EMIL G. KLARMANN, THE MAN 57 later organizing and playing in a chamber music group at Halle. On arrival in the United States he joined the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and stayed with it for about ten years. Today one rarely finds him at home without hearing the strains of music of some kind playing on the phonograph. If it is an organ toccata by Bach raising the roof, one knows that he has had a trying time of something. But if it is a Brahms string quartet, then all must have been pretty well and pleasant. His excursions into the musical world give him mental purification..When one asks him what composer and music he likes best, the reply is quick and certain--Brahm's chamber music. Actually it isn't instrumental music alone that he likes, for voice in all of its uses holds great appeal as well. While his favorite opera is "Tristan und Isolde" (having seen and heard it from both sides of the opera house), his taste in music and opera is truly catholic, embracing everything from the earliest Italians to the most modern Russians. PHOTOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL Emil became interested in photography at around the age of nine or ten years. Truly, at this age, he even specified the kind of camera he wanted from his father--and got it. He installed a darkroom in his mother's kitchen, processing the film himself. In later years his travels throughout many parts of Europe, Canada, these many United States, most of the widely separated West Indies, Central and South America, gave him countless opportunities to practice photography. The thousands of color slides in his collection would raise the envy of no less than the editor of The National Geoo•raphic. I have seen some of them and in truth they are rich, fascinating, vivid, and per- fectly composed. In his travels he has been, at times, the guest of government officials who placed conveniences at his disposal, enabling him to follow his photographic and archeological desires. DANCING Believe it or not, Emil must be the best chemist dancer in the world. My wife and I (even our children) have seen him dance several times. He is the personification of ease and grace. Make it a foxtrot, waltz, tango, rhumba, samba, or calypsomthey are all easy to him. Last summer in Los Angeles at the New Statler Terrace Room, a famous orchestra began one of the rhythmic Latin American dances. A lot of couples were on the floor-- and the Klarmanns. It was just a matter of time before they made room and formed a circle at the sides of the dance floor. My eleven-year-old daughter nodded to the dancers and asked, "Daddy why can't you dance like Dr. Klarmann ?"

58 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS Emil has been mistaken for Arthur Murray in Washington, and given a particular round of applause in Argentina after doing the tango in its native land. As A SCHOLAR How a man gets relaxation from reading drama in its original Greek, I don't know. But Emil does, for he is a student of Greek as a language. Latin is another one of his pets. So don't go spouting Latin proverbs around him unless you know what they mean. He speaks. German and French freely and easily. We all know his punctilious English, always grammar perfect. He admits to speaking and reading Italian a little, but says he is much better at Spanish. Well, that is only seven languages. What he'll try next is probably Ubangi or some other easy language. He is a devotee of orthography, semantics, and sesquipedelianism. An associate, Dr. Dirtmar, tells of spelling and semantic bouts. Everyone tries to catch him on the meaning of an unusual word--and once in a while they do. His knowledge of bacteriological science has placed him at the top of the profession. His worthy contemporary, Dr. George Reddish says "he can be plenty tough in professional debate, as those who tangle with him well know--he supports his arguments firmly--and under any and all cirJ cumstances." His contributions in the science of bacteriology are discussed by another here tonight, but I know they are many. Cosmetically speaking, I first met Emil Klarmann in the now defunct trade journal •Iromatics, in an article on lipstick manufacture published about 1931 which anticipated the regulations as to color certification covered later by the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. My respect for his ability was immediate, though it was ten years before I actually met him. He can write with casual authority on various cosmetic sub- }ects, but it is with much enthusiasm that he writes on sun-tan prepara- tions, antiperspirants, and estrogenic cosmetics. HOBBIES His principal hobby is music. This has already been reviewed. But he is quite a student of art with a very diversified interest. I recall, that on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his tenure at Lehn and Fink, an associate, Dr. Shternov presented him with a modern painting, rich in the lore and symbolism of his association with that company. I think he is an epicure with a gourmet's weakness when at the Blue Ribbon Restaurant on Forty-fourth Street, or at Villa Camillo on Fifty- fifth Street. His secret food passion is lobster. He is a connoisseur of