Fiddling for Friends

Fiddling for Friends

Like a student cramming for an examination, Scientist Albert Einstein shut himself up in a room of Adolph Lewisohn's New York home one afternoon last week and practiced three hours on his violin. That evening Fiddler Einstein was to play in a concert for the benefit of his scientist friends in Berlin. Old Mr. Lewisohn made his servants tiptoe through the halls, kept mousey quiet himself, not once attempting to entertain his ever-so-important guest with the German folk-songs he dearly loves to sing.

Reporters were Einstein's chief worry. He was to play in Bach's Third Concerto for Two Violins, Beethoven's Allegretto for Piano, Violin and 'Cello, Mozart's G Major Quartet. He did not want any "funny business" in the papers, to have it said that his head wagged this way and that, that he flourished his bow or held it pinched. The newshawks, in evening dress for the occasion, agreed to behave. But afterward they reported that Einstein is a capable fiddler, that he became so absorbed in the music that with a far-away look he was still plucking at the strings when the performance was all over. Present were 264 New York notables who paid $25 apiece for their seats. Fiddler Einstein earned $6,600 for his Berlin friends.

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