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Carnegie Professor in Prague.
Professor Marston Taylor Bogert recently arrived in Prague as the first visiting Carnegie professor of International relations to Czechoslovakia. He will lecture during the Winter semester to the advanced and graduate students at the Prague University on Organic Chemistry. A series of public lectures are to be given by Professor Bogert.
John Kubelik in Paris.
The world-famous Kubelik, a Czech violinist, scored another great triumph at his concert given at Paris on the 4th of last month. With him appeared his daughters, Anna and Mary Kubelik. Kubelik played several of his own compositions and followed them by works by Paganini and Sarasate. At the end of the concert the audience gave Kubelik a tremendous ovation. The Misses Kubelik played compositions by their father and by Bach. The accompaniment was provided by the Paris Opera Orchestra.
A. L. Maresh, Composer, Celebrates.
Fifty friends of A. L. Maresh, composer, pianist, politician, and president of the Cleveland Music Trade Association, sang his praises last month at a dinner given in honor of his fiftieth birthday, at Hotel Winton.
Maresh, who has composed more than 150 songs, yesterday recounted some of the events of his five decades. He started composing when he was 16, and at 17 he led the Great Western band of 100 pieces when it played one of his marches in the Grays armory.
His father, a Czech, was a violinist. A. L. Maresh plays cornet and piano and has traveled over the United States, Mexico and Canada, giving piano concerts in every city of more than 10,000 population. He has played for two presidents, McKinley and Harding, and his compositions have been played all over the world.
Czech Scientist Lectures in London.
Prof. Bohumil Nemec of the Botanical Institute of Prague University had been invited by the London University to deliver a lecture upon “Symbiosis, Parasitism and Plant Immunity”, a field in which he has done much original work. The lecture was given on October 28, in the botanical theatre at University College before a large audience. Prof. F. W. Oliver, who introduced Prof. Nemec, reminded those present that the lecturer had not only conducted important researches on fungi, on wound reactions and on the relations between gall insects and plants, but still found time to edit the scientific journal “Vesmír” and even to undertake the duties of a senator.
Compiler of English-Czech Dictionary Dies.
V. A. Jung, Czech author and former professor at the Prague University, died last week in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. Jung compiled an English-Czech dictionary, which is considered the best of its kind.