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Show Anecdote of Rubinstein. " La Starina, a Russian paper, teUs how in Rubinstein's earlier days he narrowly-escaped narrowly-escaped being sent to Siberia. Ho played before the Czar Nicholas in the house of Count Wielhorsky, and on returning home lost his passport. A day or two afterwards he was arrested and brought before Gen. Galahoff, then chief of police, who informed the prisoner that be declined to believe anybody's evidence evid-ence of his identity, even that of the count. Rubinstein persisted that he was mere musician, and as one of the subordinate sub-ordinate police officers' knew something about music the two were sent to try matters over on a dilapidated piano. The test proved satisfactory, and the general, remarking that "the prisoner was apparently a musician," gave bint a permit for three weeks. |