VALUABLE VIOLIN STOLEN
Huberman’s Stradivarius
DISAPPEARANCE FROM DRESSING-ROOM (Received March 1, 6.30 p.m.) New York, February 29. A Stradivarius violin, which is insured for 30,000 dollars, was mysteriously stolen from a dressing room at the Carnegie Hall to-night, while the owner, Bronislaw Huberman, Polish violinist, was giving a concert in the State Auditorium with another instrument. He had been playing the valuable violin shortly before and the. stage watchmen are at a loss to explain how a thief could have got behind the stage, much less 5 entered the musician’s dressing room.
Despite the loss, and the presence of numerous police, Huberman finished his recital. He is of the opinion that the thief had no knowledge of musical instruments as he left six bows valued at 1500 dollars each.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 134, 2 March 1936, Page 9
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129VALUABLE VIOLIN STOLEN Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 134, 2 March 1936, Page 9
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