Jun-09-25
 | | MissScarlett: <Walter Chan suggests (personal communication) that 'Hy. Rosenbaum' of Manchester in the Aug. 1904 British Chess Magazine (p.315) is the 'H. Rosenbaum' of London in the Oct. 1904 British Chess Magazine (p.389), since he seems to disappear from Manchester chess columns after this. He could have moved from Manchester to London around this time.> http://www.edochess.ca/players/p669... |
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Jun-09-25
| | MissScarlett: <<MissScarlett: The identity of this chess editor for the London <Saturday Review>, whose column began in March 1905, eludes me.> According to the <Devon and Exeter Gazette>, 1906.01.09, p2: <Hampstead has beaten West London by 12½ to 5½. At No. 1 board W. Ward drew with R. P. Michelll; 2. Herbert Jacobs beat P. W. Sergeant; R. C. Griffith was also victorious at 3; while J. Mahood lost to H. Rosenbaum (chess editor of the "Saturday Review").>> Lasker vs NN, 1906 (kibitz #8) |
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| Jun-09-25 | | stone free or die: Also see mention of him moving from London to USA, perhaps in late 1906: https://books.google.com/books?id=E... (bottom of page) |
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| Jun-09-25 | | stone free or die: Maybe <Harry Rosenbaum>? From 1913:
https://books.google.com/books?id=q... Rosenbaum is a fairly common name (I imagine), so confirmation of a British connection is needed. |
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| Jun-09-25 | | stone free or die: Hy. = Harry does it not? |
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| Jun-09-25 | | stone free or die: There's an <H. Rosenbaum> in NYC by 1908... https://books.google.com/books?id=K... Well, enough for now... |
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| Jun-09-25 | | stone free or die: Well, almost enough, there's an entire gold mine H. Rosenbaum aka <Harry Moses Rowson> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal... was personal secretary for <Emanuel Lasker> during his 1906(~ I think) voyage to the US. |
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Jun-09-25
 | | jnpope: Apparently he was hanging out in Paris watching Marshall in 1912 (see first kibitz):
A G Conde vs Marshall, 1912
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| Jun-09-25 | | stone free or die: A whale of a story from WLS:
<The Life Story of David Lloyd George [an Ideal Film Company film] was made in 1918 about the only Welshman to become a British Prime Minister.But it wasn’t shown at the time because of a row that now seems bizarre and was started by a populist right-wing magazine. The magazine John Bull, which was founded by Horatio Bottomley, a jingoistic MP who was subsequently jailed for fraud, attacked the film before its release claiming that two executives of the company that made it were “Huns” or “Hun sympathisers”. In fact, the two executives of the Ideal film company, brothers Harry and Simon Rowson, had – as many others did – changed their surname from Rosenbaum to avoid vilification and suspicion as Germans. They were actually Jews of eastern European extraction.> https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/... |
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| Jun-09-25 | | stone free or die: <In October the trouble started. Horatio Bottomley, the rabble-rousing, influential owner of the nationalistic journal John Bull, began a campaign against the film. Essentially his line was that the film was a disgrace because it was being made by Germans. The Rowsons were Jews, real name Rosenbaum, and in Bottomley’s nakedly bigoted mind, Jews were equated with Germans. Bottomley’s campaign against the film (Ideal won a libel suit against him) brought a lot of unwelcome publicity, and may have added to a sense of awkwardness felt by some in the government at the production of a film lauding the achievements of the prime minister at the time of an impending general election (one took place in December 1918, just after the war ended). In the end, none of the evidence that we have really explains what happened next. The Ideal company were paid off, to the sum of £20,000 (around half a million pounds in today’s money), which was the cost of the film’s production – though no recompense for the anticipated returns. Lawyers for the government turned up, paid Ideal in twenty one thousand pound notes, took the negative away with them in a taxi – and that was the last that anyone saw of it, publicly at least. Someone in power thought it worth a lot of money to prevent the film from being shown, but to this day no one can really say why, and the documentary record (including a memoir written by Harry Rowson) is tantalisingly vague. ...
In 1994 the film was discovered. It was in a barn at the home of Viscount Tenby, David Lloyd George’s grandson. It was in pristine condition, though in an unassembled form. Considerable effort and ingenuity effort was required from the only recently-formed Wales Film and Television Archive to piece the film together. As the first sequences were constructed and shown to film historians and Lloyd George experts, the general reaction was astonishment. Instead of the quaint drama that, to be honest, we had been expecting, here was a film of skill and power, possessed of a fervour and a commitment to the issues of the day that were electrifying. The film had its premiere – literally so – on 5 May 1996 (precided by a showing on 27 April for an invited audience) at the MGM cinema, Cardiff, accompanied by the Cardiff Olympia Orchestra playing a score by Welsh composer John Hardy. Since that time it has had screenings around the world, usually with Neil Brand accompanying on piano, and it gained recognition as a unique classic. But there has been a huge struggle on the part of the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales (as they are now called) to get the film issued on DVD. Now, at last, with pseudo-orchestral score by Brand, it is available for all to see – and it is a film that demands to be seen.> https://thebioscope.net/2009/03/11/... Sounds like someone liked it. (I told you it was a whale of a story) |
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Jun-09-25
| | MissScarlett: Early film periodical, <The Bioscope>, of February 5th 1920, p.7, asks in a list of Pertinent Questions: <Whether it was Mr. Harry Rowson of Ideal, who beat Capablanca, the chess champion, at the Grand Central Hotel recently?> Unsurprisingly, the answer turns out to be yes. Capablanca's final simul on the British leg of his 1919-20 tour was organised by the Maccabeans Club on January 18th 1920. Capa scored +27 =1 -2. The only known game from the simul is Capablanca vs W Ward, 1920. |
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Jun-10-25
| | MissScarlett: Jewish World, June 6th 1902, p.206:
<Manchester Matters. [...] Chess News.It is rather interesting to note that although only two Jews, Mr. Harry Rosenbaum and Dr. Wahltuch, entered for the Lancashire Chess Championship, both found their way into the semi-final round. Curiously enough the draw bracketed them together, and the game has been awarded to Mr. Rosenbaum, who now plays in the final. Mr. Rosenbaum is a young player of great promise. Till a few weeks ago, when he resigned, he was President of the Literary and Debating Society in connection with the Manchester Jewish Working Men's Club, and Secretary of the Chess Club. Amongst famous masters whom Mr. Rosenbaum has beaten in simultaneous play are the late [?] Mr. Blackburne and Herr Teichman. [sic] His ambition is to form a representative Jewish chess club in Manchester. Dr. Lasker, who is now one of the mathematical tutors at Owens College, has practically retired for the present from active participation in the game, He is preparing a series of mathematical papers to deliver before the Royal Society.> Lasker lived in Manchester for most of 1901 and 1902, so he almost certainly became acquainted with Rosenbaum during this period. |
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