Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1915 — The Left Hand. [ARTICLE]

The Left Hand.

If —after various reports —we are to believe that it is the left arm, and not ill the right that Kreisler is wounded, this is no cause for congratulation from his audiences. The violinist’s left hand has the "beau role.” When Charles Reade was pleading vigorously for the restoration of the left hand to equal honor, he liked the public to guess what two marvelous things were done by a trained left hand greater than anything boasted by the right. It turned out that one was the work of the famous left hand of a pugilist famous in that day, Tom Sayers, and the other was the fingering of a great violinist. But the pianist Thai berg also “put in his left” to the amazement of the concert room.— I London Chronicle.