Efrem Zimbalist
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Efrem Zimbalist was a Russian and American concert violinist, composer, conductor and director of the Curtis Institute of Music.
Zimbalist with his violin, c. 1915 – c. 1920
Zimbalist and Alma Gluck
Alma Gluck and Zimbalist in photo dated 1915
Mary Louise Curtis
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Mary Louise Curtis was the founder of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She was the only child of the magazine and newspaper magnate Cyrus H. K. Curtis and Louisa Knapp Curtis, the founde
Efrem Zimbalist
…famous American soprano Alma Gluck and they toured together for a time. She died in 1938. In 1943 he married the Curtis Institute of Music's founder, Mary Louise Curtis Bok, daughter of publisher Cyrus Curtis and Louisa Knapp Curtis, and 13 years his senior. Although he continued to consider himself ethnically Jewish, he…
Mary Lewis Curtis
Mary Louise Curtis Branch, Settlement Music School, 416 Queen St., Philadelphia.
Mary Louise Curtis Bok donated the property for the Camden Public Library to the town of Camden, Maine in 1916