New Dean for Curtis

Glamour invests the names of music's greatest pedagogs. But the routine work of running musical institutions is usually in the hands of persons who, though able and efficient, are not well-known to the general public. Such a man is Henry Bellamann, 49, who was appointed dean of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia last week. Tall, dark, long-haired, he is a capable pianist and lecturer, was dean from 1907 to 1924 of the School of Fine Arts at Chicora College for Women in Columbia, S. C. During the year 1928-29 he substituted for Professor George Sherman ("Dickey") Dickinson in music courses at Vassar Collegeildings in fashionable Rittenhouse Square, will take care of the curriculum, edit the Institute's monthly Overtones. Like his predecessor, Dean Grace H. Spofford who resigned to do radio-educational work, he is subordinate to Director Josef Hofmann who also heads the piano department. The Institute was founded in 1924 by Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok. Other department heads at Curtis: oldtime Soprano Marcella Sembrich (ill last year, she was replaced by Soprano Queena Mario) and Baritone Emilio de Gogorza; Violinist Efrem Zimbalist; Cellist Felix Salmond; Viola Player Louis Bailly, onetime member of the Flonzaley Quartet (chamber music department).

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