a dozen years ttgo,
"There isn't any one most beau-
tiful woman In the world either,
and there isn't one pair of the
most beautiful legs in the
world," he added with obvious
relish.
Although he was 75 at the
time, and was never again to
play his violin in public, there
w a s little doubt in anybody's
mind that Kreisler had, as al-
ways, been too modest. There
was a first violinist in the world,
and for et least half a century
it had been .Fritz Kreisler On
occasion, Others •might have
played with more dizzying dex-
terity or blinding speed, but no
one had a warmer, sweeter tone,
a nobler sense of purpose, or a
finer feeling for the instrument
itself. As his friend Bruno Wal-
ter .observed: "lie did not May
the violin, he became the violin."
Kreisler was the one violinist
About whom his rival virtuosos
could agree. Although his aristo-
cratic elegance was typical of his
native Vienne, he favoured no
school of playing over any other,
ii is influence was universally
felt, even in Russia, whose con-
servatories have turned out such
fiddling giants as Jascha Heitetz,
Nathan Milstein, and David
Oistrakh.
To this day, the magic of
Kreisler's style has not dimmed
for the Soviets. When it was an-
nounced in NevtYork last
month that the violinist had died
of a heart attack just four days
before his 87th birthday, Rus -
pian violinist Igor Oistrakh, the
30 -year-old son of David Ois-
trakh, said with great feeling:
"As far as I'm concerned, he's
the ideal of a musician." Young
Oistrakh, who has just launched
his first American tour, said his
father, too, revered Kreisler, "lie
knew .him personally. My father
teaches at th e Conservatory of
Music in Moscow, and last year '
gave an evening devoted to
Kreisler, discussing his records."
Kreisler, who was as loved by
the multitude as by the music-
ally informed, deplored the fact
that young musipians were
"afraid of sentiment" Because of
his unblushing sympathy for
schmaltz, there were many mu-
sicians who felt that Kreisler,
the composer of such Viennese
bonbons as "T h e Old Refrain"
and "Caprice Viennois," suffered
from an overabundance of emo-
tion.
As a composer, however,
Kreisler could work up pieces in
the most approved classical
style, as he did early in his ca-
reer when he perpetrated the
now -famous Kr e i s l e r "hoax."
For years he had programed
"arrangements" of suoh old mas-
ters as Couperin, Vivaldi, and
hagarini, In 1935, he confessed
he had written them all himself.
"I was desirous of enlarging my
programs," he said. "I found it
impudent and tactless to repeat
my name endlessly on the pro-
grams."
A wonder-ohild who made his
American debut at 13, Kreisler
nonetheless believed that an
artist should be a roundly devel-
oped man. Forswearing the fid-
dle for a time, he studied medi-
cine, became an Austrian Army
officer, and was nearly killed in
action in World War I. Twenty
years ago, he again narrowly es-
caped death after a truck hit him
as he was crossing New York's
Madison Avenue.
Miraculously, he lived to play
again. "I would still play the
violin," he once said, "even if I
were fined and, punished."
•
HEAD FOR THE GAME—Dave
Downey seems to have a head
for basketball in this quick ac-
tion photo.
Dig , Up Relics Of
Alfred The Great !
In Cheddar, the small Somer-
setshire village over whioh the.;
gorges of the Mendip Hills rise
dramatically, where primeval
rock fate flanks modern cottages
and gardens, the excavation of a
remarkable series of buildings:.
throws light on the dark pages
of King Alfred's Saxon England.
Excavations on what is thought
to be King Alfred's palace at
Cheddar are to be resumed in
March. Bad weather in Decem-
ber, 1961, stopped the dig, which
is uncovering a succession of
royalpalaces over a large area
from the time of Alfred, King .of
Wessex from 871 to 899, to that
of King John of Magna Carta
fame, 1199 to 1216.
On rebuilding, each king chose
fresh ground for a new palace,
a few yards from the old one.
