Boston

The musical bills for the week hold the name of Albert Spaulding. This violinist is a musician of steady growth. He seems constantly deepening in warmth and musicianship.

Spaulding belongs to the famous Spaulding Sporting Goods fortune. His father was a brother of the late Albert G. Spaulding, the old baseball player who founded the establishment. Albert Spaulding, the violinst, was born to money. Desiring to become a musician, the way to musicianship was gilded for him. He could study where and with whom he pleased. But the family wealth has hurt him in his public career. He complains that people say of him that there is no reason for his playing a fiddle, since he does not need the money. Others hold that he has got to the top not through musicianship, but through his pocketbook. The violinist states with a little emphatic bitterness that he has refused to take any financial aid from his family since the day that he first played in public. He insists that he is simply a musician as any other musician, and that he lives precisely as any other musician does, eating and lodging on the proceeds of his art.