Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1914 — TOO HIGH-FLOWN FOR KING [ARTICLE]

TOO HIGH-FLOWN FOR KING

Frederick VII. of Denmark Unable »to Appreciate Sentiment That Was Part of Violinist's Being. In writing of her experiences in. America, Madame de Hagermann-Lin-dencrone tells of the arrival at Cambridge of Ole Bull, the famous violinist: , “Ole Bull (the great violinist) has taken James Russell Lowel’s house in Cambridge. He is remarried and lives here with his wife and daughter. He has a magnificent bead, and that broad, expansive smile which seems to belong to geniuses. Liszt had one like it “He and Mrs. Bull come here often on Sunday evenings, and sometimes he brings his violin. Mrs. B. accompanies him. and he plays divinely. There is no violinist on earth that can compare with him. There may be many who have as brilliant a technique, but none who has his feu aacre and the tremendous magnetism which creates such enthusiasm that you are carried away. The sterner sex pretend that they can resist him. but certainly no woman can. “He is v«7 proud or showing tbs

diamond in his bow, which was given him by the king of Sweden. “He loves to tell the story of King Frederick VII. of Denmark, who said to him: ‘Where did you learn to play the violin? Who was your teacher?’ “Ole Bull answered, ‘Your majesty, the pine forests of Norway and the beautiful fjords taught me!’ , "The king, who had no feeling fa such high-flown sentiments, turned tc one of his aides-de-camp and said, ‘Sik ken vrovl!’ —the Danish for ‘What rub blsh!”*—Harper's Magazine.