One of the most important finds
is reported to be the remains of
a Saxon timber hall, 80 feet by
18 feet, the largest Saxon build-
ing found south of the Northum-
brian Saxon district between the
Tyne River and the Cheviot Hills.
The building. now uncovered
is believed to have been the
great hall of Alfred's palace, the
dining hall where the thegns and
the thralls gathered to hear the
words of the sagas chanted by the
gleemen as the smoke drifted
skywards,
All too few of the words of
these Old English storytellers
have come down to us.
Not till medieval times, when
Chaucer and other ballad mak-
ers wrote of the lives of the peo-
ple, of their joy in wood and
flower and meadow, of the ex-
hilaration of the tourney and the
hunt, can we imagine what it
was like to live in the England
of those days.
It seems sad, therefore, to read
that the diggers are engaged in
a race against time to complete
the dig before handing the site
back to the builders of a modern
school.
Over the great hall of Alfred's
palace, they have found a small
10th -century wooden chapel, and
above this a stone chapel repair-
ed in. the 13Th century.
Theexcavators also have found
the kiln which supplied the mar -
tar fur this repair and the pit
for the casting of a 13th -century
ISSUE 9 — 1962
hell. The mold was made of peat
PM still contained traces of bell
;metal slag,
To the south of the site, more
buildings have been found, One
Is a massive aisled hall, 110 feet
by 60 feet, the largest timber
hall so far known in England
and probably built by Henry 1,
youngest son of William the Con-
queror, Thehall had been re-
built, partly in stone. Some ex-
ports think this may be the work
referred to in the Royal Roll for
1209, when King John spent £50
oil "his houses of Cheddar" and
the timber was brought from
Wales, writes. Melita Knowles in
the Christian Science Monitor.
Two ditches crossing the north
part of the site and thought to
be part of a defensive earthwork
yielded valuable small finds,
They include coins of Ethelwulf,
King .Alfred's father (about 845),
Burgled of Mercia (870), Athel-
sten, Alfred's grandson (930),
and Ethelred II (1100),
Royal occupation 01 the palace
first built by Alfred ended in
the reign of King John about
1213, when it was given to the
Bishop of Wells, The Witenage-
mot (Meeting of the Wisemen or
Parliament) took place at this.
royal stead In 960 and 968,
King Alfred the Great was the
first warrior king in the great
feudal tradition, He and his son
welded England together for the
first time. In the custom of the
chaotic times, when the King
must lead his people in peace as
in war, King Alfred was the
greatpioneer of education, a man
who although a King, himself
taught and governed and fought
with his people.
He was administrator, scholar
warrior, in an epoch when the
Danes must be fought and before
professional men could give
themselves over entirely to learn-
ing.
Alfred the warrior built an
English fleet. He madestandby
soldiers available to fight when
needed. He put permanent garri-
sons into earthwork, Danish -
style forts, Alfred the adminis-
trator set up a council which
worked through the shire and
its offices.
Alfred the scholar began Eng-
lish prose literature by translat-
ing Bede's Latin into Anglo-
Saxon and by translating and
compiling handbooks of history
and geography for his subjects'
use. He initiated the keeping of
the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the
first historical record ever com-
posed in England. Alfred, more-
over, founded the first "public
schools" for teaching letters to
the sons of noblemen and thegns.
He trained the laity for the first
time for tasks of administration.
Trumpet Player
Gets Bum's Rush
It has happened to every out-
door bandmaster who ever post-
ed an off-stage bugler in the
bushes, but the other evening it
happened in London's Albert
Hail. Stationed high up in the
gailery, trumpeter Eiger Howarth
of the Philharmonia Orchestra
raised his horn to sound the
spine -chilling off-stage fanfare
in Beethoven's Leonore Overture
No. 3. At the very first notes,
an usher grabbed Howarth and
administered the bum's rush
while the hapless trumpeter tried
to splutter out his part. Battling
with tongue and limb, Howarth
fought his way back just in time
to blow the overture's second
horn call. "Next time," proclaim-
ed Philharmonia conductor Ken-
neth Jones, when the fracas was
over, "we shall have armed se-
curity guards around our trum-
pet player."
