Einstein Fiddles

Corona-haired Scientist Albert Einstein looks more like a concert violinist than most concert violinists do. To many a ruthless young mathematician, fiddling is the best thing Oldster Einstein does nowadays. In any event, he fiddles well enough to be heard in public. One sleety afternoon last week he made one of his rare semi-public concert appearances, in his adopted town, Princeton, N. J. Two things prompted gentle Dr. Einstein to brave reporters and photographers: he thought most of his audience would be children, whom he likes; the occasion was a benefit for the American Friends Service Committee's work for British refugee children.

Dr. Einstein played a simple program sitting down: two movements of a Mozart sonata, an Indian song and a "Russian Dance" by Frida S. Bucky, a Bach minuet for an encore. His able accompanist--pretty Mme. Gaby Casadesus, wife of Concert Pianist Robert Casadesus (unpronounceable, rhymes roughly with "has a canoe")--rippled discreetly at the piano. Dr. Einstein proved that he could play a slow melody with feeling, turn a trill with elegance, jigsaw on occasion. The audience applauded warmly. Fiddler Einstein smiled his broad and gentle smile, glanced at his watch in fourth-dimensional worriment, played his encore, peered at the watch again, retired. The refugee children stood to get about $200.

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