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BEN BERNIE

BEN BERNIE . . . the Old Maestro was Bernard Ancel May 32, 1893, the day he became one of the eleven little Ancels back in Bayonne, N. J. When it was decided that Ben was too frail ever to follow the family trade as a smith, his father decided he should be an engineer. His mother decided he’d become a violinist. So violinist he became. He gave a concert in Carnegie Hall at 14, and a year afterwards was teaching violin in a school. There’s a wife and son.