Rosary Man

A song whose sale has neared the four-million mark would be an enviable memorial for any composer but in New Haven last week still further tribute was paid the late Ethelbert Nevin, composer of "The Rosary," one of the most famed and most abused of all U. S. songs. A copper plaque, the gift of the Connecticut State Federation of Music Clubs, was set between the tall windows of the ivy-covered house where Nevin died 30 years ago. Mrs. Nevin, the composer's widow, went up from Manhattan to do the unveiling while neighbors recalled anecdotes about the pale, thin-faced man with the scraggly hair. Composer Nevin was only 38 when he died. He left Manhattan because of an acute nervous condition, went to New Haven to be near his son Paul (now in the yacht business), then a student at a nearby military academy. One neighbor, a Flora Calhoun, recalled that as he sat at the piano he always kept a flower, usually a single narcissus, before him. "Narcissus" is the name of Nevin's most popular piano composition.

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