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Show PIANIST JAILED IN CHECK CASE Gives Worthless Paper To Friends and Business Houses, Charge ST. LOUIS. Mo.. Dec. IB (By International In-ternational News Service ) Joshua Menzlcs Van Zandt, 23 years old. pianist of no mean ability, who lay's claim to parentage of a former prominent promi-nent Baltimore family, declares circumstances cir-cumstances were responsible for his abode In Jail hero tonight. The musician was arrosteid her todav to-dav charged with passing worthless cheeks on friends and business men. some of whom include prominent citizens citi-zens of St. Louis. Van Zondt says his father was a former mayor of Baltimore and a member of congress. His mother, according ac-cording to the pianist, was Marie Van Zcndt. for whom the famous opera, "Iyakme" was written She Was killed in Moscow In 1918 during a Bolshevist attack on a convent, he says. During the several weeks Van Zcndt has been here he has had association as-sociation with the niost prominent orchestra or-chestra conductors of the city. Througr these associations he has been entor-talncd entor-talncd in some of the best homes In St. Louis Of course, Von Zendt always al-ways would CaVOrahiS hosts with renditions ren-ditions i f grand opera selections, which wer' well received -;niu om hii iUDjuddTS dn da oj, clan needed i undo and police charge he passed among friends and busines: houses some worthless paper |