The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.

and Maria were both christened there and the couple financed Efrem through an Episcopal boarding school in New Hampshire. Her daughter Marcia Davenport was the child of her first marriage (to Bernard Glick a dentist - ???). Gluck was a founder of the American Woman's Association.

Alma Gluck (May 11 1884 – October 27 1938) was a Romanian-born American soprano one of the world's most famous female singers at the peak of her career (circa 1910).