Local music-lovers have a rare treat in store for them in November.
The well-known pianist and teacher Prof. B. S. Zakharoff, and his young but talented pupil Master Vladimir Havsky—whose appearance with the Municipal Orchestra was nothing short of a triumph—will give a concert in the Lyceum Theatre, playing concurrently on two pianos. They will render two suites of S. Rachteristically enough, a bar girl must often listen to solemn promises of finding them jobs in offices, uttered by men of the most impressive appearance. If she confesses that she knows nothing of typewriting, shorthand or book-keeping, the guest, in his exalted mood, is invariably filled with the brightest optimism and assures her that such details can be mastered in two or three months.
Leaving the bar it does not take him long to forget his promises. Work in a bar with the better class of clientele maninoff and two of Arensky.
Just returned from a business trip to America, Mr. G. M. Klebanoff tells that all over New York—in restaurants, in tramcars, in the streets—one hears the Russian tongue. Russian doctors who have passed the neces-but the lot of Russian engineers is a harder one as in America there is a surfeit of men with technological $ dt knowledge. Thus many Russian engineers work as insurance salesmen may seem interesting at first, but quickly tires the organism. The noise, the late hours, the cigarette smoke and the quick succession of impressions make nothing seem so desirable as rest and quiet.
Prof. A. J. Berdnikoff, who two or take other jobs. Mr. Klebanoff tells that Dr. N. A. Pehelkin, who left Shanghai for California eight years ago, has an excellent practice in San Francisco and has bought a house. years ago arrived in Shanghai from Paris where he worked in the Pasteur Institute, is leaving for Harbin to continue his research work. In prerevolutionary Russia Prof. Berdnikoff was the Director of the Bacteriological Institute, and his books were known to the whole scientific world. While in Shanghai Prof. Berdnikoft worked in the Medical Analysis Laboratory.
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