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Gdal Saleski is himself a cellist, now with the New York Symphony. Press notices quoted in his own biography name him an artist of "graceful style which he is able to suit to many different moods." Writer Saleski can make no such claim. His sketches are cut and dried, peppered sparsely with long-familiar anecdotes. His enthusiasm for every Jew has robbed him of his discrimination, defeated his own humble purpose of segregating them. Superlatives are plentiful as periods. Elman, for instance, "alone can produce that broad, wholesome, spiritual tone which is characteristic of his playing and is so representative of the spirit dominating the long-suffering sons and daughters of his race." His tone "has been accepted as the standard by which violinists are measured." Heifetz is "the greatest technical genius of the violin of the present day." Kreisler is "the King of Violinists. Hats Off!"
*FAMOUS MUSICIANS OF A WANDERING RACE—Gdal Saleski — Block ($5).