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Show IiftU ! IbbI I b 4ML Jw Iff' I xMs 4U. M IbbI m jcocmn Jul Anothor Polish violinist Is attracting tho nttentlon of tho music lovers ot America. This rival ot tho great Kubcltk Is named Jaroslav Koclan, and already society Is divided Into camps, each loudly proclaiming Its fnvorlto tho king ot violinists. Ono of tho foremost fore-most of American critics has this to say of Koclan's playing: "Is ho as great as Kubcllk? To com-paro com-paro may not bo good form, either critically crit-ically or socially, but tho query Is but n natural ono, for nationality and musical origin ns well as managerial advertisement, had associated tho two young Bohcmlnn violinists so closely In public mind that comparison was unavoidable. The prcprndernnco of opinion seems to bo thnt Koclan is not Bftl so great an Is Kubcllk. ftBfl "A moro exact estlmato would prob- f BBft ably bo found In tho statement that I Bfl Koclan Is as great as Kubcllk In cer- Jj BBf tnln things, and different from him In Bft others. Technically, ho Is tho oqual ot I Bft his rcmnrkablo predecessor thcro was I 'Bft evident In his wdrk that samo abso- ' Jftftfl Into and astounding mastery ovor tho i BBfl mechanics ot his Instrument, the samo j Bft unerring accuracy, tho samo enso and1 f 'Bftfl dexterity that mado Kubollk's playing S !BBJ a thing novcr to be forgotten. And ho 1 Bftjl hns. It anything, an even grcator iftBJ beauty ot tone his tono being larger 2 ftBl and fuller than was that heard from vSft Kubcllk when hero last season. And i BBJ yoi. Koclan docs not affect his listen- 'Bft ors as did bis fellow countryman. IvBBl "Thcro Is tho samo dlfforcnco In the I Bft playing ot tho two violinists thnt thoro I (Bft Ic In tholr personal appearance and 1 'BBJ personality. Kubcllk had about him a s'iBBI suggestion of nervous onorgy; Koclan I Bft Impresses ns calm almost to tho point I'Hj of tho phlegmatic. Kubollk In move- " iftBJ ment was almost awkward; Koclan , 'Bft has the gracoful easo of a man of tho iftBJ Bft |