A fellow may not realize what
he has picked up until he car-
ries her acrossthe threshold.
PONDERING HIS ROUTE -- John
launching from Cape Canaveral.
Glenn studies
a "globe within a globe" as he
awaits
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BABY CHICKS
GOOD early markets .demand that you
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Prompt shipment on full range vert.
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MY, promptly; also day-old cockerels.
Ask for price list. See local agent, or
write Bray Hatchery, 120 John North,
Hamilton, Ont.
BUSINESS PROPERTIES FOR SALE
LICENSED nursing home, completely
furnished and equipped, Markham vii•
lege, 11 beds, room for more, new ell
hot ,voter heating plant. Nearly new
roof. Entire building in good repair. 45
acre of land. 1 block from main street,
quiet location. Priced at 629.000, +,5
ensh, balance 1 open 6',4%n mortgage.
For complete details call HU. 9.$806,
0. L. Raymer,exclusive agent, 99 Rose
Park Pr., Toronto,
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES;
BOWLING lanes, 8, completely equip'
ped, excellent condition. automatic foul
lights, complete snack bar. Purchaser
to remove lanes from municipality.
Owned melting to new location Open
for offers. David's Bowl-Q'Drome 31
Dundas E., Trenton, Ont.
CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS FOR SALE
Full line of Construction machinery, -
Bulldozers, • Dragnne shovels, Bridge
building equipment Dam building
equipment and Pile driving equipment,
with some contracts for spring. Phone
Port Burwell. 874-4301 or write. P.0,
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COINS WANTED
COINS WANTED - Pay for Canadian
cents Fine or better, 1922, $4.50; 1923,
$6,75; 1924 5150;- 1925, $5.00. More
places In the 1982 Coin Catalogue 25c.
Gary's 15) 9910 Jasper. Edmonton, Alta,
DAIRY EQUIPMENT FOR SALE
FOR SALE. McCormick power washed
Cream Separator, 750 lbs. capacity, only
used a short time. 2 single units Hin-
man milker with pipe illde for 15. cows.
CLARE HAGLE
Phone Arkona 3549 RR4, Forest, Ont,
FARM HELP WANTED
MARRIED SIAN for poultry and beef
farm. Experience preferred. House with
modernconveniences supplied. Year
employment. Start March lst, John S.
Trott. 11114, 221. Brydges. Phone 301r-
1717.
FARMS FOR SALE
FARM, 100 acres, near Brooksdale,
8,000 sq. ft. bank barn, excellent land
all workable. Donald J. Innes, Embro,
475-4673.
TOBACCO farm, 109 acres, fully equip.
PO, 39 acres M.B.R. Good .location.
near Vienna, phone Port Burwell 874
4301 or write P.O. Box 30, Vienna.
FARM 100 acres Lot 14, Con. 1.3,
McRinop Township, Huron County,
seven room modern house with new
double garage. 50 x 70 steel barn, never
been used. Drilled well has never been
dry. Good land and good fences.
School on farm. Buyer gets first
chance of 117 acresof grass farm
across the road with 40 acres work-
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back, good fences, gravel pit. Price,
930,000. Apply Fred Glanville. RR 2,
Walton, Ont.
FARM EQUIPMENT FOR SALE
FOR SALE - David Brown 850 Dem-
onstrator, 1957 Ford Tractor with Dear.
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pump and controls, Davis T66 Trench-
er demonstrator, Howard 3PT Roto-
vator demonstrator, Seaman 50" Til-
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Transplanter demonstrators, Post Aug-
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Pumps. Phlibrick Farm Equipment,
Vineland, LOgan 2.4513.
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SUNNY Florida vacation on beautiful
Redington Gulf Beach Fishing, sports,
free TV. heated pool, low rates, free
folders, prices. Efficiency ants , hotel
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With Penn's "Easytrim" haircutting
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W., 16, August Avenue, Searboro. Om
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How Can 1?
