Music: Harlem Prodigy

Of 103 piano pupils who entered the annual tournament conducted in Manhattan by the National Guild of Piano Teachers, youngest this spring was Philippa Duke Schuyler, 4, a Negro child who blithely played ten compositions, six of them her own. Reward for superior playing is a gold seal certificate, a place on the Guild's national roll of honor. Seven of the contestants were so rated last week and among them 4-year-old Philippa Schuyler.

Prodigious at more than music is this Harlem-born daughter of a white mother and a coal-black father (TIME, Aug...

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