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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2687, 5 February 1916, Page 6

We can quite sympathise with Mr. ]?. H. Legge, the London correspondent of the "Musical Courier," when he writes of the vast number of mediocre and worse concerts given under tho cloak of patriotism as follows:— "Even the hardy critic is sorely tried by the melancholy wail of tho charity singer, and I am perfectly persuaded that if these miserable folk would but pool the money that their concerts cost, pocket their inordinate vanity, and pay over the said money the hospitals would bo-tho gainers, Certainly the critics would 1 They, poor follows, are .generally expected to attend tho concerts because'if they do not then some un-, learned or ignorant person, a friend perchance of tho! editor, may slip ill and writo burning words about the most incompetent, which words are used for ever after 'as the "Daily Telegraph" said!' You can't get easily away from that risk l'.ere." Teresa Carreno, the great pianist, has been married no fewer than four times. Her first husband was. a Frenchman named Emile Saurot, her second. a 'IVliapietro (an Italian . Her third venture was Eugcn D'Albert (who is a Scotchman, by the way), and her fourth and present is another Tagliapietro, a brother of the second husband Madame herself is a Venezuelan by birth, a cosjnoDolitau hx adwtfioiv>