By Roberts Lee
Q. How can 1 prevent ice -cube
trays from sticking in tile freez-
ing compartment of my refrig-
erator?
A. You can avoid this sticking
it you'll rub some of or grease
on the bottoms of the trays. Or,
take a piece 01 double -thickness
waxed paper the salve size as
the tray, and keep it under the
tray in the compartment.
Q. Row can I renew the fin-
ish 001 some of my furniture?
A. Equal parts of boiled lin-
seed oil, turpentine, and white
vinegar, applied with a bit of
woolen rag and polished with a
silk cloth, will renew the finish
on furniture and also help to
conceal some of the smaller
blemishes.
Q. How can I take proper care
of a chamois that has been used
for cleaning windows or wash-
ing' the car?
A. Rinse the chamois out at
least three times, shake well,
and hang up to dry Pull ,md
shake it several times while dry-
ing, and this will keep it gift.
The chamois should dry slowly
and never in the sun.
MERRY MENAGERIE
"By gollyi It certalnIs 1s
MONO 111401"
FOR SALE - MISCELLANEOUS
3 LBS. Velveteen or print cotton 51.98.
Remnants Assorted colours. Make Rid;
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caps, overai,s Also 20 yds, quilted silk
remnants $2.98, 4 lbs yard pieces, no
batting necessary. 3 lbs. leathercloth
1bs.s50.911 Elastic Emb5"idwidth, 0 yarns,00,
0
yds. $0 100; pin rinted, 4" yds.751,00. wide,
row ribbon, 300 yds, $1 Cotton bias,
navy brown, black, 300 yards $1 00, lie.
mit 01.00, balance collect. Schaefer,
Drummondville Quebec
Why can we sell for less? We buy in
large quantities for cash, we have a
large 'turnover, selling to every Prov
ince in Canada, we sell for 08011. have
no bad accounts, and we take a small
margin of profit. We list a few of our
savings, Two 54.00 white .dress shirts
for 39.96' Ewe 95.50 Spun Rayon plaid
sport shirts for 97.95; two 95.00 plaid
flannelette shirts for 53.95; two pals
91,25 all wool work socks for 91.70; and
hundreds of other items listed In our
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satisfaction guaranteed or money re-
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HELP WANTED FEMALE
START AT ONCE
We require several single young ladles
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MacLean•Hunter Publishing Company,
Neatness essential. No experience ne-
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monthly to start with rapid advance.
20nne Birch,
oih Floor,
St. W., TToronto
enclose photograph and phone number.
HELP WANTED
MEDICAL.. DICTAPHONE
TYPIST
Required for X-ray department. Must
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X-ray terminology.
Apply to personnel director North York
Branson Hospital
555 Finch Avenue West,
Willowdale, Ontario.
REGISTERED
MEDICAL LABORATORY
TECHNICIAN
NEEDED AT THE
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CONTACT
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Vern Ardiff, 323 No. Soto, Los Angeles
33, California.
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Toronto
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ATTENTION ROCItHOUN.PSI Fifteen
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P.O. Box 5118, London, Ont.
SORRY, NO C.O.D.
PROPERTIES FOR SALE
98000 cash will buy 198 acres facing
Hwy 69 fourteen miles south Parry
Sound, Hunting with trout stream on
property Call or write R. Harris, 110
Dundas ENVY East, Cooksstlle. Phone
No 277.3086.
POULTRY CRATES FOR SALE
HAULING poultry? Do it with Stall
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Manufacturers, Box 53, St Jacobs. On-
tario.
SEED FOR SALE
RUSSELL OATS
ONTARIO'S newest and most outstand-
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bigger grain. Ask your own dealer to
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for you, from us. Alex :M. Stewart Oe
Son Ltd., Seed Grain Specialists, Ailsa
Craig, Ont.
TREES
SCOTCH and Austrian Pine. Colorado
Blue Spruce, White Spruce, Ornamen-
tals and seed, Seven varieties Nut
Seedlings. Keith Somers, TillsonburS
Ontario.
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