Hal Howick is described as a pseudonym of Fredrick H. Martins on page 1489 of the 1922 Catalog of Copyright Entries (listing of "Tulips (Two Lips)", music by Frank Thornton (pseudonym of Gustave Saenger), words by Hal Howick (pseudonym of Frederick H. Martens).)
Author of: String mastery; talks with master violinists, viola players and violoncellists; comprising interviews with Casals, Huberman, Macmillen, Erica Morini, Svečenski, the members of the Flonzaley quartet and others (1923) (at Hathitrust), and Violin mastery : talks with master violinists and teachers; comprising interviews with Ysaye, Kreisler, Elman, Auer, Thibaud, Helfetz, Hartmann, Maud Powell and others (1919) on
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