Asheville, N.C., May 11—Ruth O’Shaughnessy, little blind piano artist of this city, who was last week a guest of the New York Kiwanis club, returned to the city today exultant over the reports of her success in the metropolis.
According to local business men who accompanied the girl, the meeting at which she played was one of the most thrilling affairs of a lifetime. Hundreds of men, choked with emotion, could find no vent other than tears for the feeling which her playing aroused, and after her performance they pledged themselves to do everything in their power to aid her on the road to success.
Music critics of Gotham, usually very chary with their praise, were loud in praise of the girl’s talent, according to reports they brought back here.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, May 12, 1926
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Ruth O’Shaughnessy would grow up to become a successful classical pianist. She studied music at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, was a student of Grace Potter Carroll and performed with various orchestras in New York and the South.
I thought using the name “Gotham” for New York City began with Batman comics, but the New York Library says the nickname originated with the author Washington Irving, who lived in the city while writing his Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle stories.
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