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comic opera, “Tumble Inn”, (a Broadway success) in thirteen hours. How does he do it? Largely because his mind thinks musically almost all of his waking hours. He can turn on the music just as an ordinary mortal turns on the electric light”, writes one musical critic.

MR. RUDOLF FRIML.

Often he merely improvises on a recording piano, and then has the music transcribed to the printed page. It is his practice to have printed at the end of his recital programs a number to which never a note was written. When the time comes for the number to be played, Friml sits down to the piano and begins to improvise to the inexpressible delight of his hearers.

A good story to this effect is told